E-Co-Stitch is about sewing and environment with our community. An occasional series of drop-in and practical sewing, stitching, mending, remaking worshops. These take place round our kitchen table at GroundWork and are very informal and enjoyable. Next dates are on 22 April and 20 May.
E-Co Stitch with Sally-Ann Arts
Sally-Ann has a lifetime of sewing experience and trained in textile arts at Norwich University of the Arts and Trinity St David’s . Workshops with Sally-Ann are all about being both creative and resourceful, sharing simple skills so that we can be both more economical and more environmental. But it is also a question of bringing and sharing your own experience and skill so that we can all enjoy learning new things together.
Sewing and stitching together is such a calming and sociable activity- as we all know from historic traditions like quilting bees, which have helped to form so many local stitching communities.
E-Co-Stitch workshop dates at GroundWork
Wednesday 22 April
2.00 – 4.00
Wednesday 20 May
2.00 – 4.00
Voluntary donation: £5.00 per session. All materials provided for a project Sally-Ann will prepare for you. Or, if you prefer, you are welcome to bring your own favourite projects, threads, cloth and tools to work on.
These workshops at GroundWork Gallery are connected to an ongoing series of longer and more detailed monthly Slow Stitch workshops at Studio Baum.
E-Co-Stitch to make the home brighter
As well as our own sense of well-being, we can also improve our home environments cheaply and effectively with cloth. Sewing need not require any expensive equipment and can make use of the most basic skills. But also, basic skills can produce wonderful results and can – importantly – be a very simple and effective way were can help the environment.
Sewing at GroundWork
We have a love of sewing, stitching and mending at GroundWork. Director, Veronica Sekules was brought up to sew, taught by her mother. Her sister too, Kate Sekules has taken it even further and has become an international mending celebrity. Author of Mend, published by Penguin Books in the US, Kate ran some of GroundWork’s first creative mending workshops. It started very much as a family thing, but now we are keen to expand, to involve our wider circle of friends and associates.
