photograph of decorative stiches in denim fabric

SDH staff & volunteers: Visible Mending

Date: Monday 28th April 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join Charlotte Jenner for an evening class of visible mending with stitch. You will be introduced to modern visible mending techniques borrowing from traditions such as Japanese Boro with Sashiko. Using small running stitches we will mend holes and weak areas in your garments and add beautiful fabrics to reinforce areas, prolonging the life of your garment.

This is a lovely relaxed class and you can be as neat and tidy or as free and easy with your stitching as you like!

Charlotte works as a palliative care doctor in the hospice and also runs creative workshops, teaching mending techniques and weaving. She has found that making and mending things helps her cope with the rest of her life! You can find her on Instagram @anestofgentlemakers or on her website https://www.anestofgentlemakers.co.uk

You are invited to bring along a textile garment to repair such as jeans or a shirt or jacket. Denim works really well. Charlotte will provide all of the tools needed to repair your garment and will have a selection of Japanese fabrics to work with. If you do not have anything to mend there will be the opportunity to buy a bartender's apron at a small cost (£7), which you can embellish with the fabrics provided.

You will be taught the techniques needed to secure and mend a hole in your garment and then you will have time to work on what you have brought. There will also be several examples of books and mended clothes to explore. Basic sewing skills and some dexterity would be very useful. If you can thread a needle, do running stitch and tie a knot in your thread, you can mend your clothes!"

materials and equipment for collage laid out

SDH staff & volunteers: Come & Create – April

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
Time: 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Drop in anytime 12.15pm- 13.45pm to use our creative space for your own project. Please bring your own materials and ideas to the Culture Club and enjoy sharing your project with others. This session is ideal for those who would like to bring a small craft that they are working on such as knitting, sketching, scrapbooking or beading and are happy to share some skills with interested people.

Members of the ArtCare team will be on-hand, tea and coffee will be provided. Open to SDH staff and free of charge.

printmaking materials on tables in culture club

SDH staff: Come and Create in the Culture Club

Date: Thursday 13th March 2025
Time: 12:15 pm - 6:00 pm

Bring and share your own creative project in our Culture Club space.  Drop in anytime 12.15pm- 13.45pm and/or 5pm-6pm on Thursday 13th March to use our creative space for your own project. Please bring your own materials and ideas to the Culture Club and enjoy sharing your project with others. This session is ideal for those who would like to bring a small craft that they are working on such as knitting, sketching, scrapbooking or beading and are happy to share some skills with interested people.

Members of the ArtCare team will be on-hand, tea and coffee will be provided. Open to SDH staff and free of charge.

Email ArtCare to book a place or find out more

Staff & volunteer creative lunch – Bead suncatchers

Date: Thursday 22nd August 2024
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Join us for a drop in bead session over lunchtime.  Drop in anytime 12noon - 2pm for relaxed creative activity - this month we'll be trying out bead sun catchers, follow easy instructions with ArtCare staff to help, Open to all SDH staff and volunteer and free of charge. No previous experience necessary.