The workshops at our Brixton market space are all finished now and it was great to see such enthusiasm for learning all the traditional textile skills like darning and patchwork. Katherine May's 'quilting & patchwork' workshop attracted 9 lovely people who sat in a circle, stitched and chatted last Saturday afternoon.

Katherine had found some hexagon templates which had been cut out from an old cornflakes boxes in a charity shop and these were used to cut out the shapes from the pile of vintage fabric that was provided. Some people had also bought along some of their own pieces of old fabric and were inspired by images and examples from Katherine's work. 

Several people commented how 'low tech' it was to be simply sitting, cutting up old pieces of fabric using an old cardboard template and hand-stitching them together. Sadly this is not what we spend our leisure time doing any more, although it brings such a feeling of calm and satisfaction.

All the participants went away with a small sample piece of patchwork and there are possible plans for Katherine to run it as a regular meet-up.

There are more images of the workshops on the bricolage flikr site and you can read Emma Neuberg of the Slow Textiles group comments on it here.