Let there be light! – Lampshade Workshop

Monday 17^th June 2013           

LAMPSHADE WORKSHOP

with Michelle Cresswell from Owl & Slipper

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

 

Looking for the perfect shade for your side lamp or your ceiling?

 

If you find shop-brought lampshades a little bland and uninspiring, then why not consider making your own?

 

(shows the smaller 20cm shade)

Come and learn how to create your own bespoke shade in this workshop with Michelle Cresswell from Owl and Slipper (website and facebook). Bring fabric of your choice and she will show you how to transform it into a professionally finished rolled edge drum lampshade in just 2 ½ hours. Choose between a 20cm or 30cm diameter drum shade for either £18 or £21 to be used as a table lamp or ceiling pendant. The workshop price includes all materials, in a kit, except for the outer fabric and of course tea and cake. You will want to re-shade all your lamps after this workshop!

 

(Annely’s lampshade showing the 30cm size)

You can also order extra kits from us (20cm drum shade kit £9, 30cm drum shade kit £12) for you to take away to complete.

This is a workshop that is ideal for beginners and is perfect for ‘upcycling’ some vintage/ retro fabric or even an old scarf like Kathy did at the last workshop. Michelle ran this workshop for us last September which was very successful, you can see the review of that workshop here.

 

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Cost: £18 or £21

Places: only 10 places available

You will need to bring: Fabric of your choice (details are on the booking form) all other materials are included in the price.

 

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

 

March’s update on workshops

We have loads of exciting workshops coming up, check the ‘Future Events’ tab for more details. There are lots of workshops still being planned such as chocolate making and cupcake decorating and details will go up as soon as they are finalised. We are running the hand and body cream workshop and the beginners crochet workshops again due to popular demand. Most of the upcoming workshops are fully booked, mainly due to the workshops being small and only for 6 people, however we do have some spaces left on some of the larger workshops:-

–          Beaded Jewellery – 18^th March – details here

–          Paverpol Vase – 15^th April – details here

–          Lampshade making – 17^th June

–          Natural Hand cream and Body Cream  – 17^th June

Do email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you are interested and we can email you a booking form. We’d love to reach more people in Horsham (and surrounding area) particularly men folk and anyone who would like to bring their teenage children are very welcome! Please do share with your friends and neighbours. We are also busy planning more events for charity, another Pillowcase Dress night on 29th April and Upcycling Jewellery for Cancer Research shop in East St on 3^rd June.

We also have a few spaces on 2 of our childrens workshops, our collaboration with Makers & Creators. Block printing on a Tshirt which is this saturday and then Book Binding during the easter holidays. Details are here.

A new craft coming to MAKE…Paverpol workshop

Monday 15th April 2013           

PAVERPOL VASE

with Irma Westerdijk from Creations by Irma

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

 

Come and learn the art of Paverpol with certified instructor Irma Westerdijk from Creations by Irma. She will be showing us how to create a new vase using a cotton tshirt and paverpol. This is a workshop that it ideal for beginners and is perfect for ‘upcyling’ an old vase lurking in the back of the cupboard. Do take a look at Irma’s website and facebook page and take a look at some of her stunning creations

If, like me, you didn’t know what Paverpol was then the following description from Irma’s website  explains it well.

“What is Paverpol? Paverpol is a textile hardener that enables you to work with supple fabrics such as cotton, and sculpt visual masterpieces that can be displayed both in and outside your home. Paverpol is non-toxic, environmentally friendly and fun to work with. Paverpol is the only hardener with the AP safety label, making it suitable for children and adults.

How to use Paverpol? By dipping natural textile materials in Paverpol, you can drape and wrap the coated materials around a wire figurine or other frame. You can even preserve items of clothing, such as a first baby-grow, or dried flowers. Paverpol dries quickly, but gives you enough time to work and position textiles. Once hardened, you will have a beautiful and unique decoration or sculpture, which is weatherproof, so can be displayed indoors or outdoors. Providing the materials being dipped in Paverpol are natural, you can work with an array of textiles, including paper, silk, chamois leather, self hardening clay, dried flowers, untreated wood, plaster, pottery and more. You can also use polystyrene foam to fashion shapes.”

 Irma is part of the Horsham Artists Open Studios

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Cost: £16

You will need to bring:

–         Apron plus please wear old clothes

–         A vase (glass or china) to cover,

–         Old 100% cotton plain T-shirt (not too dark a colour)

 

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

 

Beaded necklace, earings and bracelet workshop

Monday 18th March 2013           

BEADED NECKLACE, EARINGS AND BRACELET

with DAC Designs

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

 

Come and learn the basics of beaded jewellery with Danni of DAC Designs. You will be shown the tricks of the trade in making a necklace, a pair of earings and 3 bracelets using black beads. Alternatively you could make a pair of earings and the fireworks ring. The necklace can be either long or short or made as a choker. This is another opportunity to make the  gorgeous firework ring, details can be found here.

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Places:  limited to 8 places

Cost: £9

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

 

Latest update on new mini workshops

Now that we have slightly changed the way our evenings work we thought it would be a good idea to update you regularly. Last year we had one large workshop each month on a Monday evening followed by a craft café evening towards the end of each month, plus some Wednesday evenings for Craft at The Crown. We are still having all our events on the first and third Monday evenings of each month (slightly different in some months due to bank holidays) however we now have several smaller workshops running side by side with our craft café on each evening. As we now have a lovely new larger venue and with the informal nature of Make this has worked well for the last two sessions.

 

At tonight’s event we have the second session in a four part course on Making a Patchwork Quilt plus another 2 part workshop in Beginners Crochet starting. Both are fully booked. However we also have a workshop in ‘Natural Soap Making’, details are here, with Beverley of Just Bev Soaps. We do have a few spaces left for this so email us on makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk if you’d like one. Fantastic value at £15 as you will make about 8-10 bars of soap in the workshop!

Craft café will also be going on, at only £4, so if you fancy some company whilst you knit or do another craft then come and join us for tea, cake and some crafting chatter.

 

Dressing Girls Around The World

Wow, our first event of 2013 certainly went with a bang! What a great way to start the year by helping others. 26 of us gathered on the last Monday evening of January for a community sewing evening, all with a common aim, to make a dress for a little girl somewhere in the world who had never worn one before. This event had obviously inspired a lot of people in Horsham, many of us had young children and some had daughters so it had struck a chord. The majority of people hadn’t even touched a sewing machine before, despite this in 2 hours we ended up with 24 dresses and to date we have over 30 dresses to send to Louise of Sew Scrumptious for Dress a Girl around the world charity.

Everyone pitched in, from bringing home baked cookies to putting on a big pot of tea. New friends were made and time was spent with old friends. Lots of laughter and learning new skills going on, a normal evening for our Make workshops!

A huge thank you to the lovely Victoria of Cuddle Monster Crafts who suggested this project in the first place and then came to show us how to make them.

Everyone had such a good time most people asked when the next one would be! I know lots of people couldn’t make this evening either so Watch this space as we’ll organise another evening making these pillowcase dresses in March or April .

New Felting Workshop – wet and needle felting techniques

Monday 4^th March 2013            

MAKING A SMALL BOWL AND DECORATIVE EASTER EGGS: WET FELTING AND NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP

with Jay Kendall of Knitwit Originals

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

 

Jay Kendall of Knitwit Originals is back with us by popular demand after the successful Christmas Decorations workshop in November. This time she is going to show us how to make a small vessel or bowl (approx. 6” wide by 5” high) using the wet felting technique. You will use merino wool fibres and some silk fibres all from a range of pastel colours. Wet felting is a wonderfully tactile art which allows you to build shapes. Jay will then show us how to needle felt some small easter eggs from the same fibres and how to needle felt a simple decorative pattern on them to place inside the bowl. The bowls would also make a lovely gift filled with sweets or even buttons. For more details on what needle felting is please see our previous post here.

 

 

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Cost: £15

Places: limited to 10 people

You will need to bring:

–         an apron,

–         2 medium sized towels,

–         bamboo place mat or sushi mat (if possible)

 

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

 

Launching our Make workshops for children with Makers & Creators

I am thrilled to announce a collaboration between Make and Makers and Creators offering crafty workshops for children in Horsham. I am so excited about this as I have wanted to do some childrens workshops since I started Make last year and have now found the perfect partner in Annalees! We will be doing a wide variety of workshops for both boys and girls between 8 and 12 yrs old working on skills such as sewing, book binding, fabric printing and much more. The above leaflet will now be popping up in places around Horsham!

 

 

Above  is the information for two workshops for part of the Spring 2013 programme, covering half term.

Email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk for a booking form.

 

Hair Shampoo Bar Workshop

Monday 15^th April 2013             

NEEM HAIR SHAMPOO BAR WORKSHOP

with Just Bev Soaps

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

 

 

Come and learn how to make Hair Shampoo Bars with Beverley Scott-Hughes of Just Bev Soaps, based in Storrington. These fantastic bars are perfect for travelling or camping as they have 3 uses; as a soap, as a hair shampoo and as a soap to wash your clothes! We will be working in pairs learning how to make the Nettle, Neem and Lavender Hair Shampoo bars with a base of Olive Oil and castor oil to produce a block of soap that can then be cut up into 4-6 bars of soap (if using a loaf cake silicone shaped mould) so a great workshop if you wanted to make some presents for others or to simply create a personal supply. Nettles are used as they are full of vitamins, antioxidants, histamine and other healing properties. Making products from natural sources is wonderful for sensitive skin and those who just want to know exactly what is going onto their skins. You will also get the recipes and instruction sheets to take home with you.

On this workshop you will learn:

–           The history of soap

–           The importance of measurements of oils, the different kinds of oils and how they react.

–           Learn about and blend essential oils.

–           Making the soap, mixing, temperatures.

–           How to line a soap mould, un-moulding the soap, Drying/ curing the soap and cutting

 

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Cost: £9

Places: limited to 10 people

You will need to bring:

–         an apron,

–         eye covering (prescription glasses or safety goggles)

–         wear old clothes with long sleeves.

–         a silicone mould (with a min of 6cm depth) either a loaf cake shape or ones with novelty shapes. The ½ pound in weight that we will be making is the equivalent to over ½ litre in volume of water, in case you wanted to test your moulds first.

–         a cardboard box or baking tray on which to place your mould to keep it stable when you take it home as it will need a month to cure before you can use it.

–         Please also bring a small bunch of fresh nettles with you.

 

Beverley will be setting up a small table of her Just Bev Soap products to sell on the evening.

 

Email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk to reserve a place and we will send you a booking form.

 

Natural Hand and Body Cream Workshop

Monday 18^th March 2013                      

HAND CREAM AND BODY CREAM WORKSHOP

with Just Bev Soaps

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

Join us for this workshop with Beverley from Just Bev Soaps to make 2 pots of luxurious cream for your whole body using quality ingredients that are 100% natural. The hand cream is made with almond oil, calendula, jojoba oil, wheatgerm oil and spring water mixed with an essential oil of your choice. All known for their healing and moisture retaining properties. The Whipped Butter is a wonderful body cream for those with sensitive or very dry skin and also works on cracked heels. It’s made with Cocoa butter, Shea butter, Coconut oil, Jojoba Oil whipped together to make a soft butter cream. You will also get the recipes and instruction sheets to take home with you.

Details:

Suitable for: All abilities

Cost: £10

Places: limited to 10 people

You will need to bring: Please bring an apron, electric hand stick blender (if you have one) and wear old clothes with long sleeves.

Beverley will be setting up a small table of her Just Bev Soap products to sell on the evening.

Email us at makehorsham@yahoo.co.uk to reserve a place and we will send you a booking form.