Hand embroidery workshop Brighton. Using traditional hand embroidery stitches learn skills essential for getting to grips with this exciting technique.

Hand Embroidery for Beginners!

Giving embroidery stitches a contemporary vintage twist you will learn all the skills essential for getting to grips with this exciting decorative technique over a fun 3 week course!

This class will introduce you to a vast array of foundation stitches including, running stitch, chain and back stitch, blanket stitch, satin stitch and French knots and much more to create exciting patterns and motifs. You will then mix these stitches to gain a variety of effects, texture and how to work with traditional hoops, mixing yarns and threads to give your work a new crafty dimension.

Motifs can be designed free hand translating your own original ideas, or by working with a selection of vintage transfers provided. The possibilities are endless! At the end of this course you will have a lovely embroidered sampler!

*7 til 9pm*

FEB 11th, 18th and 25th

£55 for this 3 week course, get your spot here! http://handembroiderybrighton-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/

This includes all materials + printed handout booklet of stitch techniques + Tea and cake!
Contact us at supersuperhq@gmail.com or 01273 773910

Come and learn how to use a combination of crochet stitches to shape and make a selection of Christmas tree bauble and shapes! Once the crochet is done we will use traditional Hand Embroidery to add a little extra jazz to your festive tree decorations!

£20 per person with a max of 6 places!

All materials included + Tea&cake. A basic knowledge of crochet is essential… email supersuperhq@gmail.com to book your spot!

Last Friday night during our monthly Stitch&Bitch we were totally thrilled to be presented with the most amazing gift!! Yep this painstakingly hand embroidered piece is a magical bar code that when scanned will lead you happily to our website. Genius! Craft+Technology= win. We were literally gobsmacked! You can see and scan the embroidery in our window display so pop on down.

A massive thank you to Stephen Collier for his sheer embroidery genius x

Over the past two months we have been running a selection of 2 hour ‘taster’ classes at S+S HQ as a way for novis crafter’s to try a new exciting skill, or several! Due to a huge success we have decided to continue running taster classes throughout Sept too. So come on down and try your hand at one of our top 3 craft techniques for a snip of the price of a full course… Each will be followed by a more in depth 4 week course in which you can really get to grips with your chosen craft and make something exciting to take home! Examples include… embellished shoppers, crochet granny squares, macramé lamp shade!

All session prices include ALL materials, comprehensive printed handout of technique and refreshments! Taster class prices are £15 or £20, and a full 4 week course is £55

For full information on each class see our ‘What’s on’ page!

Next taster classes:

Hand embroidery – Monday 20th 7 til 9pm

Macramé – Tues 21st August 7 til 9pm

Crochet – Saturday 25th August 10am til 12pm

Email supersuperhq@gmail.com or call 01273 773910 to book a spot.

If you are pottering in Brighton town tomorrow (Tuesday 5th) do pop in to Fabrica between 10am and 1.30pm and get your stitch on. Us Super+Super gals are hosting a morning of free Hand Embroidery tutorials. Hand Embroidered hanky’s to be precise!

Due to the unstructured nature of the event, attendees will be encouraged to jump in and start learning on arrival and just have a go! There will be numerous examples, books and hand outs to inspire and instruct. We will encourage learners to generate their own designs and colour combinations, to work with mixing different types of yarns to push any pre-conceived ideas about hand embroidery.

All you need to bring is yourself, S+S will be providing the embroidery threads and yarns, embroidery needles, printed hand-outs of stitch techniques, cotton handkerchiefs and plenty of books, magazines and images to inspire!!!

See you there…. craftaganza rules!

Saturday gone Super+Super welcomed Zara Wood aka Woody and Miss Amy Phipps to host our much anticipated Creating Characters workshop, previously held at YSP and Fingal Arts Dublin. With a window cram packed with Woody’s hand illustrated characters and stacks of colourful threads, books and scraps of magazines to aid the imagination our excited group of attendees let loose on their sketch books to create some crafty magic of thier own!

The first half of the day was spent with Zara creating their very own character – picking up useful tips on sourcing inspiration, fully utilising sketchbooks and ‘getting into’ the creative process.

Then working with both Amy & Zara on translating characters through hand embroidery onto fabric, framing them in lovely wooden hoops to make a one off very personal artwork.

Thanks to Woody and Amy for a truely creative and inspiring workshop. Watch this space for dates of our autumn Characters event!

Quotes from previous attendees:

‘Thank you! You’ve made sketchbooks anti-panic & doodles a stitching heaven’

Josie attending the workshop at YSP

‘An excellent course – I learned so much and feel inspired to keep going.’

Liz attending the workshop at YSP

Another little fellow has arrived at SuperSuper HQ! Say hello to Ana. She’s blooming marvellous and is our 8th installment from the marvellous Zara Wood. Pop down and have a good stare at the exhibition if you haven’t already.

Monday is almost done and S+S wants to wish you all a lovely evening by introducing the latest Character to appear in our window…Eleanor!

Last Friday saw the installation and unveiling of our much anticipated window exhibition by Zara Wood aka Woody. Running alongside the Creating Characters Workshop happening May 26th Zara will be introducing a new character to the window every few days…