Fabric Flower Brooch Workshop Details:

Fabric Brooch Making with Fabric Nation. To book a place on this workshop click here: Tuesday 5th July 

 
Date: Tuesday 5th July
Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm (three hours)
Level: Beginners
Teacher: Gillian Elam
Price: £20
Maximum Class Size: 10 people

Delve into Fabric Nation’s stash of vintage, upcycled and contemporary fabrics and make beautiful brooches. In this workshop you can make several pretty styles of brooch, all deceptively simple to sew. Use them to brighten clothes or bags, wear as a hair accessory or corsage, or make them as gifts for lucky friends. Pair up flowery, polkadot or striped prints, 50s barkcloth and US quilting cottons with vintage buttons, trims and felts to create unique and colourful brooches.  These brooches are deceptively simple to make, perfect for the beginner, and offer more experienced participants a chance to explore different techniques and work with a range of different materials.
Gillian will provide step-by-step tuition in different brooch making techniques and one-to-one help for those with little sewing experience.
At the end of the workshop, you will have learnt several brooch-making techniques and made a collection of brooches, hairclips and alice bands.  Participants make on average two to three brooches during a three-hour workshop.
All materials are provided, including home baked cakes.

About Gillian:

Give me a pair of flowery curtains and I will stitch & snip, glue & gather. I dream of fabrics from the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The inside of my head is wallpapered with them. Call it DIY, indie crafting or neo-craft. I love it and have done it since I needed a dress to wear to a gig that rocked. The dress became a bag, the bag became a cat, the cat became a hair slide.
http://www.fabricnation.co.uk/

Made By Jade Designer Feature:

About Made By Jade:

I am a jewellery designer-maker, I have been making for around six years now. I began selling my work in a small gallery in Bath, whilst studying for my BA (Hons) in Creative Arts. Since then, my designs have developed and have been selling in a selection of shops and galleries in the South West of England and also for one year in a gallery in Barcelona. I am now living and working in London and making jewellery as often as possible.

Inspirations:

I am mostly inspired by fabrics. I have a vast collection of printed cottons, which I constantly draw inspiration from. I also enjoy the recycling aspect of my work, turning something that is going unused back into something precious. A large quantity of the collectable items that I use, have been gathered from car boot sales and charity shops.

Best Sellers:

I could not name a best seller, as each piece that I make is unique.

We Make Summer Fair:

Customers will expect to see an array of necklaces and earrings, made from both new and recycled fabrics, in a variety of colours and prints. These fabric pieces are usually machine sewn and placed alongside collectables such as freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones, glass beads and recycled watch mechanisms.

You’re Sites: www.jadeogdenjewellery.blogspot.com

BagatellesandCo Designer Feature:

About Bagatelles&co:

I grew up in sunny Tunisia, by the beach, in a house full of plants, paintings and beautiful fabrics, spending my childhood drawing, reading, or dressing up in my mum’s clothes with my sister…
I then moved to Paris to study Textile and Fashion design. After a while, longing for new adventures, I decided to move to London and after a degree at Central Saint Martins College, I worked several years as a freelance Designer/Tailor.

Bagatelles&co started last summer when I was desperately looking for a nice evening bag for a wedding I was attending. I couldn’t find anything beautiful yet affordable so I ended up making my own…! I haven’t stopped making bags since then!
Trying to make my products the most eco friendly possible, I source mostly from vintage silks, remnants and end of rolls of tie silk, brocade, furnishing textiles and Liberty cotton, thus avoiding waste.

Inspirations:

I combine my experience as a Pattern cutter and textile Designer to create purses and clutches with unique shapes associated to vibrant colours and beautiful fabrics. My designs are created for a playful and feminine girl who enjoys life, daydreaming, and breathes a kind of sweet elegance.

Best Sellers:



Spring garden Gigi purse. It has been my best seller so far. It represents very well bagatelles&co with its cute and voluptuous shape associated to bright and feminine colours, sweet and elegant at the same time.

We Make Summer Fair:

Visitors will find change purses, clutches and satchel bags as well as some brooches, earrings and hair accessories…

Websites:

Etsy shop: www.bagatellesandco.etsy.com
Blog: www.bagatellesandco.blogspot.com