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Making Futures – City & Guilds programmes in knitting and design start September – new website now live!

Picture of a hand-knitted, hand-dyed blanket made in ribbed squares designed by Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft & Design

City & Guilds accredited programmes in knitting - enrolments starting September and new website now live!

Picture of a hand-knitted, hand-dyed blanket made in ribbed squares designed by Debbie Tomkies of DT Craft & Design

After a few bumps in the road, we’re super-excited to announce (finally) that our first City & Guilds knitting programme will be enrolling its inaugural cohort of students next month.

The Introductory Creative Studies – Knitting will be open for enrolments from 14th September.

If you would like to find out more, you can download a prospectus and watch the intro video on the new website.

The Foundation programme syllabus has now been signed off and we are beavering away, putting together the material for our first intake. As this will take a little time we are aiming for enrolments from December with a start date in January (although, given the number of enquiries we will try to bring that date forward if we can!).

Both programmes are accredited by City & Guilds as an affiliate centre of Artybird Carnforth.

We’ll be running the programmes through our sister venture, Making Futures, and you can find out more about what that means over on the new site. Debbie will be teaching the two new programmes with Pete on hand for all the techy stuff so it will be the same familiar faces and personal service.

To find out more and so we can keep you up to date with programme details, sign-up dates and times, please complete the contact form below. We hope to hear from you soon!

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Debbie Tomkies

Debbie is a textile designer, hand-dyer, author and tutor with over 25 years' experience in her field. Debbie has 4 books and over 100 articles published in major magazines and welcomes requests for articles, how-to features, technical and research articles, video tutorials and books.

Making Futures

In addiiton to being a partner in DT Craft & Design, Debbie runs social enterprise Making Futures CIC, delivering a wide range of workshops, classes, Arts Award, Artsmark and City & Guilds accredited programmes. Debbie also offers business mentoring and start-up advice to new creative enterprises.

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We’ll be posting those stocking fillers and last-minute gifts (we’ve all been there!) for orders placed before 12.30pm on 23rd December. However, last posting date is 21st December so it may be that orders may not arrive in time for the ‘big day’. If you need a last-minute gift or you’re not sure what to get we do have gift vouchers in the shop!

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Thank you!

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Last but definitely not least, we wish you all a peaceful and restful festive break and hope to be able to say thank you in person in 2026!

Love, Debbie & Pete xx