Practical Slow Stitch for Beginners with Carrie McDowell | Regional Arts Workshops

Practical Slow Stitch for Beginners with Carrie McDowell
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Pop-Up Shop, Newman Town Square, Lee Lane

The fashion industry is now the world’s second largest contribution to waste. Australian’s buy more clothing per person than any other country. The average Aussie purchases 27kg of new clothing and textiles every year and discard 23kg of that. All this ends up in landfill in third world countries. Choosing to upcycle is a small contribution to saving the planet. In this workshop participants will value add and upcycle a preloved shirt or other item of clothing giving it new life (please bring to workshop). Participants will experience the meditative qualities of slow stitch using basic embroidery stitches to embellish the item .Carrie McDowell is an award-winning fibre artist based in Karratha. Carrie has been Cossack Artist in Residence and finalist and recipient for several prestigious art awards. Carrie works with small art cooperative Cheeditha Art Group, who showcase their culture and creativity of the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi people.

Capacity limited to 15 attendees.

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