Sewing Workshops in Edinburgh, garment making, embroidery and printed textiles. 

Discover the joy of making with hands-on textile workshops designed for absolute beginners and seasoned stitchers alike. From sewing your own clothes and mastering garment-making techniques to visible mending, upcycling, embroidery, patchwork and creative textile crafts, these workshops are all about learning practical skills in a relaxed, inspiring environment. 

Come for the skills, stay for the community, and experience the satisfaction of transforming fabric into something beautiful, useful and personal. Bring your curiosity, your creativity and maybe even that pile of clothes you’ve been meaning to fix for years.

Fabric - whatever you have really! - stiffer fabric works best to keep tension of thread - so avoid very light cottons, satins and stretch jersey. If you have anything you can upcycle - old shirts, jeans etc. Or you can embroider directly onto clothes you still wear - Sashiko is also a mending process so you can use to patch over holes in garments etc. - traditionally Sashiko is blue and white  but don’t worry about that for now.

 

Thread - there are threads specifically made for Sashiko - they are quite thick and almost like a string but you can use ordinary embroidery threads - even wool if you want a a very bold pattern and machine threads though this will be fiddly and will give a very subtle effect - so again whatever you already have around the house.

 

Needle - Again you can buy needles specifically for Sashiko - I tend to use a long darner needle with a relatively big eye - as the thread is thick you need something you can thread easily - must have sharp point.

 

Chalk or pencil - we need to draw our design onto the fabric so if you are using a dark coloured fabric a while or light coloured pencil will work best and just an ordinary pencil if using light coloured fabric. - I’ve just bought Glass marking pencils which are even better than chalk or regular white pencil - available online - Apsara, glass marking pencils.

 

Ruler 

 

Cuppa! - a vital piece of equipment in my opinion!! it is a social event as well as learning!