In this fun and creative course, you'll learn how to use sashiko mending techniques to patch your jeans with elegance. You will learn the fundamentals of visible mending jeans, which uses simple stitches to create stunning patterns and designs on the cloth. A step-by-step demonstration and guidance on how to execute sashiko stitching on jeans will be provided. You must bring your own ripped jeans or work on the sampler provided by us. Join us for this enjoyable and relaxing course to experience the delight of visible mending jeans!
Sashiko is a beautiful form of embroidery that uses white stitches on an indigo blue background. Have a go at this beautiful and rewarding hand embroidery technique, which is all done with the simplest of stitches – running stitch. Together we will look at the basic patterns and you can choose one to make into a book cover to take home. This could be the start of something big. No experience necessary, all materials included.
4 day quilting workshop covering everything from tools, techniques, designing, measuring, cutting, stitching, wadding, binding, some history too. You will receive two feet for your machine, a book, and all the materials are included too
Join textile artist Tilly Tea Dance for a one day creative workshop. Using a barbed needle to fuse different fibres together you’ll learn how to use needle-felting and hand embroidery to create a stunning and one-off piece of artwork. No experience is necessary as Maxine will guide us all the way so you can take home a piece of work to be proud of. This is always a popular workshop so please book as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
A Whiter Shade of Pale with Chris Yates Using mono-printing techniques, stamps and stencils, and your chosen colours of paint, you will create an individual background which can then be used to create positive and negative images. These can then be stitched with hand embroidery resulting in a truely indivdual piece (or two). A word of warning this technique is addictive.
Are you looking for a sewing machine workshop nearby? Want to learn the fundamentals? Then visit the sewing machine workshop in London and enjoy the joy of stitching! This session will teach you everything from threading your machine and winding up the small bobbin to trying out different stitches and embroidering with your machine. This course is ideal for beginners who want to learn in an enjoyable and casual setting. Sign up today and let's start stitching!