Festive Taster: Free-Motion Embroidery & Appliqué for Festive Cards

2-hour workshop // Cost: £40 // Instructor: Cassandra Belanger // Saturday 6th December // 10am-12pm // This workshop is part of The Stitchery Festive Open Studios Weekend

Free-motion embroidery is a little bit like drawing with your sewing machine; the normal constraints are removed, leaving you free to move your fabric around and make all sorts of wonderful patterns. A liberating experience for seasoned sewers, and bags of fun for everyone, regardless of your sewing experience!

In this workshop, sewing expert Cassandra Belanger will be showing you how to decorate a festive card with appliqué and free-motion embroidery techniques. Students will then turn their hand to making festive free-motion motifs. These can be used to make cards, as tree decorations, or as part of a gift. And who knows, once you start using free-motion embroidery techniques, you may just decide to go home and make all your festive gifts this way!

The setting for this course is the relaxing, social atmosphere of The Stitchery Studio as part of The Stitchery’s Festive Open Studio weekend. Visit our studio, try out a sewing taster session and browse the fabrics and finds from our creative friends and neighbours.

This is a Pure Beginner level course, which means it's suitable for absolute beginners, or anyone who wants to learn a new technique. The Stitchery studio comes fully equipped with a sewing machine for each student (you are welcome to bring your own if you like!).

More Info:

• During class tea and coffee will be available.
• All of our classes are suitable for over 18s, 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.
• If you need to cancel, we need at least two weeks notice. Please read our cancellation policy before booking.

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Cancellation & Course Fees Refund

Because of the popularity of our courses and the limited number of spaces available, we've now introduced a Cancellation & Refund Policy. If you cancel your booking 14 or more full days before the start date of your course or workshop, you will be refunded the balance of your fees. This is equivalent to your full course fees minus your non-refundable deposit.  

If you decide to cancel your place in less than 14 days before the course start date or during the course, a refund is not guaranteed. In this situation we shall review the circumstances of the cancellation before deciding on an appropriate solution.

If for any reason you change your mind and need to cancel your booking, please email us (info@[email protected]) immediately so that we can release your place to someone on the waiting list.

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