Welcome to the monthly sewing ‘blog’ with Bridget! Bridget Goodhead is our sewing tutor here at The Making House. Bridget is a retired teacher. For many years she taught Design Technology… Read more Go Christmas Crackers with Bridget! →
This year for our Christmas workshops we’re Festive Felting! Our felting sessions always go down well at Craft Club, so we thought we’d develop some set projects for Christmas. Emma… Read more Festive Felting →
So I’m not doing too well at the blog posts, but I have been adding to the more permanent pages of the website, in between making new ranges of jewellery,… Read more Coming Up This Autumn →
Our Autumn course dates are now online. For now we’ll be focucing on jewellery making, silversmithing. I began developing my jewellery and silversmithing skills after setting up Bags2riches in 2001; over the years I’ve learnt lots and began delivering jewellery making courses in 2008. At the moment our focus is on basic skills, but hopefully we’ll be able to get some guest tutors in to do workshops in more technical areas of silversmithing. Silversmithing workshops Anna delivers a variety of basic silversmithing courses at The Making House, allowing people to… Read more →
Last Sunday was our first sewing workshop with Tanya. Tanya Burdina is our new dressmaking tutor; she makes bespoke high end wedding dresses and is a highly qualified and very… Read more Our First Sewing Basics Course with Tanya →
This spring at Craft Club Emma and Julia taught us some new felting techniques. We do like a bit of felting, be it wet and dry! We did some basic… Read more Spring Craft Club Felting →
Craft Club has been running on Friday mornings now since September and it’s a really important bit of what we do here at The Making House. When I set up… Read more Craft Club Reflections →
Joelle Harris’ dressmaking course has proved really popular this autumn. This is a 5 week course designed to give you the skills to be able to tackle making clothes for… Read more Dressmaking Course and Sewing Club →