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Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at £500. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Q: What ages is this class suitable for?
A: Adults & 12+ years. An adult must accompany any attending kids (the adult may observe for free).
Q: What's the cancellation policy?
A: Free to cancel or reschedule up until 7 days before the class
Q: How long does the class run for, and what's the price?
A: 3 hours, £65 per guest
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Enjoy some slow-stitching by hand at this traditional Kawandi quilt workshop in Deptford.
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Kawandi Quilt Making
A beautiful, mindful, slow-stitching technique
Each Quilt Is Unique
Colourful thread combines with patchwork pieces to create the whole quilt
Your Quilt Begins to Grow
Have fun choosing lots of individual patchwork pieces
Tools of the Trade
One of my many little tins!
A Rainbow of Coloured Threads to Choose From
We use Perle threads, either size 8, 10 or 12 depending on your own personal preference. I will explain all on the day
And Just Keep on Stitching
You'll soon start to see your quilt growing beneath your hands
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This class is not available for purchase
What you'll get
By the end of the workshop you'll have the beginnings of your own hand-stitched quilt to take away with you. You'll have the materials and the knowledge and skills to carry on and complete it at home.
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Knowledge required
No previous knowledge or skills are required.
What to bring
No need to bring anything, but if you have any special scraps of fabrics you would like to include, please bring them along.
Suitable for
This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, birthday or hen do.
Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 12 years old).
An adult must accompany any attending kids (the adult may observe for free).
This experience would also be a fun gift for her, gift for mum, Xmas gift or gift for couples.
Location
Something Good Workshops, From Platform 1 Of Deptford Station Or Next To SALT, London
On the ramp, a level above the main market yard. Find us via the ramp that starts at platform 1 of Deptford station and ends by SALT pizza pub off Deptford High Street
Your teacher
In a cosy corner of London, tucked between the hum of everyday life and the soft rustle of fabric scraps, there exists a small, enchanted world called Slow Stitch Whimsy.It began long ago, with a little girl in South Yorkshire who stitched an apron and baked fairy cakes for a country show. She didn’t win medals, but she won something far more enduring: a lifelong belief that imagination is a loyal companion, and that making things by hand is a kind of quiet magic.That girl grew into Michele - a maker who wandered through realms of paper mâché, embroidery, clay creatures, woolly inventions, and all manner of curious creations. Yet no matter how far she roamed, thread always tugged her home.Sometimes gently, like a whisper. Sometimes boldly, like a mischievous nudge. Sometimes with the unmistakable feeling that a scrap of fabric had tapped her on the shoulder and said, “You’re needed. A story wants telling.”And so Slow Stitch Whimsy was born: a place where cloth and thread are not just materials, but characters; where colours carry memories; where found objects bring their own histories; and where nothing - absolutely nothing - is ever “wrong”.Here, creativity is not a performance. It’s an adventure.Every Kawandi quilt becomes a map of tiny decisions. Every patchwork piece becomes a clue. Every stitch becomes a moment of listening - to the cloth, to the imagination, to the quiet parts of ourselves that speak only when our hands are busy.Workshops at Slow Stitch Whimsy are gentle sanctuaries. People arrive carrying the noise of the world, and leave carrying something softer:
- a sense of calm they didn’t expect
- a spark of playfulness they thought they’d lost
- a piece of work that feels unmistakably theirs
- and the strange, delightful feeling that threads whispered to them too
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