Wellness Hand Sewing Workshops and Events
Wellness through hand crafts is a powerful tool. We teach hand sewing, sashiko in particular due to it’s simplicity and rhythmic flow. Boro and sashiko projects to suit your group. Sashiko is an ancient Japanese technique, originally a humble craft to reuse old yet precious garments, strengthening them.
The sashiko we use is very similar to the original craft, organic forms, rather than the geometric modern interpretation of the original craft. The focus of the designs is to leave perfectionism out, we embrace the natural variety of stitch sizes to allow the stitcher, beginner and experienced, to truly relax and gain the most benefit from this wonderful art form.
It is easy for beginners to learn quickly with the aim of flow state through simply becoming immersed in the rhythmic hand sewing.
WORKSHOPS & POP UPS
Wellness Sewing & Crafts - Pop Ups & Events
Sustainability Focussed Wellness Sewing Events – Taster sessions, Sashiko have a go mini projects, introducing ethical wellness sewing at events.
Craft Collective – hosting regular monthly sessions, new projects and inspiration. We help your people to include crafts as part of the wellness life journey – as a tool for rebalancing at work and home life.
Crafts Clinic – walk in sessions for your people to get advice and help. Bring your projects in for hands on help, ‘show me how’ when you get stuck.
Baby and bridal shower, and parties – group stitching circles, sew a project together with lots of heart – each stitch holding treasured memories made together.
Hotel Guests – We will bring projects that can be completed in a short amount of time, teaching new skills and relaxing. A lovely accompaniment to afternoon tea.
Corporate Internal and External Clients – really brilliant skill to learn, not just sewing, it’s how to use it for relaxation to reenergise. We have projects with both masculine and feminine focus to involve everyone.
Marie Curie in London (in the photo are Anna and Laura, a nurse and wellness team leader at the hospice.)
Both ladies were beginners, learning sashiko with relaxation as the aim to help families and patients at the hospice. Making sashiko felt hearts for emotional connection at a challenging time in peoples lives.
Bringing ease, lightness and calm with each stitch.
Sewing Events
Ts & Cs
Insurance
Public liability insurance with Direct Line.
DBS
Full DBS clear certificate.
Fees
Including all materials to make the piece and tools to use on the day. The person takes home their piece created. £50-100 per person for a 2 hour event. The kit is included in the price. Minimum spend of £500 per event. Full details will be sent with the contract.
We use the finest fabrics and materials, sustainably produced and sourced – predominantly British. Baird McNutt Irish linen, Liberty London Tana lawns, wools, silks. Repurposing and recycling wherever possible.
Sewing Workshops and Events to Relax
A few of the projects available for sessions. We will suggest three options after you provide the objective and sewing ability of the group.
Learn Boro - Japanese Patchwork
Boro is wonderful traditional Japanese method of repairing fabric and strengthening it to last. Great for repairing clothes and bags, and making cushions. Upcycle your old face masks and fabric scraps
Level: Beginner
Benefits: Rhythmic relaxing Sashiko stitch
Design creativity
Session: 2 hours
Learn Visible Mending
Bring a garment to repair and decorate. Learning the skills to decorate your garments with sashiko and boro methods.
Level: Beginner
Benefits: Reuse and upcycle garments and fabric bags. Creative design.
Session: 2 hours
Sashiko Bag Making
Sashiko for the Taru Maru Bag. You may be an experienced machine sewer who wants to learn Sashiko to make the Taru Maru duffle bag. You will learn Sashiko circles, plus tips and tricks.
Level: Sashiko Beginner
Benefits: Rythmic relaxing stitching
Session: 2 to 4 hours
Learn Sashiko Embroidery Essentials
Learn sewing and embroidery basics – tips on how to thread your needle, tie a knot, change threads and sashiko embroidery, stitch a star on linen, circles, and many more designs.
A lovely group project, these squares can be made into a pillow cover or quilt. We provide a finishing service if no one in the group wishes to make all the squares into an item.
Level: Beginner
Benefits: Rhythmic relaxing sashiko stitch
Sewing basics to allow you to do many other sewing projects
Sashiko Stitch - Decorate a Cap. Masculine // Feminine
Brilliant usable project for feminine and masculine groups, choose your colours and embroidery design, caps and threads.
Level: Beginner
Benefits: Learn sewing basics
Garment Decoration
Stick and stitch patches to sashiko embroider and revive an old T-shirt or pair of canvas sneakers. Canvas shoes are tough to push the needle through.
Level: Beginner
Benefits: Rhythmic and relaxing. Creativity through placement of the design.
Learn Boho Sashiko Freestyle
Patchwork square projects, a brilliant introduction to the freedom of stitching. Learn to design your own patchwork squares. Many simple boho designs for inspiration. Focus on simplicity and flow state stitching.
Level: Absolute beginner
Benefits: Relaxing rhythmic stitch
Group making quilt squares (each make squares for a quilt)
Session: 2 hours
Make your own sewing kit - needle book and pincushion
Perfect for a sewist, handmade mini kit, in pure wool felt a pin cushion and needle book with pockets inside the cover, a mother of pearl button and flax twine closure. Perfect for stitching on the go.
Level: Advanced beginner
Benefits: Learn Sashiko stitch, blanket stitch, sewing a button on
Windmill Felt Pegboard Bunting
Sashiko trimmed windmills with a button, threaded together.
Level: Beginner
Benefits:
Lovely project to sew for home, workspace and pegboards.
Are you looking for wellness craft? One to support your people now and that they can continue to benefit from in years to com.
Sashiko embroidery, that reaches flow state rhythmic sewing is the ultimate goal.
Wellness through sewing
Absolute beginners, masculine and feminine projects.
Calm, inclusive and safe creative space
The groups have a very warm, gentle and inclusive feel to them. The atmosphere is lighthearted and fun learning, with no hint of perfectionism.
We use simple boho freestyle Sashiko embroidery in the designs, this allows the mind to relax into the rhythm of freestyle stitching, which can ultimately lead to flow state.
And a lovely piece is created to keep.
What we do?
- We provide the project kits, tools and relaxed stitching support. We can work directly with your venue providers and have a little black book of lovely places and food. You provide the people and the wish list.
- We listen. We want to hear your wishes, goals, and challenges for the event – so we will ask questions and really listen. We will suggest an event plan created to meet goals, focussing on the aspects that are really important to you. And revisit until you are happy. We love it when a plan comes together.
- Host a relaxed sew-along. From the offset this about enjoying the creativity, not a formal class. We will demonstrate the basic techniques, and give hands on support as everyone gets comfortable with a needle and thread. It’s not teaching as such, it’s sharing the joy, passion with a few practical creative tips.
- Location – that works best for you. As a London based business, we work within the M25. The session can be in a meeting room, on a rooftop garden or a country hotel. As it is all hand sewing, we are perfect for off grid events.
- Food and flourishes. We are happy to suggest extras, food, gift bags. Perfect for a corporate board room or picnic in the park.
Hello
As this is a relatively new concept, to bring crafts and sewing for wellness – you may wonder how this will work for your people.
My career has been in The City, in large corporate organisations so I understand the dynamics, and events too – from the perspective of the organiser and the participants. Stresses build up in the workplace, and life, the need to help people to release the intense pressure that can build up is at the root of this concept.
I am a natural creative, with a very gentle, caring, positive and encouraging manner when sharing crafting skills. And keeping the group on track and focussed. I have a broad spectrum of crafts abilities and I am passionate about sharing this. For larger events, we have a lovely team of helpful hands on creatives to help the group enjoy their sewing experience. Also with many years of experience teaching children and adults, in person and on Zoom.
A taster session is a great way to see if this is something that will work for your people. Please feel free to call, to ask all the questions that may be niggling at you about this opportunity, no obligation or pressure.
Best wishes,
Sam