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This dry flowers seasonal wreath making kit includes everything you need to create a stunning dry wreath. You'll receive a ready made rattan wreath base, selection of dry flowers, grasses, foliage - each set will be different. There will be enough materials to create half wreath or moon shape wreath.

 If you are particular about the style of the piece you'll be creating, or the colours you'd like to see in your space - do make a note when placing an order, or send me an email with your chosen colour scheme - i'll do my best to help.

As we will be working on seasonal materials, the best available ingredients will be changing slightly and so will the look of the wreaths, every season has different treasures to offer ! :)

You will learn:

About the ingredients we will be using and other materials that you can incorporate in floral wreaths
How to pick the right ingredients for your wreath
The techniques of arranging floral materials and make sure they look fabulous on your wreath
How to make sure your creation lasts a long time


Obby - Discover London's favourite classes and workshops.

Seasonal Dry Flower Wreath Making Kit

Super stylish and made by you! These earrings are easy to put together, lightweight, and so effective. This kit is the perfect project for a beginner, and especially if you love your accessories to give that extra pop of colour to your outfit.

You will learn how to pin and loop beads, and connect hoops to make a simple drop earring. The beads included are all made of real semi-precious stones.

Please note that to complete this kit you will need a basic set of pliers (round nose pliers, flat/chain nose pliers, and cutters). If you don’t have any please pop over to our website and on the Bead Shop Tools page, you can find a set of basic pliers starting at £12.
https://nadiaminkoff.com/workshops/bead-shop/tools/

*Please note, there may be minor variations in the contents compared to the images. Our kits are made in the UK so if we run out of any beads or parts we will substitute them with something very similar and within the same colour and theme. There will always be enough to complete your creation.

Safety note: When you make your jewellery, there will be small discarded parts such as ends of metal pins, wire etc, that need to be disposed of carefully, especially if you have small children nearby.

Semi-precious Rainbow Earring Kit

Everything you need to create your own dream clutch! This learning bag kit is the perfect opportunity to express your creativity.

Become a bag designer in an afternoon, with our practical approach and guidance. Research your designs, test them out, then put your ideas into action. Immerse yourself in the process, as you apply your surface pattern design to the leather. Then follow the instructions and voilå your own unique leather clutch!

The leather in this kit is pre-consumer waste from the upholstery and manufacturing industry in London and is lined with cotton.

Bag dimensions:
Height 15cm x Width 21cm

Leather Clutch Kit

In this class

Working  from our outdoor workshop at Hackney City Farm, with just three tools, you will make your own cooking spoon from a locally grown tree. This course covers axe skills and safe knife grips. Aimed at both complete beginners and those who’ve made spoons before and would like to develop their skills and designs.

You can follow this course up with our Bowl Carving course, or Bowl Turning with our sister school (London Green Wood Turning). Or if you want to begin with something simpler, start with our Make a Spatula course. If you really catch the bug you can join the Induction to the Workshop course and become and member of our cooperative.

Low income rates available on mid-week course dates, contact us for details.

We work outdoors in all weathers, please come prepared.

Spoon Carving Workshop

We've all got that item of clothing that's very important to us, not for sentimental reasons - it just looks so damn good! And the thought of its lifespan coming to an end fills us with horrific dread and makes your stomach turn inside out.

But fear no more!

This workshop will teach you different techniques on taking patterns from your favourite items of clothing, without even having to unpick the original, meaning you can copy that favourite pair of jeans that make your butt look super good!

Bring along 2-3 garments that you would like to take patterns from.

You will:

Enjoy a creative way to spend a day
Meet other fashion lovers!
Receive take home a paper pattern of your chosen garment

COVID-19 Update:

Your safety is important to us!

We will now be reducing the size of the workshop from 6 people to 3 people per class, to adhere to the social distancing measures. As we are reducing the class numbers, it is important that students adhere and respect our cancellation policy, until we can get business back to normal, and teach at the required capacity.

On entering, we will have sanitiser stations for you to to freshen up. All machinery, sewing stations, and tools you will be using, will be sanitised before you arrive, and between each session.
At your sewing station you will also have sanitiser wipes, should you feel you need to use them.
Our lavatories are communal, but they will be supplied with santiser wipes, hand wash and disposable towels

Beginners Pattern Cutting: Clone your Clothes

Mend your makes and your mind in this two-hour sewing surgery. These sessions are for people with basic or even advanced sewing skills who just need some guidance or a boost of confidence.

Bring along a project you are working on or keen to start and the friendly and experienced teachers will be able to guide you on your way.  We have some of our own projects and patterns you can use whilst in the class too.  It is best if you have some sewing experience and can thread a machine but if you just need a refresher that is fine too

This gives you an opportunity to have 2 hours you can set aside for yourself and your sewing and ask someone for help when you need it.

We can offer guidance on:

 -Dressmaking
Demystifying Pattern terminology
Techniques
Fitting
-Upcycling
-Mending
-Alterations
-Advanced Skills
-Basic Pattern Cutting

Materials
We have a selection of fabrics and trims in the studio which you can purchase or you can bring your own. You can bring your own machine if you want to practise on it or use ours.

Small class sizes so you get plenty of attention on your project.

If you know what you're doing but you want some company whilst you sew check out our new class The Sewcial.


Sewing Surgery 

In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn basic leather craft skills to make your very own personalised leather card holder. You will be guided how to, stitch, bevel, add a closure before finishing off your completed wallet with your or a loved one's initials using a hot foil stamp.

You will be guided to make your very own personalised leather wallet. Choose from a selection of reclaimed leather and a variety colorful stitching thread, to make your wallet truly unique. Chanelle will guide you on how to hammer stitching holes and use the ancient art of the saddle stitch to craft your wallet. Finishing off your completed wallet with your or a loved one's initials.

Leathercraft | How To Make a Leather Wallet Workshop

This regular class in spoon carving introduces you to the art of carving with an axe, a knife and a crook knife.
By carving a spoon, you can focus on becoming familiar with the tools of the craft without the pressure of knowing what to carve.
As you gain confidence with the tools, you begin to build a relationship with your small scale carving and understand the subtle and addictive qualities of this new hobby.

We will use green wood, freshly cut with a high moisture content. This is a beautiful and easy way to carve wood.

You are supported through the whole process and encouraged to explore carving in your own way and at your own pace. This is an exercise in slowing down and settling your attention.

All tools and materials are supplied and at the end of the session you will have your first carving started.

Creative Nature HQ is located within Thames-Side Studios, a 7-acre site of studios and workshops occupied by makers, artists, craftspeople and designers.
We are right next to the river Thames and there is plenty of free parking on site.

There are regular sessions on Saturday mornings and afternoons and on weekday evenings.

Hope to meet you soon.

Spoon Carving

Fancy yourself as a dressmaker but have absolutely no experience? Well, we have the perfect solution!

Join Craig and the rest of the Fashion Box team for a workshop aimed at complete beginners providing a complete introduction into Pattern Cutting.

You will learn about blocks, starting with the skirt block, using all of the techniques to create your very own skirt block using your own measurements, which you'll get to take home.
We will then move onto how to manipulate this block into different styles, adding panels, adding flare.. once you have learnt these techniques, you will be able to create any skirt design you wish!

A really fantastic, professional introduction to the world of pattern cutting - one not to be missed for anyone with an interest in dressmaking or fashion design!

Learn Pattern cutting basics
Draft a skirt block to your measurements
Experiment adding flare, or adding panels.

COVID-19 Update:

Your saftey is important to us!

We will now be reducing the size of the workshop from 6 people to 3 people per class, to adhere to the social distancing measures. As we are reducing the class numbers, it is important that students adhere and respect our cancellation policy, until we can get business back to normal, and teach at the required capacity.

On entering, we will have sanitiser stations for you to freshen up. All machinery, sewing stations, and tools you will be using, will be sanitised before you arrive, and between each session.
At your sewing station you will also have sanitiser wipes, should you feel you need to use them.
Our lavatories are communal, but they will be supplied with sanitiser wipes, hand wash and disposable towels

Beginners Bitesize! - Introduction to Pattern Cutting

Join us to explore and engage with nature in a new and creative way.  In this beautiful ancient woodland, we will learn, play and make at a gentle pace, immersing ourselves in nature and supporting our wellbeing.
The session is led by Stephen Stockbridge, sculptor, maker and Forest School teacher.
We will explore the art of carving green wood into spoons using an axe, a straight knife and a crook knife. These sessions are suitable for beginners and improvers, the course includes all the tools and materials you will need to begin your journey into spoon carving.
The session goes ahead, whatever the weather, so please dress appropriately.
There are toilet facilities on site.
Please bring a flask or bottle of water.
The entrance to the part of Lesnes Abbey Woods we will be working in is off New Road SE2 0QQ.
There will be signage to show you the way.

Forest workshop - Spoon carving

Using an axe, an adze and gouges,  make your own carved wooden bowl from a tree grown in Hackney. This is our most intensive and physically demanding course. Beginners are welcome but we recommend coming to our other one-day courses, Make a Spatula or Spoon Carving, first. You'll enjoy this course more if you've had a bit of practice beforehand.

Low income spaces available on weekday dates for this course, please contact us for details.

In this workshop

Learning how to safely use an axe, an adze and gouges, you will make a hand carved bowl from a log of wood. Using a locally grown tree and hand tools, you'll create a bowl, perfect for as small fruit bowl and for picnic-ing. We'll be working outdoors all day but you'll definitely keep warm.

Now you can

Take home your own bowl to keep or give away
Build on your new green woodwork skills and continue making in wood

Bowl Carving Workshop

Have you ever wanted to design & make a piece of your own jewellery?  Do you want to gift a unique piece of jewellery to someone close to you?  Or do you just want to learn a new skill?

Join me in my workshop in the heart of the Kent countryside for a personal tuition jewellery-making workshop and I’ll help you create something completely unique to take home at the end of the workshop.

My workshop experiences also make an ideal birthday, anniversary, wedding or Christmas gift, as well as an unusual, stag/hen or corporate team-building event.

You will learn traditional silversmithing techniques including forming, sawing, sanding, filing, hammering, annealing, soldering and polishing, and leave at the end of the workshop with your own unique piece(s) of jewellery.

As the private session is completely designed around you, you can choose to make rings, earrings, bangles, cuff bracelets, cuff necklaces, pendants, cufflinks, or anything else that you would like to try (assuming it’s possible!)

Suitable for beginners, private workshop days can accommodate 1 to 5 people in the group (price is per person), so why not get some friends / work colleagues together and come along?

You can select  a date that work for you, days run from 10:00 to 16:00

What’s included:
The silver to make one piece of jewellery*
Personal tuition in a fully equipped workshop in a delightful garden setting
A light lunch and refreshments
Fun!

*Additional silver, brass and copper can be purchased on the day if you wish to make more or different pieces of jewellery.


Private Silver Jewellery Making Workshop Day

Have you ever wanted to design & make a piece of your own jewellery?  Do you want to gift a unique piece of jewellery to someone close to you?  Or do you just want to learn a new skill?

Join me in my workshop in the heart of the Kent countryside for a personal tuition jewellery-making workshop and I will help you create something completely unique to take home at the end of the workshop.

You will learn traditional silversmithing techniques including forming, sawing, sanding, filing, hammering, annealing, soldering and polishing, and leave at the end of the workshop with your own unique piece(s) of jewellery.

As the session is completely designed around you, you can choose to make rings, earrings, bangles, cuff bracelets, cuff necklaces, pendants, cufflinks, or anything else that you would like to try (assuming it’s possible!)

You can select a date that works for you, half days day run from 10:00 to 13:00 or 14:00 to 17:00.

My workshop experiences also make an ideal birthday, anniversary, wedding or Christmas gift, as well as an unusual, stag/hen or corporate team-building event.

I can take up to a group of 5 in your private workshop (price is per person), so why not get some friends or colleagues together.

What’s included:
The silver to make one piece of jewellery*
Personal tuition in a fully equipped workshop in a delightful - garden setting
Refreshments
Fun!

Additional silver, brass and copper can be purchased on the day if you wish to make more or different pieces of jewellery.

Private Silver Jewellery Making Half Day Workshop 

There will be a choice of leather colours and you will be able to choose from gold or silver hardware. You will get expert guidance throughout your workshop by your teacher. There are a few design choices to pick from.

These are some of things you will be learning during your 1.30 hour course:

An introduction to different leather craft tools and different types of leather.
How to make a simple Key charm pattern.
Cutting your leather accessory from leather.
Marking out and cutting your leather.
Setting any hardware
Gluing and constructing the key charm.
Hot foil stamping your initials or name on leather using a professional personalisation machine.

Don't worry if you're unfamiliar with any of the terminology as you'll be given a demo of each stage and encouraged to practice on off-cuts of leather to build your confidence.

Make a Luxury Leather Key Ring and Personalise it. 

Leather craft focuses the mind, develops dexterity and creativity. During this 2 hour evening workshop you will select your own leather colour and thread, learn how to master the two-needled saddle stitching technique, use a range of traditional hand tools and also get to personalise your work with your own initials, all under the confident guidance of Garry Meehan who has run over 180 leather craft sessions with both adults and kids.

Rye Hide London was established by Designer Maker Garry Meehan. The name reflects the area of Peckham Rye, south London, where his workshop is based. Garry uses simple and traditional leather-working methods to make individually handcrafted goods, from handbags to card holders, glasses cases to change purses, which are as unique as they are functional.

Leather is a very adaptable and robust material that humans have used as long as they have hunted. The techniques and many of the hand tools have barely changed over centuries and does not take up much space; most projects can be made at your kitchen table.

The role of the Leather Artisan is seeing a real renaissance globally and Rye Hide London will regularly share ideas, tips and inspiration with fellow artisans in Scandinavia, USA, Europe, South Korea and Japan.

Leather Artisan Workshop - Make a Pencil/Glasses Pouch

Design and make your own bespoke espadrilles from reclaimed leather in our social enterprise studio!

In this three-hour workshop, you'll design and craft your own handmade pair of leather espadrilles.

Choose from our stock of leather reclaimed from local factory offcuts
Cut out your pattern, shape and pin the shoe to the sole
Handstitch the leather to the sole with waxed linen thread

Our experienced makers offer expert instruction and support, and everyone walks out in their own pair of shoes - all materials provided and no experience necessary! We use premium jute soles sourced from southern Spain, which are thicker, more robust, and comfier than any other espadrille sole we've seen, so you'll be sure to love wearing your shoes.

Each workshop includes drinks, snacks, and local East London lunch. If the weather's nice during warmer months we might be outside, otherwise we'll be somewhere cosy indoors.

Juta Shoes is a social enterprise making handcrafted sustainable leather espadrilles in London, supporting local women into work. We can also run our shoemaking workshops as bridal parties, teambuilding away days, or birthday parties - just get in touch about booking an anytime class!

Make your own sustainable leather espadrilles

Please note this class is for women only.

This is a drop in class to learn the crafty skill of pattern cutting. During this class you will have the opportunity to make a pattern from a block , adjust a ready-made pattern or even make your own block with free hand cutting style.

As a drop-in session, some, but not all of the points below will be covered over 3 hours - this will depend on your ability and how many sessions you have attended in the past:

How to take body measurements
How to adjust a ready-made pattern
How to make a free hand loose fitting  block to your size
How to make a skirt
Dart manipulation
How to create style lines
Hot to adjust a pattern to a different size

The class happens at the same time every week, so feel free book onto multiple sessions to continue to learn this skill!
These classes are ladies only classes for basic and intermediate levels.

Pattern Cutting Workshop


In this workshop we use a selection of beautiful dried flowers to teach you all the techniques of how to make a beautiful dried flower cloud.

We review the techniques used make the arrangement and also give you tips on how to dry your own flowers.  All materials and tools are provided and you get to take home the finished product!

The advantage of dried flowers is that they can last forever and look the same as the day you brought them home! They are sustainable, eco friendly and gorgeous.

This will bring you lots of enjoyment for years to come.

If the set dates/times don't suit you then please get in touch and we can arrangement something!

Classes are maximum of 2 people to ensure social distancing.
If you have a larger group or wish to host a corporate or private event we can do that too.

If you have a professional interest in flowers then please also check out our 1 Day Floristry as a Small Business workshop.

Create a Fluffy Flower Cloud with Dried Flowers

This is a four day course, usually taught over a long weekend Thursday-Sunday outdoors at our Hackney City Farm workshop.

This is our most in-depth course and can be adapted to all levels of experience. The aim is for you to become safe and confident with an axe and a knife. This course is designed to give participants an introduction to green woodworking using unseasoned wood straight from the log and hand tools. Suitable for all including: complete beginners, those who have carpentry experience but are new to green woodwork, and those who have done a little green woodwork and would like to learn more. We will work with locally sourced indigenous hardwoods and make a series of practice projects to give you confidence with basic green woodworking tools and techniques.

This course is also an induction to the workshop for new members of our coop (annual membership fee £50-£150, not included in the course).

Included in the price of the course is your own Mora 120 knife to use and to keep.

Low income and unwaged discounts are available for this course, please contact us for details.

In this class

Through making a series of practice projects, such as spoons and spatulas, you will learn: the principles of green woodwork, safe and confident axe techniques, knife grips from the Swedish tradition of spoon carving, tool sharpening and tool maintenance.

By the end of the course we hope participants will feel confident to continue to make things in wood, either on their own or at our regular cooperative workshop sessions. So this course should be seen as the beginning of a wood affair.

Now you can

Look after and sharpen your own tools
Continue making in wood, either at home or at the London Green Wood workshop
Give handmade presents to your friends and family
Eat with your own handmade kitchenware

Induction to the London Green Wood Workshop

You can purchase stone letter carving kits online if you wish to give it a go yourself. One of the most important techniques of Stone Letter Carving is the V cut for incised letters. This is the simplest and quickest way to make a letter in stone but done professionally not in the DIY version.

STONE LETTER CARVING classes, courses, learning kits and gifts on Obby

Seasonal Dry Flower Wreath Making Kit

Semi-precious Rainbow Earring Kit

Leather Clutch Kit

Spoon Carving Workshop

Beginners Pattern Cutting: Clone your Clothes

Sewing Surgery

Leathercraft | How To Make a Leather Wallet Workshop

Spoon Carving

Beginners Bitesize! - Introduction to Pattern Cutting

Forest workshop - Spoon carving

Bowl Carving Workshop

Private Silver Jewellery Making Workshop Day

Private Silver Jewellery Making Half Day Workshop

Make a Luxury Leather Key Ring and Personalise it.

Leather Artisan Workshop - Make a Pencil/Glasses Pouch

Make your own sustainable leather espadrilles

Pattern Cutting Workshop

Create a Fluffy Flower Cloud with Dried Flowers

Induction to the London Green Wood Workshop

Use obby giftcards
on any learning kit

STONE LETTER CARVING classes, courses, learning kits and gifts on Obby

Seasonal Dry Flower Wreath Making Kit

Semi-precious Rainbow Earring Kit

Leather Clutch Kit

Spoon Carving Workshop

Beginners Pattern Cutting: Clone your Clothes

Sewing Surgery

Leathercraft | How To Make a Leather Wallet Workshop

Spoon Carving

Beginners Bitesize! - Introduction to Pattern Cutting

Forest workshop - Spoon carving

Bowl Carving Workshop

Private Silver Jewellery Making Workshop Day

Private Silver Jewellery Making Half Day Workshop

Make a Luxury Leather Key Ring and Personalise it.

Leather Artisan Workshop - Make a Pencil/Glasses Pouch

Make your own sustainable leather espadrilles

Pattern Cutting Workshop

Create a Fluffy Flower Cloud with Dried Flowers

Induction to the London Green Wood Workshop

Use obby giftcardson any learning kit

Use obby giftcards
on any learning kit