Please note: if you book a kit ticket after Wednesday 24 February and live outside SW16, SW17 or SW12, you do so at your own risk as there is no guarantee your kit will arrive in time for the workshop.

Get creative this National Embroidery Month and join local artist and The Woodfield Pavilion volunteer, Rosanna McNamara, for this virtual hand embroidery workshop.

With Rosanna's guidance, you will learn the basics to embroidery, how to mount a hoop, practice simple stitches and start creating your own embroidery piece.

You are free to design whatever you like, but we will be focusing on the theme of 'local' and what your local area means to you. Perhaps there's a park you enjoy visiting? A favourite local shop? Wildlife you see when out and about?

If you are based in Lambeth or Wandsworth, we would love to create a community banner made from the squares you embroider to build up a picture of Woodfield's local area! Rosanna will talk more about this in the session.

No previous embroidery or sewing experience is necessary to join. The workshop is open to all abilities and ages!

ZOOM TICKETS

- Zoom participation with embroidery kit: £10 + fees (sales end 26 Feb, 23:30)

- Concession and Member Zoom participation with embroidery kit: £7.50 + fees (sales end 26 Feb, 23:30)

- Zoom participation using own materials: by donation (suggested donation £5)

As a charity, we rely on the support of the public to keep going, especially at this time when the Pavilion has to be kept closed. We appreciate you absorbing the listing fee as part of your ticket.

EMBROIDERY KITS AND DELIVERY

The embroidery kit includes a 4" embroidery hoop, a needle, a needle threader, three embroidery threads and two squares of fabric (white and pale blue).

Kits will be sent by Royal Mail first class post to UK mainland only. If you are outside the mainland, you are welcome to join using your own materials. Kits must be purchased at least one week before the workshop to ensure delivery before the session.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rosanna McNamara currently lives in Streatham and has been working with embroidery for nearly 4 years. She teaches workshops, both in person and online, and runs a monthly SEW WHAT! craft session with Woodfield on the third Saturday of every month.

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THE WOODFIELD PAVILION

16A Abbotswood Road, Streatham, SW16 1AP

The Pavilion is accessible from Tooting Bec Common and via a path on Abbotswood Road.The Woodfield Pavilion is a refurbished community space, run by The Woodfield Project, which reopened on 30 June 2019. The Pavilion serves the communities of Tooting Bec Common and surrounding areas. It is owned by Wandsworth Council, but is situated in Lambeth.The Woodfield Project (TWP) is a registered charity. TWP aims to engage with and celebrate the diversity of its local community and natural environment and to develop the pavilion as a hub to share in culture, festivities, ideas, learning and wellbeing.

We rely on help and support from the public to carry out our work. Kindly consider becoming a member of the charity from just £10 a year, and have the right to attend and vote at our AGMs. Joining as a member also helps us go forward with funding applications, which are a vital part of the Pavilion’s income. Find out more on our website.

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