Description
Sat 8 August
Join our Hand Stitched, Quilted Project Pouches workshop, and learn how to turn treasured scraps in to something both beautiful and sustainable. Under the expert guidance of Eilidh Weir, you’ll learn traditional hand-stitching and piecing techniques. Grab your tiny odds and ends of fabric and create an abstract fabric collage, piecing together your hand stitched quilted pouch intuitively as you go. This scrap busting pouch has a multitude of uses! It’s the perfect place to keep needles, snips and craft supplies safe on the go, collate your charging cables on your trips, keep your cosmetics, your medicines, your jewellery safe, separate and store your craft projects … Personally, I’ll be using mine to carry my spoon carving kit around for all the summer camping trips!
This workshop celebrates the art of slow stitching, encouraging you to work mindfully with repurposed textiles and explore the beauty of imperfection. You’ll discover how to combine colour, texture and pattern while learning simple patchwork and quilting stitches that can be adapted for future projects.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or a seasoned sewer looking to reconnect with handcraft, this workshop offers a relaxing, sustainable way to create something meaningful from materials that might otherwise go to waste.
Join us and stitch your way towards a more sustainable, creative future — one patch at a time.
About Your Tutor:
Eilidh is a multidisciplinary artist and mending enthusiast. Her work in textiles brings together waste and pre-used fabrics with her love of composting and the creatures and plants encountered whilst growing food and building biodiverse gardens. She has a strong DIY ethic, always collecting materials and learning techniques for making. Everything that passes through their home is fair game for repairing, you’ll struggle to find a sock that hasn’t been patched or darned. Taking a zero waste approach, she saves all the scraps from her personal and community sewing projects, and uses them to create beautiful textile artworks that champion sustainability, inclusivity, and understanding across a broad range of issues including mental health awareness and support for the LGBTQ+ community.  She is passionate about mending and reducing textile waste and is keen to share these skills far and wide.
- All tools are provided for use at the workshop and materials are included in the course cost.
- Tea and coffee are provided but participants should bring their own lunch and utensils
- All of our classes are suitable for over 16s, younger crafters may be accommodated if accompanied by a participating adult but please contact us before booking
- If the workshop you were looking at is fully booked drop us an email and we’ll add you to the waiting list. We will add extra dates to our most popular workshops too, join the mailing list to be the first to know
- All of our workshops are held at Craft Central, High Street, Dunblane, FK15 0EE
- If you need to cancel or reschedule your workshop we need at least three weeks notice. Please read our cancellation policy before booking
