The Make It Room offers workshops for a number of crafts.
You can choose from feltmaking, art, clay, silver, sewing, and handicrafts, sugarcraft, bookbinding, jewellery making, decoupage, lampshade making, ragrugging, embroidery, enamelling, encaustic, art, polymer clay and lots more.
They also offer some craft workshops for children during the school holidays and new workshops are added regularly to their calender.
Head to their website for more details http://www.themakeitroom.co.uk
If you were to go into a clothing factory and have a look around, youd see the huge amount of wastage that occurs during the manufacture of clothing. There is quite literally tons of it which usually just gets binned then ends up at landfill sites.
However now companies have been set up to redevelop and recycle old clothes and waste. One particular company works with the cotton waste and the scraps are mulched into something like cotton wool, ready for re-spinning into a new cotton yarn, which can then be used to make a new garmet.http://www.howies.co.uk/mens/features/mens-recycled-cotton-clothing.html
You can also earn some money from your old clothes and not by selling them on ebay but to companies set up for this reason. Return to Earn is just one of those – http://www.returntoearn.co.uk/?gclid=CITn7LvVj68CFc0htAodRRtsyA – all you do is request a bag from them, fill it with your old clothes then they will send you a cheque for him.
Failing that you can recyle your own clothes into different outfits, for instance, you could transform a man’s shirt into a dress. Just go here for ideas http://recycledcrafts.craftgossip.com/transform-a-mens-shirt-into-a-dress/2009/04/30/
There are lots of ideas from websites with some of my favourites below –
http://hideyourarms.com/2009/09/29/how-to-customize-recycle-t-shirts/
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Whole-New-Wardrobe-by-Recycling-Your-Clothes
http://www.retrosewing.net/design-your-own-clothes.html
http://www.vintagedubonton.com/pages/about-us-contact
http://www.thriftyprincessstudio.com/
If you do have a go at recyling your own designs do let me have some photos to put on this blog.
Apparently rising numbers of women are turning to DIY and skilled traders, from plastering, decorating, plumbing and tiling.
Some are learning to improve their home but others are setting up their own businesses.
There are DIY workshops across the country which have been organised by B&Q and they have been experiencing a fivefold increase in female take-up in the last year.
Some 3,200 enrolled in classes in July 2012 compared to 592 at the same point last year.
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