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MODERN TEXTILE QUILTER
Whether I'm hosting one or taking part in one, a workshop is a safe place for opportunity, expression and freedom, a chance to share with a like-minded community.
A simple project or subject usually forms the platform for the storytelling, but what follows will be a very personal adaptation of the same theme.
Private tutoring, bespoke sessions and open studio days can be arranged on request.
With the structure of the original guidelines and a banter with a new community, you will find bravery amongst your choices.
Workshops are brilliant for rule breaking, and will liberate even the most traditional of thinkers, exposing and inviting them to a brave new world with a willingness and enthusiasm to keep an open mind.
To book a SewJo workshop, I have prepared various options with booking forms to download
- BLOCKBUSTERS booking form
- IMPROVISATIONAL SEWING booking form
Alternatively, please email email Jo@SewJo.co.uk or call Jo on 07961 364911.
I'm thrilled to welcome you to my new sewing studio - a tranquil haven of calm, colour and creative expression. Whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned maker, I invite you to join me in this supportive space.
Here, you'll cultivate your creativity, enjoy the company of like-minded people, and escape the everyday, even if just for a while.
Blockbusters
A beginners crash course. Seems obvious, but a good place to start is at the beginning! For those either starting out, or the others who are revisiting sewing and want to refamiliarise, this short course will find you creating pieced fabric blocks that cover all the main shape disciplines. We will tackle the fundamentals of quilting from piecing and simple quilt top design, through to binding and finishing.
An eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary, we can explore adaptations of the techniques to modernise things before all of this gets too grown up!
All materials, fabrics and equipment at the sessions are provided.
Please download the booking form
Improvisational Sewing
I'm going to take what you thought you knew about sewing and change it up a little!
This is a fun session. Any previous sewing experience is useful, but certainly not essential as we won't be following many rules!
With a far more intuitive sewing approach, you will use a freeform style and simply enjoy the process, not perfection.
As your fabric piece comes together, you will be guided by its own path of discovery.
We will also quilt with a far freer style, and your finished piece will be one of unexpected pleasure and delight.
I often see this session as one of almost therapy, you can truly let go, and let rip! You will find yourself breaking down boundaries, using colour combinations you've never considered, and arriving at something very surprising and pleasing.
All materials, fabrics and equipment at the sessions are provided.
Please download the booking form
The Business of Colour
For those with some experience, or have done my Blockbuster course, The Business of Colour will develop your skills and extend your approach to colour consideration. We will be using simple overlapping colour blocks to create dimension, perspective and depth, and look into contrasting colour relationships to create that wow factor when two dimensions become three.
All materials, fabrics and equipment at the sessions are provided.
Course dates to be announced soon.
