Get crafty with free-motion machine embroidery

Join Teddy and Joe for a series of welcoming, creative Queer Craft Club sessions as part of Good Grief Blackpool.

Through gentle, accessible crafting, we'll create space to connect, reflect and share in a relaxed and supportive environment, exploring themes of loss, memory, resilience and chosen family.

Whether you're a regular at Queer Craft Club or joining us for the first time, these sessions offer a chance to make, chat and spend time with others in the LGBTQIA+ community.

In this session

Come along to and get to grips with the wonderfully wonky world of free-motion machine embroidery.

Using a sewing machine, you’ll learn how to draw with thread, creating your own stitched designs by moving the fabric freely beneath the needle. No previous embroidery or sewing experience needed, just bring your ideas and a willingness to experiment.

This is a relaxed, creative workshop where we’ll explore grief, loss, memory and the things we carry with us, turning thoughts and feelings into something tangible through stitch.

Expect sewing machines, thread, a bit of chaos and plenty of creative freedom. Come and make something that’s uniquely yours.

All abilities welcome.

A support worker from Listening Ears will be attending the session to offer assistance if needed.

This session is in our upstairs workshop space. We have a lift! Otherwise it is fourteen steps turn a corner and two more steps. There is an accessible loo on the same floor.

GETTING HERE

Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station

Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd

Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park.

TOP TIP: If you need to park a car, then there is usually plenty of free on-street parking on Edward St and Topping St from 6pm.

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