by GillyMac | Oct 10, 2020 | Teens
I have always loved teaching my teen classes and wanted to extend the opportunities to sew to a much wider teen audience. Earlier this year I created a small library of video tutorials aimed at young sewists. The videos are all completely free and there are already 6...
by GillyMac | May 6, 2018 | Uncategorised
Sometimes a challenge can get the creative ideas flowing and a month or so ago my Saturday Morning class were set a challenge, to create a small piece of work, based on one of four pictures of places special to me. There were of St Basil’s Basilica in Red Square, the...
by GillyMac | May 6, 2018 | Uncategorised
The Saturday morning girls are always quick to adopt new ideas and find pretty much everything we do (except hand sewing) really exciting. Lola chose to work from the picture of St Basil’s Basilica and the other 4 decided to use the picture of the Dead Sea. Just...
by GillyMac | Mar 2, 2018 | Teens, Uncategorised
Over February half term I decided to make a baby quilt, well more like a throw. I made it as a gift to my form tutor, as his partner has just had a baby. He’s also been my form tutor for the last five years so it’s also as a thank you gift. I go to sewing classes with...
by GillyMac | Dec 28, 2017 | Uncategorised
I have read soooooooo many posts online these past few days, where people are upset that the gift they have made has not been properly appreciated or even appreciated at all. It is sad, and I can feel all the frustration when I read each story. I don’t have...
by GillyMac | Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorised
It is very easy to buy a bundle of fabrics, all from the same range, because the colour combination (often called a colour story) will have been worked out for you. In the Tula Pink Tabby Road Collection, the ‘Strawberry Fields’ colourway has red grouped...
by GillyMac | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorised
I am no stranger to working on my holidays. After years of corporate life, where everything was urgent, nothing could wait and my phone was constantly ringing (with bad news), not working would be shocking. However now working on this holiday, isn’t really work, it is...
by GillyMac | Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorised
If you didn’t already know (how could you not know !) , on 22nd September we held a Dawn til Dusk Sewathon in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. From 7am until 7pm there was a flow of adults and then after school children and teens arriving at the studio in...
by GillyMac | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Now that there quite a few people coming along to classes and so many brilliant things are being created, it has been on my mind to find a way to share more of what we do just between ourselves. I already post some of the work in my gallery page on this website, and...
