Button Making at the Newstead Centre - 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...so 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 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
Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts
Maker
Suitable for
- Adults
- Seniors
- Teenagers
- Wheelchair users
- Hearing impaired
- Limited mobility
- Mother's Day
- Parking provided
- Suitable for beginners
- Intermediate level
- Public transport
FAQs
Free car parking facilities include disable car parking spaces.
The Newstead Centre and in particular the room where the workshop will take place is accessible for wheelchair users, with ramp to the main Reception, and disabled friendly facilities including toilets.
This purpose built conferencing and office facility is ideally located for access from both Mansfield and Nottingham and is less than 3 miles from Junction 27 of the M1 motorway. It also has excellent public transport links being just a 1 minute walk from the train station and 5 minutes from excellent bus routes through to Nottingham and Mansfield areas.
There are free Car Parking facilities on-site including Disabled car parking spaces which can accommodate up to 95 vehicles.
Yes. Tea / coffee and cake are included in the price of the workshop. Please be sure to let me know if you have any allergies or dietary requirements. The Newstead Centre also has a café where you will be able to purchase additional drinks or snacks as you wish.