Upcycling Embroidery Workshop - Floral Couching

London

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Craft

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Textiles

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Sewing and Embroidery

Upcycling Embroidery Workshop - Floral Couching

Nurture your creativity with the couching stitch in this London embroidery class.

Ashley Jess Knight

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1.5 hours

5 to 12 £40

London

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Craft

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Textiles

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Sewing and Embroidery

What you'll do

Step into the tranquil ambience of experienced teacher Ashley Jess Knight's weaving studio and immerse yourself in a therapeutic and relaxing embroidery workshop in London.

In this class, you'll discover the couching stitch as you make a floral textile art piece and explore various ways to upcycle your clothes. Couching is a hand embroidery technique that secures a 3D material onto fabric, which can be varied using different stitches.

You'll start with mastering the basic embroidery stitch before working on a flower patch crafted from recycled materials. Here's where your creativity truly blossoms as you can customise your flower using the couching stitch. Further personalise your creation with an assortment of upcycled beads, sequins, and embellishments.

To finish up the workshop, Ashley will guide you on finishing the edges of your embroidery hoop to transform it into a finished piece of artwork that you can take home with pride.

On the hunt for a London hen party idea, a creative birthday party or Valentine's Day celebrations? This experience is perfect for creatives and accessible for beginners. Your teacher can travel within London and the UK for additional travel costs.

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Knowledge required

Participants do not need to have attended the basic couching workshop or have previous embroidery experience to attend this workshop, however they may find it useful.

What you'll get

Your piece of floral themed artwork to take home.
Embroidery hoop, deadstock base denim fabric and a variety of coloured and textured yarns that are deadstock or weaving waste from Ashley's weaving studio alongside a variety of beads, sequins and embellishments.
Variety of cotton embroidery threads, large eyed needles, needle threaders and scissors provided.

Suitable for

This class is great for a birthday or hen do.

Location

South East London

Exact location is masked for privacy. You'll automatically get the specific address after booking.

Your teacher can also travel within 200 miles of London, to a venue of your choice for a private class

Upcycling Embroidery Workshop - Floral Couching location

Your teacher

Ashley Jess Knight

Ashley is an award winning upcycler, weaver and textile designer based in South East London whose work focuses on colour, texture, joy and sustainability!

Ashley started her textile business in 2021 after winning the Cockpit Arts x Clothworkers award which allowed her to establish her London studio where she creates handwoven samples and designs alongside her namesake fashion brand where she creates upcycled jackets and accessories using her own handwoven fabrics woven from discarded materials such as wedding dresses, denim and deadstock materials.

Ashleys strong passion in keeping both the materials and memory from going into landfill has led her to running upcycling workshops allowing participants to create beautiful upcycled artworks, learn more about upcycling and sustainable fashion and learn useful upcycling skills that can be used after the workshop.

Ashley has run workshops and demos for organisations such as; The British Textile Biennial, New Designers, London Borough of Culture, Cockpit Arts, Arts for Dementia and Art fund-funded projects.

Ashley's workshops focus on upcycling skills focusing on the embroidery technique of couching, allowing participants to upcycle weaving waste into textured and 3D art pieces which can be simple technical swatches or more complex themed art pieces.