Programme of Saturday Workshops
2025/2026
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Whether you are just beginning or have been embroidering for years – rise to the challenge and try your hand at something new!
Saturday Workshops are held at
St. John the Baptist Church Hall, Robin Hood Lane,
Kingston Vale, SW15 3PY Map
and normally run from 10.30am – 4.30pm.
For details, prices, and to book a place on a Saturday
workshop, please fill in our contact page HERE and our membership secretary will answer your queries.
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2026
24th January 2026
Richard Box
Picture it in Collage & Stitch
28th March 2026
Cas Holmes
Extreme Stitching
Referencing ideas surrounding hand stitch and the principles of Mouttainai (too good to waste) as a primary mean for creating marks and textures.
We will explore a range of found cloth and paper surfaces and different threads to build up a range of distressed, torn, manipulated and collage surfaces to create new elements of interest in your work.
18th April 2026
Free to members
23rd & 24th May 2026
Ali Ferguson
Stories from the Sewing Room – Cloth Collage
Sharing stories and relaxed hand-stitching inspired by memories of sewing, old haberdashery items and school sewing notes – Ali will share her relaxed approach to creating a gorgeously scrappy collage where fabrics are ripped and layered, printed words are highlighted, and personal words are hand stitched. She’ll show you how to add simple stitched motifs – all adding to your ‘sewing’ story. Time is given to every part of the process, from choosing the materials, to laying out your design, slowly & deliberately.
20th June 2026
Batool Showghi
Responding to a recent impression or an event using textiles and stitching.
Use the theme above to create a landscape or an event or a portrait or anything or anyone that has recently made an impression on you. Practice choosing a series of mixed materials to create and convey your ideas in form of a small concertina book or a wall piece.
25th July 2026
Jayne Emerson
Fabric Recipes
A day of experimentation, play and word prompts. Mixing up techniques, breaking the rules and not thinking about end results.
What if you weave on your sewing machine, mix gel printing with patchwork, make vintage fabric modern?!
Lean into colours and fabrics that bring you joy and follow your instincts and design through doing.
Amanda Clayton
2 days – 19th & 20th September 2026
Quietly Composed
Aimed at those who wish to explore observational starting points and develop personal ideas through cloth and hand stitch.
Enjoy the calming nature of hand stitch whilst absorbing the serendipity of composition, with a pared down palette of neutrals you will explore the techniques of cutwork, darning, applique, layering and inlay using transparent qualities as well as your favourite cloth qualities. You will work towards developing an individual series of work from your own visual language.
We will introduce or revisit the essential formal elements and discuss what we believe is meant when we ‘label’ work such as abstract, semi-representational, figurative, illustrative and primitive.
Kingston Stitchers 