DATE, TIME AND LOCATION
6-9pm on Tuesday 13th May, Tuesday 20th May and Tuesday 27th May 2025
32 Bocking Street, London, E8 3FP
The workshop will take place in our workshop space just around the corner from Broadway Market. It's about 15 minutes walk from Bethnal Green tube station, 10 minutes from London Fields and Cambridge Heath Overground stations.
CLASS OVERVIEW
To help celebrate the launch of Lauren's brand new book we're hosting her for a very special course to learn to make one of the projects from the book. Join us over the course of three evenings to make your own patchwork jacket! There is nothing cozier than a patchwork jacket for warm summer nights. The new pattern by Lauren Macdonald (@working_cloth on Instagram) is a beautiful patchwork design and the opportunities to mix and match colours, patterns and fabrics are endless! Each week Lauren will cover the techniques for assembling your pieces and final jacket, with some homework to complete between each class. At the end of three sessions, you will have your own, totally unique patchwork jacket! Every student will also receive a copy of the book, full of other inspiring patchwork projects.WHAT WILL THIS COURSE COVER?
+ How to adapt the size of the jacket using extra rows of patchworking
+ How to cut and prepare fabric for patchwork
+ How to sew patchwork together for a neat finish
+ How to piece patchwork together to create your jacket
+ How to appliqué by hand
+ How to hand quilt your pieces
+ How to finish quilted garments
WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?
This class is suitable for confident beginners and intermediate sewists. You need to know how to use a sewing machine and feel comfortable with skills like inserting a sleeve!
This class will use the jacket pattern from Lauren’s new book. In the class, Lauren will help you to adapt the pattern to your size.
CLASS INCLUDES:
STUDENTS NEED TO BRING:
+ 3.2m of lining fabric.
+ Approx 3.2 x 1.2m of wadding.
+ 3.5m of 5 cm bias binding for binding the outside of the jacket. There is also an option to bind the internal seams, which requires 13.5m of 1.2cm wide binding.
+ Matching regular thread for piecing your fabric together.
+ 3 x 40m skeins of sashiko thread or 2 x 80m spools of Perle 8 cotton thread for quilting the jacket.
TEACHER BIO
Lauren MacDonald is a multidisciplinary designer, writer, and the founder of textiles studio, Working Cloth. Her approach and aesthetic have been tempered through academic studies in material culture and textile science, vocational experience in the fashion industry, and an ongoing obsession with materiality, form, and function. Her practice is focused on traditional textile handcrafts and spans interaction design, installation, sculpture and stitched form. Her first book In Pursuit of Color: From fungi to fossil fuels: uncovering the origins of the world's most famous dyes was released in February 2023 and her second book Piece by Piece: 20 Modern Patchwork and Quilting Projects to Make From Preloved Fabrics will be released May 2025.
WHERE?
The workshop will take place in our studio around the corner from Broadway Market. We have a dedicated workshop room at the back where you can sew in peace and still see the hustle and bustle of the shop. It's about 15 minutes walk from Bethnal Green tube station, 5 minutes from London Fields and Cambridge Heath Overground stations. The studio is at ground floor level with no steps. It is fully accessible and has a fully accessible toilet.
WHAT PAST STUDENTS SAY:
"I had the BEST day, just a very relaxing space with no distractions. I also gained loads of confidence."
