Meet like minded sewing friends and come and learn a new craft with us in Leicestershire!
Would you love an opportunity to meet up and chat whilst enjoying evening of crafts? Each month we’ll share a taster of a new craft for you to try!
Sewcial Fridays are a fun, relaxed evening where we can all try new crafts and learn new skills. Freya and Sarah will lead the sessions with occasional guest makers joining us, sharing different handicraft skills, including hand embroidery, rag rugging and crochet.
What do I need to bring?
- Nothing, everything is provided
What will be provided?
- Materials, yarn, hooks etc
- Tea, Coffee and Cake
Come along and bring your friends for a fun Friday Sewcial!
Workshop levels explained
You will find our workshops categorised in to levels. These are to help you know which workshops are suitable for you based on your current amount of experience behind a sewing machine.
Our levels are designed to help you choose a project that isn't too difficult for you, but we encourage you to be brave and try something new too. Talk to us if you need further advice about which level is suitable for you.
Children aged 11+ and teenagers are welcome to attend workshops with an accompanying adult , providing they have either come to our Start as you Mean to Sew on workshop, or a suitable level of experience at home or school.
This covers our Start as you Mean to Sew on workshops, which is designed to build your confidence behind a sewing machine. This workshop is ideal for absolute beginners and those whose sewing skills may be a little rusty.
We also list any other skills workshops suitable for beginners under Level 1, including Rag Rugging, Macrame and Crochet.
Skills building workshops are designed to build your confidence and introduce you to new skills, such as inserting zips, working with bias binding and basic patchwork. They are suitable for people who have completed our beginners workshop or have some recent experience sewing independently.
These workshops are aimed at more confident sewers, who have completed a few projects previously, and also includes our Introduction to Dressmaking workshop. This level is suitable for people who have some experience behind a sewing machine, and want to branch out and try something new.
Our workshops are aimed at people with some dressmaking experience, who may have completed our Dressmaking for Beginners course, however, this isn't a necessity. These workshops will cover more challenging dressmaking skills, while aiming to demystify them and build your confidence.
Experienced Dressmaking
These workshops continue to build on previous dressmaking experience and will offer larger challenging projects with the support of a experienced teacher. Level five workshops will include garments such as jeans, swimwear and coats.
