Button Making at the Framework Knitters Museum - Intro to the Dorset Button with Felt Bookmark, Brooch or Pocket Hug
Description
Button making - intro to the Dorset button with felt bookmark, brooch or pocket hug. With this 3-hour relaxed and convivial workshop, I will introduce you to this 400-year-old heritage craft, which is the Dorset button with the most well-known type: the cartwheel. I will provide you with everything you need, show you the techniques with a few extra tips along the way from the very start, and up to how to attach the finished button on your project. This is a project-based workshop, which means that at the end of it, not only will you be able to make a Cartwheel Dorset Button, but you will take home a beautiful felt bookmark, brooch or pocket hug, ornate with your button and some simple embroidery stitches of your choice. In fact, you are not pressured into making something I specified...if a scissors keep or a hanging decoration for Mother's Day is more your thing, then go with that! :-) I will need a minimum of 4 participants to run this workshop and I will have a maximum of 12 spaces available. Please let me know via the 'message the tutor' button if you have any dietary requirements, allergies, etc... If I have to cancel due to minimum number of participants not met or any other reason, a full refund will be given.
What's included in the price?
- All materials (and plenty of it!) and tools required, plus a little more for extra practice at home. - In person expert tuition and guidance in a small group setting (12 people max). - Tea/coffee and cake (please let me know if you have any dietary requirements, allergies, etc...). - Dedicated WhatsApp group (optional - more info available on request), which will be open 2 weeks before the workshop, and 2 weeks after the workshop, where you can ask any questions, get updates or important information on the workshop, get extra guidance or refreshers after the workshop if needed, share photos of your makes after the workshop, etc...
Duration
3 hours
Cancellation policy
Easy - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 2 weeks before the course starts
Maker
Suitable for
- Adults
- Seniors
- Teenagers
- Wheelchair users
- Hearing impaired
- Limited mobility
- Mother's Day
- Public transport
- Suitable for beginners
- Intermediate level
FAQs
There will be tea and coffee facilities in the room included in the price of the workshop. The museum has a café from where you will be able to choose a cake (also included in the price of the workshop). Any additional beverages, any barista beverages or additional food ordered will as an extra charge.
The room where the workshop will take place is wheelchair accessible, and there is an accessible toilet and baby change facility there. Assistance dogs are welcome.
There are no disabled parking spaces, but people with mobility problems can park outside the museum on Chapel Street (not outside residential buildings)
You can hire a wheelchair or walker free of charge from Ruddington Parish Council on Church Street.
There are bus stops near to the museum and all buses serving Ruddington are wheelchair accessible
Please note that the museum has no car park.
Chapel Street is a cul de sac with very limited space, so please don’t park here unless you have mobility problems. Ruddington has plenty of free on street parking. You can also park for free at the Co-op car park on Church Street.