So how many people enjoyed The Sewing Bee and are feeling inspired to get sewing? We have a few new sewing tutors joining us at The Making House this summer and some great new courses both for summer and autumn next year. I’m determined I’m going to get my machine out this summer.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s coming up  or for more details

check out our new Sewing Page or our Workshops Page

This Summer

Tanya Burdina

is our technical sewer, she is a professional dressmaker and creates her own patterns.

Sewing Basics is on Saturday 8th June

5 Week Dressmaking Course starting Thursday 12th June

Lynda Kinnard

of Rebellious Rags has extensive experience of working in creative textiles she’ll be teaching

Freehand Machine Embroidery course for us on Saturday 21st June

Lucy Renshaw

creates quirky upcycled interior products and will be showing us how to

Create Unique Upcycled Lampshades Saturday 12th July

This Autumn

Lynda’s back

sharing her love of recycling, weaving and rag rug making

Circular Woven Landscapes on Saturday 20th September

Lockerhooking  on Saturday 25th October

Mary Halbert

of Crazy Mary Crafts is  focusing on patchwork and quilting in the Autumn

Saturday 27th September and 11th October is an opportunity to

Expand your patchwork and quilting skills

Create a beautiful quilted Christmas wall hanging with Mary on Saturday 15th Nov

We run courses in jewellery, silversmithing, recycling, sewing and lots of one unique workshops by specialist tutors

For more details on our courses go to our workshops tab

Please get in touch if you’re interested but can’t make the dates shown or tell us what sort of things you’d like to do. It’s good to know what people are interested in doing so that we can put on more of what you like!