Pop Up Making Corner at The Vintage and Retro Fair

When Kelly from Belle’s Events asked us to set up a Makers Corner for their first Vintage & Retro Fair in Horsham we jumped at the chance. There are going to be over 35 exhibitors and we are running a Pop-up Vintage Makes Craft Corner, very exciting! Splendid Occasions is running a Vintage tearoom, a Hair and beauty parlour plus Dawns Vintage Do has arranged a whole host of entertainment for everyone.

This is the first Fair of this kind in Horsham and hopefully will be the first of many.

Having had a good think about what types of crafts and makes we could offer you, bearing in mind the constraints of the event and wanting it to be suitable for children and adults plus for complete beginners/ more experienced crafters ………..this is what we have come up with…

Mini workshop 1: Liberty print fabric beaded necklace or bracelet

Mini workshop 2: Kilt pin brooch using vintage linens and fabrics

Mini workshop 3: Simple Vintage Peter Pan collar

More details on each workshop to come in a seperate post.

We have made them all suitable for both total beginners to more experienced people of all ages, especially suitable for children. Come and sit a while and sew whilst you soak up the atmosphere of the fair. Why not get a cuppa and a slice of cake from the pop-up tea rooms too?  Come and channel your inner seamstress!

 

‘Violet’ our Vintage Singer sewing machine will also be attending the fair to help you with your making.

 

As always we have just charged for the basic costs as we are a non-profit community project. However we are also offering  you up to a whopping 50% discount if you prebook one of our workshops before Sunday! Call it a small gift from us to you. To prebook please email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk 

Mini workshop 1: Liberty print fabric beaded necklace £10 £7 or bracelet £7 £5

Mini workshop 2: Kilt pin brooch using vintage linens and fabrics £12 £6

Mini workshop 3: Simple Vintage Peter Pan collar £15 £10

 

A reminder about our Craft Cafe evenings

 

We just wanted to remind everyone and to let those of you that are new to Make know that we also run a Craft Café. Last year this used to be a separate event but since we moved halls at the beginning of this year it was meant that we can merge the workshops with the craft café.

 

What is a Craft Café?

Well to put it simply it is an evening where you can bring along your latest craft project to work on, enjoy good crafting company, find inspiration, eat cake and drink tea. What more could you ask for? Come along and try it.

 

 

We originally set it up to provide our community here in Horsham with a place to be creative, have fun, feel good, and share and learn crafts skills. It is run alongside our more structured workshops that also run during the evening so it’s nice to have a look at what others are up to, our events are very informal and a lot of fun. No need to worry about getting there dead on 7pm, turn up when you can it will be great to see you!

 

Where and when is it and how much does it cost?

It is only £4 for a place at Craft Cafe. All advice, tips, tea and cake and good company will of course, be free. The £4 is to cover basic costs. You don’t need to pre-book but if you can please let us know that you will be coming. You can contact us for a space by emailing us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk

 

Dates of Craft Café nights for Summer are:

Monday 13^th May 2013, 7 – 9.30pm

Monday 17^th June 2013, 7 – 9.30pm

Monday 8^th July 2013, 7 – 9.30pm

Monday 15^th July 2013, 7 – 9.30pm

 

All are held at the Brighton Road Baptist Church in Horsham, off New Street.

 

Alice in Wonderland themed Sugarcraft and Cupcake Decorating Workshop

Monday 13^th May 2013

ALICE IN WONDERLAND THEMED

SUGARCRAFT AND CUPCAKE DECORATING WORKSHOP

with Gina Liston from Poppy’s Pantry

7.00 pm – 9.30pm (2 ½ hrs) at Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham

 

This workshop is ideal for those wanting to learn the basics of sugarcraft and how to decorate perfect cupcakes every time. Gina Liston from Poppy’s Pantry, based in Cowfold, makes the most wonderful creations and so is the perfect person to be running these workshops for us. Take a look at her website here and her facebook page here. Gina will be bringing her professionally baked cupcakes and will be teaching us how to make edible decorations to top them using basic sugarcraft techniques.

By the end of the class you will be able to:

-                      how to make perfect buttercream

-                      pipe beautiful buttercream swirls

-                      use sugarcraft tools and products correctly

-                      make stunning edible decorations to top your cupcakes

Each person will go home with their own creation of six cupcakes in a gorgeous Poppy’s Pantry gift box.

Everything is included in the price of the workshop, we just ask if you can bring a few bits of basic equipment. This is a perfect workshop for total beginners as the places are limited to only 6 people so you will get a lot of individual attention from Gina.

 

Details:

Suitable : for all abilities

Place: limited to only 6 places

Cost:  £21

You will need to bring:

-                      An apron, medium sized mixing bowl, a large spoon and a spatula

 

Please email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested and we can send you the booking form.

 

 

Gerbera Flower Sugarcraft and Cupcake Decorating workshop

Monday 8^th July and Monday 15^th July 2013

GERBERA FLOWER SUGARCRAFT AND CUPCAKE DECORATING WORKSHOP

with Gina Liston from Poppy’s Pantry

7.00 pm – 9.30pm (2 ½ hrs) at Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham

 

This workshop is ideal for those wanting to learn some basics of sugarcraft and how to use flower paste. Gina Liston from Poppy’s Pantry, based in Cowfold, makes the most wonderful creations and so is the perfect person to be running these workshops for us. Take a look at her website here and her facebook page here.

Gina will be bringing her professionally baked cupcakes and will be teaching us how to make some stunning floral edible decorations to top them using basic sugarcraft techniques. The focus will be on creating the intricate Gerbera flower using floral paste and then dusts are used to colour them to create a realistic effect. Each person will go home with their own creations of cupcakes in a gorgeous Poppy’s Pantry gift box.

Everything is included in the price of the workshop, we just ask if you can bring a few bits of basic equipment. This is a perfect workshop for total beginners as the places are limited to only 10 people.

 

Gerbera Flowers shown with Roses (not inc in this workshop)

Details:

Suitable : for all abilities

Place: limited to 10 places

Cost:  £18

You will need to bring:

-           An apron, medium sized mixing bowl, a large spoon and a spatula

We also have another Sugarcraft/ Cupcake Decorating workshop based on the theme of Alice in Wonderland on 13th May. More information is here.

Please email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested and we can send you the booking form.

 

Natural Beauty Products for Summer

Monday 3^rd June 2013

NATURAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS FOR SUMMER WORKSHOP

with Beverley Scott-Hughes from Just Bev Soaps

7.00 pm – 9.30pm (2 ½ hrs) at Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham

 

Come and learn how to make some beauty products out of entirely natural and high-quality ingredients to pamper yourself and to get your body in shape for your summer holiday. Beverley from Just Bev Soaps will be demonstrating and showing you how to make the following 5 different products, you will also get all the recipes and instruction sheets to take home so that you can make more.

During this workshop you will be making the following:

1.   1.    Fizzy Bath Bombs made with shea butter to moisturise the skin,

2.  2.     Bath Melts made from cocoa butter and other oils which nourishes dry skin and skin exposed to the sun.

3.   3.    Peppermint Foot Soaks made from peppermint essential oils, sea salt and bicarbonate of soda, great after a hot tiring day to put life back into your feet.

4.    4.   Face Mask will be made mixing various clays to make approx. half a jar of dry ingredients. This will be in powder form and each time you need some you can then mix a small amount with either water, rose water or yoghurt to make the paste to apply to the face. The mask will dry on the skin removing dead skin cells and toxins on the skin and rejuvenating the skin.

5.   5.    Salt Scrub is made with salts, sugars and oils. It’s great for exfoliating the skin, stimulating the circulation and removing dead skins cells. Beverley will have either lavender or Peppermint essential oils for this, please do bring your own oils if you wanted to use a different one.

 

Details:

Suitable : for all abilities

Places: 8 – 10 places

Cost:  £16

You will need to bring:

-           An apron, a pyrex jug, 2 ice cube trays, Kilner jar or similar (must have tight fitting lid) for the salt scrub, a small jar like a honey jar for the face mask.

 

Please email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested and we can send you the booking form.

 

Learn the Basics of Patchwork Quilting

Monday 15^th July 2013           

LEARN THE BASICS OF PATCHWORK QUILTING

with Victoria Coward from Cuddle Monsters

7.00-9.30pm (2 ½ hrs) at Brighton Road Baptist Church, Horsham

 

This is the perfect way to get involved in quilting or to re-discover it, so this absolute basics workshop is ideal for both beginners and more experienced sewers. You will learn about all the tools and the basic techniques to make a patchwork quilt by making this mug rug, 9” square ( 23cm x 23cm ) with Victoria Coward from Cuddle Monsters. In this workshop you’ll practice basic patchwork skills, accurately cutting and measuring fabric, sewing a 1/4inch seam and creating a simple patchwork mug rug to keep your tea and biscuits cosy. All materials will be supplied but you will need to bring some equipment.

 

 

Details:

Places:  limited to 9 places

Cost: £14

You will need to bring:

-         -  Your sewing machine (we do have some that you can use, please contact us)

-         -  A basic sewing kit (white thread, pins, small scissors, tape measure, unpicker, tailors pencil.)

-         -  Straight edged ruler, a tailors chalk or air erasable pen and fabric scissors OR a cutting mat, quilters ruler and rotary cutter.

 

Email us on makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested and we can send you the booking form.

 

Another Pillowcase Dress workshop for Charity

As our first workshop we did for charity this year on 28th January went so well we are doing it again on 29th April! We had over 26 people who gathered to make  pillowcase dresses for Dress a Girl Around The World charity and we sent over 30 dresses to Louise of Sew Scrumptious (who is the UK Co-ordinator). Lets see if we can get even more people and make even more dresses to send to them this time? Here is the review of our last charity workshop.

“It believes that every little girl should own a pretty dress”

The ‘Dress a Girl Around the World’ charity, which was founded in America and is part of Hope 4 Women International, encourages people that can sew to make simple ‘pillowcase’ dresses which are then distributed to girls living in poverty in developing countries like India, Malawi, Uganda, Ghana, Kenya etc.  It believes that every little girl should own at least one pretty dress. They have recently started making shorts for boys too.

 

Louise Horler from ‘Sew Scrumptious’ is the UK Co-ordinator and has now collected over 3,000 dresses from all over the UK and Ireland. Louise joined up after reading about the charity in Sewing Magazine last year. If you haven’t heard of this project, then check out the US website here, and Louise’s page on her blog about it here or on her facebook page here.

So what are the details?

Monday 29th April 2013            7pm – 9.30pm

in the Main Hall of the Brighton Road Baptist Church, entrance is in New Street

Cost: FREE, however we would really appreciate a donation of at least £3 to cover basic costs such as bias binding/ thread/ elastic/ hall hire/ tea & cake/ postage etc.

 

Please tell all your friends about it, share this on facebook, let’s see how many dresses we can make in one evening, the more the merrier!

 

But I can’t sew?

No problem, there are plenty of jobs to get involved with just come along and chose which part you’d like to get involved with. Plenty of tea making skills are needed as well as ironing, cutting  out the patterns, making fabric flowers to go onto the dresses, cutting lengths of elastic and bias binding. However at our workshop in January everyone (the majority hadn’t been near a sewing machine before) had a go and everyone ended up making a dress. Victoria from Cuddle Monsters and myself will be on hand to guide you through the simple steps.

 

Want to get involved?

Just follow these simple steps….

1. Mark the date in your diary
2. Let us know that you are thinking of coming in the comments section or via email (makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk), just so we can make sure we have room for everyone and more importantly that we have enough cake and tea for everyone!
3. Find an old pillowcase (or more) that is clean, without marks or stains and not too see-through. If you haven’t got any some charity shops still sell them I know that Horsham Matters sell lots in their upstairs section. Alternatively please bring some fabric, 1m plus. We also have some spare pillowcases that you can use if you wish.
4. Please bring your own sewing machine and fabric scissors if you have them.

 

You can also look at it this way……. why not come and learn how to make a simple dress for your daughter or shorts for you son whilst doing something good for our community? And all for only £3 plus free tea or coffee and plenty of cake not to mention fabulous company!

Also if you’ve been watching The Great British Sewing Bee and feel inspired to start sewing then this is the perfect start.