Date: Tuesday 21 May
Time: 7:30 - 9.30pm
Location: 15 Queen Street , CO1 2PH
RSVP: on Facebook
For May we are making bloomers with local burlesque dancer Holly High Heels from Helles Belles Burlesque. We will provide the needles, thread, and those bits and bobs to get you started. We also have a huge bag of random fabric you can rummage through! Please bring along some silky or lovely fabric to make your bloomers with. The staple ELVIS will be playing and there will be plenty of tea and coffee.
If you’ve got a haberdashery project you are working on, please bring it along. We’d love to see what you’ve been creating.
Our sessions are all about dedicating one night of the month to getting crafty with local ladies and gents.
Date: Tuesday 16 April
Time: 7:30 - 9.30pm
Location: 15 Queen Street , CO1 2PH
RSVP: on Facebook
It’s April, so we thought, let’s have an Easter themed S & B!
This month we are joined by the ever crafty Kate Keeling AKA House of Pandas. We will be crafting three little bird/chick toys. If you could bring along the buttons for the eyes we will provide the template, fabric, wadding, needles and thread.
We also have a huge bag of random fabric you can rummage through! The staple ELVIS will be playing and there will be plenty of tea and coffee.
If you’ve got a haberdashery project you are working on, please bring it along. We’d love to see what you’ve been creating. Our sessions are all about dedicating one night of the month to getting crafty with local ladies and gents.
www.letsstitchandbitch.co.uk
Tuesday 19 February
7.30 - 9.30pm (sometimes later)
15 Queen Street, CO1 2PH
For February we have invited Show Pony AKA Cheeky Tiki Island to host our crafty session.
Pony, from Wellington New Zealand is now based in Essex and set up Cheeky Tiki Island because of her love of crafting, upcycling, refashioning and creating funky things using recycled and new materials.
“My main influences stem from Polynesian art and culture and Mexican folk art. Commissions welcome.”
The theme for this month is Bizarre Bras!
Bring along your bra to pimp it out with diamonds, sequins or maybe some studs?
We will provide the needles, thread, and those bits and bobs to get you started. We also have a huge bag of random fabric you can rummage through!
The staple ELVIS will be playing and there will be plenty of tea and coffee. It you’ve got some knitting or a haberdashery project you are working on, please bring it along. We’d love to see what you’ve been creating. You are more than welcome to join us and craft the night away at Stitch & Bitch!
Our sessions are all about dedicating one night of the month to getting crafty with local ladies and gents.
RSVP via Facebook
I run a Stitch & Bitch craft club with my friend Amy Turnbull. We are sending off over 1,500 donated knits from the community to Africa this week.
We called out for knitting to help clothe babies in Africa in August 2012. Newborns in Africa (usually suffering with AIDS) are wrapped in newspaper when born to stay warm, nicknamed the ‘fish and chip babies’.
Local knitters have been creating jumpers and hats to keep the babes warm instead. We originally thought they would receive a humble bundle to send. The final count was 26 blankets, 4 sets of booties, 783 hats, 691 jumpers and 35 sets of mittens.
Local charity Re~Cycle have kindly agreed to add the knitting to their
shipment of bicycles to their Salvation Army point in Malawi. The
knits will be dropped off at their bicycle & taylor workshop, allowing the locals to pick up the jumpers and hats for the babies. Big thank you to Re~Cycle manager Derek for making this happen.
Amy and me would like to thank everyone who has donated knitting
over the last 6 months. It’s been fantastic how quickly the community began to knit and donate. I would received a bag a week, then a bag a day in December, til we totted up the total amount.
“We never believed we’d receive so many. For now we are no longer taking submissions for Fish & Chip babies, and are now encouraging knitters to help make blankers for Battersea Dogs home. We may start to project again later in the year.”
Amy Turnbull
Our local knitting group called ‘Stitch & Bitch’ runs every third Tuesday of the month at the Colchester based creative hub, 15 Queen Street.
We collaborate with an artist once a month – which is how the project began, as Amy approached me with the idea to knit for the ‘fish and chip babies’. Keen crafters enjoy our themed workshops or bring along their knitting & haberdashery projects to work on with a friendly bunch of ladies and gentlemen.
A camera has been included with the shipment we can’t wait to receive photos of the locals with the knits later in the year.
Date: Tuesday 29 January
Time: 7:30 - 9.30pm
Location: fifteen Queen Street
RSVP: on Facebook
*Rescheduled due to weather conditions*
Time to get warm and cosy with a (kigu) onesie workshop!
For January we have invited Laura Napoletani to share how to make your own toasty all in one. She has a pattern she can provide at the session for you to mark up your own outfit. Or ask us beforehand, bring your cut out pattern and sew along with the group.
Please bring along your own fabric. You need around 3m of polar fleece. Normal fleece will do, but it will need a lining. We will provide the needles, thread, and those bits and bobs to get you started. We also have a huge bag of random fabric you can rummage through!
The staple ELVIS will be playing and there will be plenty of tea and coffee.
It you’ve got a haberdashery project you are working on, please bring it along. We’d love to see what you’ve been creating. If you need a chance to get knitting, or even start a fish & chip babies jumper, you are more than welcome to join us.
Our sessions are all about dedicating one night of the month to getting crafty with local ladies and gents.
(Picture: Kigu. Kigu is the Japanese term ‘Kigurumi’ meaning animal costume/cosplay. Harajuku girls in Japanese started the onesie craze, by wearing them out in the streets!)
Returning just in time for Valentines. Local ladies (and gents if they wish) are invited to join me, Fanny Darling, at the wonderful Tea & Sympathy for a tongue in cheek workshop creating nipple tassels on Thursday 7th February from 7.45pm.
It’s a gin-in-a-teacup themed event were you will be served a cocktail shot on arrival, and specially mixed gin tipples in a tea cup throughout the night.
Please let us know if you don’t like gin! Plus virgin drinks are available for all.
I will show you how to create your very own nipple tassels using a variety of techniques from sequins to glitter.
I have templates for circle or heart shapes, or you can experiment and try something new! View some examples below:
£15 per person, including all materials, three refills of your tea cup, and a special performance from Fanny Darling ;)
To book please contact Jo & Melissa @ Tea & Sympathy
http://www.alittlesympathy.co.uk/
Fanny Darling is my alter ego in the local burlesque troupe Helles Belles Burlesque.
http://hellesbelles.co.uk/
Find out more about my performances
http://singyamatokun.tumblr.com/FannyDarling
