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Make a Pair of Love Birds

This is a relaxed, friendly sewing class and you will learn how to use a simple pattern to hand-sew a pair of pretty love birds!
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What happens in this class?

This is a sewing class aimed at beginners but also fun for current sewers who want to progress onto making toys/decorative peices. During this relaxed, fun and chatty workshop you will learn the following:

  • Using a basic pattern to cut your material pieces
  • Running stitch
  • Back stitch
  • Blanket stitch
  • French Knots
  • Sewing buttons and beads onto your birds
  • Demonstration of how to display your birds as mobiles or on rustic twigs

You will take away with you your birds, at least one of which will be finished in the class (NB Depending on previous sewing experience, you might not…

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Things to remember

Don't forget your reading glasses if you wear them! Ginette will provide a selection of fabrics with at least two plain coloured upper-body fabrics (including corduroy) and two patterned under-body fabrics. Everything else you need to start and finish your project is included the pattern, pins stuffing…

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Age Requirement

16

Flexible cancellation policy

Any class can be cancelled and fully refunded within 24 hours of purchase. See cancellation policy.
Your Teacher

Ginette has been working with her hands - focused mainly on sewing and textile crafts - since she was a child, creating gifts for family and friends and most recently selling at local markets in her home town London. Her love of knitting was passed on from her mother but the desire to create with fabrics came from within, with Ginette sewing her first pair of trousers in Liberty fabric when she was 11. She still has expensive taste in fabrics!

Having worked in Human Resources, specialising in training within customer service and management, Ginette decided to combine her love of teaching…

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