Decompress and chill in the Drawing Room with your unfinished project or your next crafting adventure!
Get help from others, delve into the inspirational Art Library books and resources. Start something new, share a skill or simply find a space to get on with your craft and listen to a great playlist! Gain access to sewing machines, overlocker and cricut.
Hot drinks are provided.
This is for those 16+
Join us as @piierrote hosts a night of zinemaking!
There's no experience required, whether you've made zines a billion times or haven't even heard of them, come along and have some time making a zine about anything you'd like.
Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring along your favourite supplies and pictures of things you love!
Tickets are free, reserve yours on our website!
Join us for a gorgeous evening of creativity at Flamingos as we dive into the world of modern calligraphy.
This is the perfect workshop for complete beginners – it will be a fun and supportive environment to learn and connect.
What to Expect:
Essential Tools and Techniques: Get acquainted with your calligraphy tools, master basic strokes and drills, and unlock the secrets of letterforms, words, and sentences.
Personalised Guidance: Receive expert tips, tricks, and individual attention from your tutor, ensuring a comfortable learning experience for everyone.
Join us for an evening of creativity and community. We will be delving into the world of hand-building pottery.
Join us at Flamingos Coffee House — an inclusive, LGBTQ+ friendly space in the heart of Leeds — for a relaxed and cre
If you're a space holder or holistic therapist and looking to authentically and respectfully add the use of ceremonial cacao to your services, then this is the course for you.
In this day class you will learn how to create a mixed media piece of textile art using paper, collage and unusual materials to create your own embellishments. Hayley will guide you through creating a textured paper collage ready to embellish with hand and machine embroidery as well as unusual materials like plastic and metal. You will learn how to combine these non-traditional materials to make your piece as well as using hand and machine embroidery to enhance your design.
In this day class you will learn how to create a design from a photograph (of a landscape, or portrait) and bring it to life using fabric and thread. Hayley will guide you through the basics of tracing a design, and transferring this onto to fabric ready to stitch using a variety of threads with some raw edge applique to add colour and texture.
You will also learn some simple hand embroidery stitches that create your embroidered picture including stem stitch, French knots and satin stitch.
'Garforth Nature Journal Club' will be held once per month at the Community Garden at the Lord Gascoigne pub.
Open to adults, and older teenagers accompanied by adults from Garforth and the local area.
Learn how to keep a nature journal, using words, pictures and numbers. A way to document your connection to nature where you live.
Our first session will be held on Saturday 5th April 10-12 am.
Places are free, but limited, booking is essential.
Please email me at raspberrythief@gmail.com.
Learn sewing machine skills to make your own pad and make pads to support women here and overseas. Drop in session. During these sessions we are sewing reusable, washable period packs that will be distributed in Kenya alongside quality menstrual health education.
We welcome all sewing abilities to get involved with the workshops. They are a fun, relaxing and productive way to spend an afternoon.