Make and Reuse Creative Workshops: Create the Ultimate Workwear ‘Waste-Coat’, with Isabel Fletcher
26 November 2024
Join textile artist Isabel Fletcher for a free, four-day workshop where you’ll create your own unique Workwear ‘Waste-Coat’ using upcycled fabrics.
Learn simple sewing techniques, appliqué, and quilting as you transform textile scraps into a custom waistcoat with functional pockets and buttons. This free course is suitable for all skill levels.
What to expect over four days:
- Day 1: Meet Isabel and learn appliqué, quilting, and button techniques. Adjust the ‘waste-coat’ pattern, select fabrics, and start designing.
- Day 2: Finalise your design and create the base of your ‘waste-coat’ using quilting or appliqué.
- Day 3: Cut wadding and lining, then quilt layers together by hand or machine.
- Day 4: Add optional pockets, attach binding, and finish with a button or tie fastening.
Priority spaces on our Make and Reuse programme are offered to the North Kensington community. Spaces on this course are limited, we will notify you if you have been allocated a place.
About Make and Reuse Creative Workshops
ACAVA’s programme of free creative courses inspires us to reuse materials, contribute to the circular economy and make our everyday more sustainable. Make and Reuse Creative Workshops run from ACAVA’s community makerspace Maxilla Men’s Shed. Learn more about the programme here.
About Isabel Fletcher
Isabel Fletcher is a textile artist who explores the narratives of craft and sustainability embedded in waste materials. She views leftover scraps and remnants not as waste, but as starting points for new creations. Through her work, Isabel aims to foster empathy for possessions and inspire a reduction in consumption and waste.
Make and Reuse Creative Workshops
Create the Ultimate Workwear ‘Waste-Coat’
With Isabel Fletcher
Course dates
6, 7, 8, 9 January 2025, 10am–5pm
Deadline to register your interest
19 December 2025, 11pm
Register your interest here
Location:
Maxilla Men’s Shed
ACAVA Maxilla Walk Studios
4 Maxilla Walk
London W10 6NQ
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Make and Reuse Creative Workshops
Make and Reuse Creative Workshops is a new programme of free creative courses to inspire our community of makers to reuse materials, contribute to the circular economy and make their everyday more sustainable, running from our community makerspace Maxilla Men’s Shed.
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