Fabric Fun Craft Club – Rag Rugging
Have you ever thought about making a rag rug? This is a very old craft, and probably one of the earliest forms of upcycling, when reusing old clothes was a necessity, long before it was fashionable! One of the things I love about it is that it uses up the odd tiny scraps of fabric […]
March Club Night – Smocking
This month, we’re going to learn smocking. Not the ‘pretty dress’ smocking you may have worn as a child. We’re going to learn to do the sort of smocking which really manipulates the fabric, with no obvious stitches! We’re going to learn to sew a lozenge pattern, one of the simpler designs, so that we […]
February Club Night – Mini Quilt
February 24th is fast approaching, when we have our February club night. This month, we’re going to make a fun little quilt, using a Japanese Folded patchwork block. I saw these mini quilts on Pinterest some time ago and loved them. I’ve been thinking of making one for some time – and now is the […]
Designing your own fabric – colour
Colour is probably one of the most contentious issues in design. There is an element of subjectivity, fashion plays a part, and, in the case of fabric design, the fabric itself can cause ‘issues’. If you’re designing for digital printing, there is the added complication of transferring colours from a screen to fabric, which behave […]
Make Fabric Butterflies – January Club Night
Are you a fan of The Great British Sewing Bee? Did you see the episode a couple of series back, where one of the challenges involved ‘fabric origami’? (In other words, folding and manipulating the fabric to make a 3D effect) We’re going to have a go at this in January and February. We’re going […]
Handmade Christmas – Make Christmas Decorations
At our club nights in November and December, we’ll be making Christmas decorations. Come along and enjoy a bit of ‘me time’, whilst making decorations for your home. Our November club night is on November 18th, the December one is on December 9th, both at 8pm on Zoom. In November, we’ll make a felt gingerbread […]
Make a zipped bag decorated with block prints
Our next club night is on October 14th at 8pm on Zoom, when we will be making a zipped bag (for make-up, pencils, etc) which we will decorate with Indian block prints. Sign up now for a place. The cost is £20, which includes club night (when we make our bags), unlimited access to a […]
Second Free Club Night
We’ve held our first free club night, making a Tumbling Blocks coaster, and now we’re looking forward to our September free club night. This is going to be a bigger project (which we may not finish in one night!), making a skirt. This sort of project doesn’t happen very often! It will be held on […]
Free Club Night!
Welcome to the Fabric Fun Craft Club. As a general rule, we ‘meet’ once a month, usually now on Zoom. You sign up for each month’s club (or, sometimes, 2 months at a time, with the second month being a follow-on from the first.) I send you a box containing everything you need to make […]