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SUMMARY:Dressmaking 5 week course
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at Stitching Kitchen for a rejuvenating couple of hours of dressmaking every week. These sessions typically run in blocks of 5 weeks and are hosted on Wednesday Evenings for 2 hours. Over the weeks\, we’re creating a space dedicated to nurturing your sewing journey and providing you with some essential ‘me time’. \nBring along your current sewing project and benefit from the support you need to progress at your own pace. \nHelen will be there to guide you through any challenges you encounter with your project. From deciphering patterns to tackling fit issues\, interpreting instructions\, and making adjustments\, Helen is here to help. \nWhat you will learn/achieve \nYou can work on your own project at your own pace with an expert sewing tutor on hand to guide you through any challenges\nHelp with anything from understanding sewing pattern instructions to tackling fit issues\nConfidence to make progress in your own personal sewing journey\nWhat’s included \nTuition: full instruction and support in a friendly inclusive envornment. Small class size.\nUse of Pfaff and Janome machines in Stitching Kitchen’s fully equipped studio.\nTea and biscuits.\nAbout your tutor \nHelen is professionally trained in pattern cutting and costume design. Helen has spent years fitting wedding dresses and costumes to all body types. She has an encyclopaedic knowledge of dressmaking and shares her skills during weekly dressmaking sessions and garment sewing workshops. \nWhat to bring: \nJust bring yourself and your sewing project! \nStitching Kitchen has a well stocked haberdashery that is available to purchase during your workshop in case you need any notions to complete your project. \nPlease note that this workshop is held in our light and spacious first floor studio at Stitching Kitchen\, which is accessible by stairs. \nIf you have any questions\, please feel free to get in touch.
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/dressmaking-5-week-course/
LOCATION:Stitching Kitchen\, Stitching Kitchen\, Top Station Road\, Brackley\, NN12 7UG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Wellbeing,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Tinsmithing Festive Pierced Lantern - 2 Day Course
DESCRIPTION:Course Overview\nMake winter evenings brighter by making your own traditional pierced candle lantern from tinplate. \nOn this two-day course at the beautiful Stanwick Lakes\, you will learn how to pierce patterns into tinplate\, form it into shape and use various joining methods to create your own traditional tinplate lantern. These traditional lanterns give a bright light when the door is open\, and cast decorative patterns onto the wall through the piercings. \nThe course will start with an introduction to the tools and methods used in traditional tin-smithing. On the first morning you will learn by practising cutting with tin snips\, using dividers\, and marking gauges. To introduce forming shapes in the tinplate you will make wall hanging candle sconce. During the first afternoon we will learn piercing and discuss designs. You will then make the pierced barrel and cone top for your lantern. At the end of day one you will understand the methods and tools used in traditional tin-smithing. \nDay two starts with finishing off any piercing and then cutting out all the other tinplate parts required to construction your own pierced lantern. You will form the shape of the lantern using traditional stake tools\, mallets and your hands. As you progress through the stages of constructing your lantern you will learn how to solder tinplate using traditional fluxes. \nAt all times during these processes your tutor will be available to help or advise. At the end of day two you will have your own tinplate pierced lantern with your own design of piercing and a hanging wall sconce. \nThe course takes place in a purpose-built oak framed craft barn at Stanwick Lakes\, a protected Nature Reserve and Wetland of International Importance covering 750 acres. \nYour tutor is John Wills\, one of the last three professional tinsmiths in Britain. In 2022\, as part of a Heritage Crafts Association project to rescue tinsmithing\, he trained under master tinsmith Karl Schmidt (Dakota Tinworks\, USA) and subsequently built a new tinman & brazier workshop to keep the craft alive. He is a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Tinplate Workers Alias Wire Workers of the City of London.
URL:https://discover-northamptonshire.co.uk/event/tinsmithing-festive-pierced-lantern-2-day-course/
LOCATION:Stanwick Lakes\, Stanwick Lakes\,\, Stanwick\, Northamptonshire\, NN9 6GY
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