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Member News

April 26, 2010 in Craft Candy, Member news, Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

We have some good news for all of those who missed out on getting a place at Gemma’s Craft Candy Etui workshop recently – Gemma will be running a session in her studio in Rotherham. On Saturday the 1^st of May the button tin will be hosting its first official vintage craft workshop and afternoon tea party at the Imperial Buildings, followed by live music and refreshments from 5pm onwards. This workshop will launch a fabulous set of vintage craft workshops at The Button Tin.

Fore more information visit Gemma’s website. For those of you who can’t get to Rotherham, Gemma will be running another session for us in August in Sheffield so watch out for that!

Ceramic workshop weekend

February 8, 2010 in Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

Craft Candy’s 2010 workshop term started on Saturday and what a way to start! The fabulous Angie Hardwick taught ten lovely ladies how to make tiles, coil pots and slab pots and a good time was had by all.

We hope to have Angie teach another ceramic workshop for us later in the year, in the meantime have a nosey at these lovely photos taken on the day:

Seven Hills WI craft workshop

September 18, 2009 in Craft Candy, Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

Last night was 2nd meeting of the Seven Hills WI, the latest fabulous addition to the Sheffield social scene. I was contacted by Lindsay, group organiser a couple of months ago and told about the exciting new WI. Unfortunately I couldn’t make the first meeting but I couldn’t miss the 2nd meeting last night as I was employed as handy assistant to Lucia who taught her fabulous Birdie Brooch workshop to 50 willing ladies.

WI ladies working hard

Crafty ladies

The evening was fantastic and everyone seemed to have a really good time. This will be the first of 4 workshops that Craft Candy will be doing with the WI and I can’t wait! I filled in my form and signed up last night – anyone else feeling the urge to admit they’d always wanted to join the WI – hands up please!

Seven Hills WI

Happy workshop ladies

New monster workshop…

September 14, 2009 in Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

We have a new workshop booked in and it’s a scary one! Abi from Picky Miss is going to teach you how to make a scary sock monster (or nice cute, fluffy, harmless, toothless one – whatever floats your boat!)

Places are disappearing fast though so get booking before you miss out. Here are some of the delightful creatures to entice you (or scare you!) in to booking a place!

Flower

Times Two

Book as usual through our Workshops page. The session costs £12 for 2 hours and is on Saturday 3rd October. See you there!

Free Origami workshop at Sheffield Pride

June 24, 2009 in Craft Candy, Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

It couldn’t have been a nicer day on Saturday which is exactly what you need for an outdoor event! Last Saturday was the Sheffield Pride 2009 event in Endcliffe park and it was huge success! The weather was gorgeous, the music was great and everyone had come well prepared for a picnic in the park. Craft Candy were there teaching a free Origami workshop in the creativity tent and thanks to Yvonne our tutor, the session was brilliant fun!

Tutor Yvonne

We were really looking forward to doing this workshop because it’s a free event and they are always great fun to organise! We had a constant stream of people who dropped in some impromptu origami and lots of families with children which was great. We were in the creativity tent and had the hour slot just after the art workshop and just before the drumming session – we were glad to be out of the heat to be honest – it was nice and cool in there!

Origami papers

Yvonne brought a variety of different papers for the session and also brought with her a bouquet of ready made lilies in our signature hot pink which we gave out to people passing by and those who attended the workshop. It was a nice informal drop in type session which was great as people came and went and the hour just whizzed by – we had to turn people away in the end which was a shame but we had to make way for the drumming workshop to set up!

Making origami boxes

We also had a great little handout which featured the three more complicated models that Yvonne taught so that people could take it home and practise.

All in all a fun day was had by all, thanks to Sheffield Pride for booking us and for putting on such a great event and thank to Yvonne who stepped in to teach a great workshop!

Happy origami people!

Sweet tweet tweet…

June 10, 2009 in Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

We’re super excited about this – we’re offering our first FREE workshop here at Craft Candy, yes absolutely FREE! I sound a little like an annoying TV commercial don’t I??!?!

Craft Candy is 1 year old in July and we just wanted to be able to give something back so here it is, a free Birdie Brooch workshop with the hugely talented Betty Joy. You can go to our workshops page to register your interest and then we’re going to pick some names out of a hat and let the lucky participants know in 2 weeks.

Birdie Brooch

This is a fun and easy workshop where you will learn to make colorful birdie brooches for you or your friends, using laminated birdies in a nest of sari fabric, silk scarves, other fabrics and vintage buttons and ribbons. You will have the chance to make a couple of different brooches and will also be provided with sheets to take away providing instructions on how to make other corsages and brooches from fabric. How great does that sound?

Good luck!

Another Birdie Brooch

What a wonderful workshop…

February 8, 2009 in Workshops by Plain Jane Textiles | No comments

Craft Candy is proud to say that our very first workshop went ahead yesterday and good fun was had by all! I only had the privilege of being there at the beginning, popped back over lunch and then came in at the end to help clear up. Every time I spoke to any of the participants though I was told how much fun they were having, there is something so intriguing about bookbinding, it seemed to mesmerize everyone all day! There wasn’t quite enough time to finish the sketchbooks completely unfortunately but I’ve already started seeing pictures of the sketchbooks that participants finished in the evening at home and they look great! If anyone who was at the workshop would like to send us pictures of their finished books we’d love to put them on here.

Here are some pics we took of the work in progress…

Here’s everyone folding the paper for the inside of the sketchbook