Upcycling classes

I teach lots of classes to adults that involve learning new sewing skills and how to upcycle clothes both using hand and machine sewing. Some of my favourites are old shirts and t-shirts into cushions, infinity scarves and changing the style of the item.

When I am teaching embroidery or sewing machine skills I try to ensure that most of my materials are sourced at my local scrapstore, I can even get zips there. It is important to me to support the scrapstore as it is both great for the environment to repurpose unwanted items and they are a charity and I want to support the work as they do great deals for schools and other charities that want to do art and making.

I also run lots of sessions with children, this is something that I really love as I learnt how to make things from a very young age. Sometimes creativity and play comes a long way down the list of what our children should be doing but play is how children relate to the world and their imagination are the ideas of the future and there are also other skills involved in making such as problem solving, how things work, patience and developing manual dexterity. The children find a lot of joy in learning something creative and achievement in making their own ideas a reality.