Learning to sew is a must for everyone. Sewing is a useful and practical skill to have and allows you to create and alter clothing, upcycle fabric into new items and help promote a more sustainable approach to buying clothes, accessories, soft furnishings and gifts.
Choose a fabric to make a simple but useful drawstring bag which will incorporate all that you’ve learnt.
Learn how to:
Use a machine and get to grips with the basics, threading up, winding a bobbin, understanding different stitches, sewing curves and corners and sewing seams and hems, learning lots of practical tips along the way.
What’s included:
Fabric to practise on and fabric to make the bag
Thread
Use of all machines, tools and equipment
Your own copy of Angela’s best-selling book ‘Simple Machine Sewing’.
Your own ‘The Sewing Club’ tote bag
£5 discount off a weekly course starting in either October 2025 or January 2026
Skill level:
Complete or rusty beginner
Your tutor:
Angela Pressley is a best-selling author of sewing books. She has appeared on TV and at Stitch shows giving live demonstrations of her projects. Her sewing school ‘The Sewing Club’ has been established in Kent for over 17 years. Subsequently she has a wealth of sewing expertise and hands-on experience in teaching adults and children how to sew from beginners to more advanced levels.
What to bring:
Everything is supplied but you’re welcome to bring your own machine to learn on if you prefer but please make sure you’re familiar with it and its threading etc. This is not the workshop to learn about your personal machine.
To book please drop an email to
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£50.00
for 3 hours tuition, plus book 'Simple Machine Sewing' and tote bag
You may also like the following events from The Sewing Club:
- Next month, 20th September, 12:30 pm, Beginners Sewing Class with The Sewing Club in Herne Bay
- Next month, 24th September, 10:00 am, Alterations, Upcycling and clothing/textile repair workshop with The Sewing Club in Herne Bay
- Next month, 25th September, 10:30 am, Throwover Jacket Workshop with The Sewing Club in Herne Bay
Also check out other
Workshops in Herne Bay,
Arts events in Herne Bay,
Literary Art events in Herne Bay.
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