Highlights from Swadlincote

We rounded off this year's festival with the biggest and busiest weekend at Derbyshire Makes Swadlincote.

With the town's ceramics heritage and the stunning Sharpe's Pottery Museum, there were opportunities to get hands on with clay, at the potter's wheel with Derek Harbinson or making sculptural heads with the Skellet Brothers or coil kiln making or make and take workshops with Elaine Lim-Newton.

The National Forest brought Forest Crafts curated by Peter Wood with woodturning, willow weaving, live demonstrations and the Forest Makers' Market.

There was skeleton life drawing with Steph Coley and 'Helen Skeleton', Flower Bashing with Philippa Day, Eco-friendly art workshop - Treading Lightly with Sasha Archer making shoes from recycled fabric and card, String making with Katherine Parrish, Letterpress printing with Chris from the Smallprint Company, and even a Stop-Motion animation workshop led by Young Landscapers based on the connecting power of fungi's mycelium root networks in the forest. Plus poetry and collage workshops, demonstrations of traditional crafts and exhibitions.

In the Makory, Jenny Stevenson led drop-in workshops of Folded Paper Building and making an Industrial Shadow Box. For Dare to Dream, as well as banner making led by Sue Reddish, Abigail Wastie helped people to learn the basics of tapestry making.