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Sew your own: Growing skills and confidence, connecting communities and re-working fashion.
Women of St Helens will have the opportunity to take part in an innovative 6 week course working with recycled fashion.
This free course is brought to you by the Wellbeing Project and Sew Your Own and will include workshops on:
• Basic hand sewing skills
• Machine sewing skills
• How to customise clothing
• How to make bags, cushions and accessories
Course tutor Ally Burr explains how “participants will be encouraged to turn unloved items of clothing and fabric into something new and exciting”.
The project has been funded by IdeasTap - a creative network for emerging arts talent with support from the Wellbeing Project - a health and wellbeing social enterprise based in Halton and St Helens.
The programme aims to nurture the creative energies and natural talents of local people by turning their hand to making something sparkly and new from something old and tired.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to customise clothing, make simple bags, cushions and accessories.
The course will commence on Wednesday 24th February 2010, 1.00pm - 3.30pm at the Wellbeing Project HQ, 5 Haydock Street, St Helens, WA10 1DD and will run every Wednesday for 5 weeks thereafter.
If you’d like to book a place, or would simply like more information contact:
Paula Gamester at the Wellbeing Project T: 01744 26444 E: paulagamester@hotmail.com
www.wellbeingproject.co.uk
NOTES:
The Wellbeing Project Community Interest Company was set up in 2006 in Halton and St Helens. We provide a range of community based activities for everyone who would like to improve their mental wellbeing.
Sew Your Own is a fledgling social enterprise founded by Ally Burr that aims to encourage people from all walks of life to recycle old clothing and fabrics into something new and exciting.