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Showing posts with label sewing cafe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing cafe. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
New Sewing Cafe opens in Birmingham!
Sheila-May opened the Birmingham School of Sewing in 2010, to share her knowledge of dressmaking, tailoring, bridal, and lingerie. Sheila-May has huge experience of the bridal business and has designed and made wedding dresses for many years. Birmingham School of Sewing offers a wide range of sewing classes, including soft furnishings, alterations, dressmaking, pattern drafting, corsets and knickers, tailoring and bridal. Also, regular workshops on getting to know your sewing machine and overlocker for beginners.
In August The Birmingham School of Sewing is opening it's doors every Tuesday and Sunday as a Sewing Cafe. The School has Janome sewing and overlock machines for you to use, on your unfinished sewing projects, or maybe something you have been meaning to start for ages. The sewing cafe will be open every
Tuesday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 12 midday to 3pm.
As well as the machines, you will have access to large cutting table, and professional pressing equipment. So, if you are a beginner or have been sewing a long time... why not have a day out with some friends... get creative and enjoy free tea and coffee at the same time??For more information, check out Birmingham School of Sewing website.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Make It @ Glagow
A couple of weeks ago, during my routine visit to Glasgow, I met up with the lovely Ashley who is the creator and owner of Make It. You may have heard about them in the sewing press, Ashley, who has always loved to create and make, set up her sewing cafe and workshops... and generally very gorgeous studio space towards the end of 2010, and it has gone from strength to strength.
Behind this door, is a wonderful space to be inspired and support to help you with your ideas and projects.
Ashley, seen here, has always loved sewing and crafts, and says "but found it time-consuming and uncomfortable to cut patterns and fabric on the living room floor. We figured other budding stitches might have exactly the same problem so we set up a space to work on your own projects and have some fantastic coffee and cake at the same time." and Make It was born!
You can't help, but feel at home the minute you walk in. There is a big working table for cutting out projects and clean and tidy sewing machine area (with of course Janome machines)...
and a comfortable sofa area to enjoy a cuppa and cake, or do a bit of hand stitching or knitting.
You can hire an area to work on your own projects, they charge £5 for one hour, £7.50 for two or £10 for three including use of the cutting space, dress forms, press and the other bits and pieces of sewing equipment. They have sharp cutting scissors, pins, coloured thread and chalk available too. If sewing's not your thing, there's also have a Singer double bed knitting machine and an Ashford Traveller spinning wheel on site too.
Behind this door, is a wonderful space to be inspired and support to help you with your ideas and projects.
Ashley, seen here, has always loved sewing and crafts, and says "but found it time-consuming and uncomfortable to cut patterns and fabric on the living room floor. We figured other budding stitches might have exactly the same problem so we set up a space to work on your own projects and have some fantastic coffee and cake at the same time." and Make It was born!
You can't help, but feel at home the minute you walk in. There is a big working table for cutting out projects and clean and tidy sewing machine area (with of course Janome machines)...
and a comfortable sofa area to enjoy a cuppa and cake, or do a bit of hand stitching or knitting.
You can hire an area to work on your own projects, they charge £5 for one hour, £7.50 for two or £10 for three including use of the cutting space, dress forms, press and the other bits and pieces of sewing equipment. They have sharp cutting scissors, pins, coloured thread and chalk available too. If sewing's not your thing, there's also have a Singer double bed knitting machine and an Ashford Traveller spinning wheel on site too.If your not ready to work on your own projects, Make It also run regular sewing workshops and classes, from Basic Sewing Techniques, Learn to Knit & crochet to making a skirt or apron.
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