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Bunting Making Workshop

BUNTING GALORE!

 

We’ve been making quite a bit of bunting lately, there are so many celebrations going on, what with weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and lots more ‘happenings’ there has been so much to do.

 

So we have given bunting the ‘Joy To Make’ treatment and it looks great, using cottons and cotton mixes which have a fantastic range of colours, they vary in width so you can get quite a lot of triangles out of a small amount of fabric.  We match the colours to either a logo or theme and then vary fabrics with patterns to complement it.

loughborough-ladies-circle-bunting

The letters were bonded to the fabric and then sewn round to keep them in place and finally the top tape was sewn into place.  We try to keep the strings to no more than 3 metres, as if you have a tent to put them up in or around then they should fit ok.

cutting-letters-bunting

We held a great workshop recently where it was all hands on deck to create bunting, we had cutters for the cloth, machinists to sew up, more cutters creating letters and an ironer! It was great fun, a well oiled production line (well with the help of Proseco anyway).

sewing-flags-bunting

So if you need a bunting workshop or just bunting, Joy to Make can help, just give us a call.

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Christmas Sewing Workshops

Sewing Christmas decorations

Our Christmas Sewing Workshops have now finished, we had so much fun making new friends and fun decorations, we’re definitely looking forward to doing it all over again next year.

Here’s a glimpse of what got made over the three workshops:

 

Bunting seemed to be the most popular so we have decided to run a bunting workshop in the new year!

Our Ginger Bread Christmas decorations were well received also, these were made out of scraps of old orange coloured material.

Once again we were all pleased with everybody’s enthusiasm and different styles of creativity. Our workshops are all about exploring your own abilities and styles, not just us telling you what to make!

We would like to thank all those that came and we hope to see you again some time in the future or at another workshop!