Posts tagged with "craft"
Let’s Stitch & Bitch
Tuesday 29th November
15 Queen Street, Colchester
Drop in from 6pm til late
This month we will be making something we all need in these winter nights - draft excluders. Co-ordinator Alex will be running the workshop providing patterns for you to use, adapt, or go wild and free style. You could make a dog, snake or classic long log shape. Stick to the pattern or adapt it to make a snake with a top hat, sausage cat or just stitch on a load of weird felt.
At Stitch & Bitch we invite you to get stitchin’, meet some local crafty ladies (and gentlemen) and have fun. We don’t mind if you’ve never sewn before or are a textile professional. The aim is to get people together, be creative and have a great night.
If you could bring along a fabric of your choice, we recommend vintage/retro for a true 70s feel. We will have odd fabric for you to help yourself with along with bits of felt, buttons and ribbon. We will also have tea, coffee, and music. Bring along your sewing machine if you like. Alex will have hers to whip your stuff through.
You can RSVP via our Creative in Colchester meetup here.
Green Fair
Saturday 5th November
Lion Walk Colchester
10am - 4pm
This Saturday Lion Walk will become all things green. Organised by the Green Party, the fair presents a wide range of activities - charity & craft stalls, activities for children, live music and refreshments served all day.
Try and stroll down Lion Walk to catch the fair, it’ll brighten up your day!
Contemporary Craft Crit Group
Wednesday 26 October - 30 Nov, 28 Dec, 25 Jan
10am - 12 noon
firstsite
We love craft and getting stuck in with other like minded folk. We have heard that firstsite are running a new Contemporary Craft Crit Group.
It starts tomorrow and will then be held monthly, always 10am – 12 noon in Meeting Room B. It’s a session for craftspeople who want to contextualise their work within current contemporary craft and art practices.
You are invited to bring along your work, get feedback from the rest of the group and discuss ideas with like-minded folk. It’s absolutely free but booking is essential, call 01206 577067 to book a space.
(photo: sugar-cookie)
Stitch & Bitch with us
Tuesday 25th October
15 Queen Street, Colchester
Drop in from 6pm til late
We invite you to join us this Tuesday evening to come try out a little hand sewing (or sewing machine if you like) while we natter.
This month fifteen Queen Street co-ordinator Alex (Singyamatokun) will be teaching a Halloween inspired monster making master class. Based on Japanese character company Aranzi Aronzo you will be shown how to sew your own plush creature. Pick a fabric, construct a shape, sew on some legs, and create a beastie!
We will have some fabric for you to choose from, but if you have a certain monster in mind please bring your own.
This is an open drop in session, starting at 6pm. We will be here til late. We have everything you need - sewing machines, needles, thread. fifteen Queen Street will provide tea, coffee, biscuits and music.
If you have a personal haberdashery project you are working on, why not bring it along? Join us to meet some local crafty ladies (and gentlemen) and have an evening of getting your stitch on.
You can RSVP via our Creative in Colchester meetup here.
Beginners to pros are welcome.
(Photos: Singyamatokun)
Slack Space Olympic Craft Challenge!
To complement the Olympic Challenge of learning a number of different sports before the 2012 events are finished, Slack Space Colchester is a Creative Challenge!
Local artists and craftspeople will share their expertise and offer over 20 free workshops up to August 2012. To give everyone a fair chance there will be a selection of daytime, evening and weekend workshops. You could end up learning 5, 10 or even 20 new creative skills.
Each workshop is free, and successful participants will receive a coveted Creative Challenge Certificate issued by Slack Space. Plus selected work will be exhibited at a special exhibition in August 2012 where we will celebrate with our own ‘Closing Ceremony’.
The Slack Space Olympic Craft Club is curated by local artist Paula MacGregor.
To register for this exciting event simply email stating how many crafts you are challenging yourself to learn!
The Slack Space Olympic Craft Challenge will feature 2 free craft workshops a month. Dates of workshops below. Make sure you register to receive details of new workshops that will be coming up!
Venetian Masks - Rachel Brown Holy and Ivy Wreaths - Paula MacGregor Sock Monsters - Lisa Gorrod Knited Baubles and Beyond - Clare Sams Yule Time Yarns - Annie Howard Paula MacGregor - Festive Decorations (Unusla ideas for the table and gift wrapping)
Saturday 29th October, 11am - 2pm
Thursday 2nd November, 11am - 2pm
Sunday 6th November 2pm - 5pm
Friday 18 November 12 - 3pm
Wednesday 30th November 6pm - 9pm
Wednesday 7th December 11am - 2pm
Stitch and Bitch returns!
Tuesday 27th September
6pm til late
15 Queen Street, CO1 2PH
Stitch and Bitch returns! We invite you to join us next Tuesday evening to help sew and stitch some bunting for an exciting up and coming project.
The Hidden Kiosk project houses start up businesses and pop-up shops for local creative people. This month sees The Bike Guru Matthew Lawford, open it’s doors for three months with a community bike cafe and workshop. You can read more about the project on flexi member Jason Cobbs interview on OnionBagBlog.
To help making the opening of his event something truly special, we need your help to produce a few metres of bunting from some old unusual vintage fabrics.
This is an open drop in session, starting at 6pm. We will be here til late. We have everything you need - sewing machines, needles, thread. fifteen Queen Street will provide tea, coffee, biscuits and music.
If you have a personal haberdashery project you are working on, why not bring it along? Join us to meet some local crafty ladies (and gentlemen) and have an evening of getting your stitch on. Beginners to pros are welcome.
(Picture: Roblockness)
Stitch and Bitch this Wednesday
Wednesday 24 August
15 Queen Street, Colchester, CO1 2PH
4pm til late
If you are free Wednesday evening, we will be running a little Stitch and Bitch here from fifteen Queen Street.
We have an exciting line up of events and activities for the Colchester Free Festival this Saturday. Colchester Arts Centre has kindly lent us use of their Routemaster Bus and we have curated talks, workshops and even films to be shown throughout the day.
To make our old, well used bus really magical, we want to make cushions and bunting to brighten it up a bit.
Please pop in from 4pm, bring your own sewing machine if you can (no worries if not, we will have lots of needles and thread) and we will provide tea, coffee, biscuits and music.
We have 30 cushions to sew, triangles to cut and 20 meters of bunting to make. Beginners to pros are welcome. Come along to meet some other fellow crafty ladies (and gentlemen) and enjoy a good stitch and bitch!
Let Alex know if you want to come, bring a friend and call 01206 56288 if you have any questions.
Embroiderers Guild @ Layer Marney Tower
We went along to the end of exhibition celebration for the Embroiderers Guild at Layer Marney Tower.
They have been based in two rooms of the tower throughout August showcasing the best needle work, gold work and embroidery the guild has produced. Some were inspired by their visit to the tower earlier in the year, the rest, their own self instructed craft. Here are a few photos, but it was quite hard to capture the pure brilliance of the pieces due to lacking a steady hand and the harshness of flash.
A fabric wall housing some beautiful embroidery of colourful geometric shapes. 
Who doesn’t love Henry the 8th?
We were blown away by this structured embroidered chimney, inspired by the Layer Marney Tower. It’s hard to see but it had padding underneath the work so it had an amazing relief effect coming right out of the frame. Smoking.
Sadly the exhibition is now over but we wanted to post this blog entry to highlight the great work the Embroiderers Guild do. We would like to shout out a well done to Lesley Sams, Linda Watts and all the other crafty ladies involved for a fantastic exhibition.
The Embroiderers Guild run monthly morning meetings here at 15 Queen Street every last Saturday of the month. Join us for workshops on all sorts of crafts (not just embroidery) from silk work, gold work, to using foils and metalic fabrics. They are open to everyone and we recommend you come along to be introduced to a new craft or skill.
The next workshop will be Saturday 24th September 10am - 12pm, more info here. Hope to see you at 15 Queen Street getting crafty!
