10.30am with Clare Blackmore-Davies

Unlock the secrets to achieving a perfect fit for your body and a perfect match for your style and needs, as Clare guides you through the essential skills for Pattern Adaptation.

Learn to take the most simple pattern and make it something truly special, not only ensuring a perfect fit but adding the details that will make them unique to your style and match your day to day requirements perfectly. Adaptations can be as simple as loving a good pocket to copying an interesting detail you've seen or invented, or adding flexibility into garments for medical and physical adaptation without compromising on style or fit. Whatever inspires your to elevate your sewing this talk will help guide you toward your dream wardrobe.

12pm Lizzie Everard - Betty Silk

Do you get confused by colour or wish you understood how colours go together so you can choose the perfect palette for your next project? This is the talk for you! Lizzie will teach you colour theory from the ground up – how it all works to create combinations that compliment, clash, or climb towards a popping highlight. With examples to demostrate the theory in practice, become full of the colour confidence you’ve dreamed of!

10.30am with Clare Blackmore-Davies

Unlock the secrets to achieving a perfect fit for your body and a perfect match for your style and needs, as Clare guides you through the essential skills for Pattern Adaptation.

Learn to take the most simple pattern and make it something truly special, not only ensuring a perfect fit but adding the details that will make them unique to your style and match your day to day requirements perfectly. Adaptations can be as simple as loving a good pocket to copying an interesting detail you've seen or invented, or adding flexibility into garments for medical and physical adaptation without compromising on style or fit. Whatever inspires your to elevate your sewing this talk will help guide you toward your dream wardrobe

12pm with Alison McHale

Alison Baxter will share with you how the project and exhition CRAFT SKILLS: GENERATION TO GENERATION at the Crafts Study Centre, UCA, Farnham, developed from her interest in the hidden histories of women and the skills they shared within a domestic environment. When she became a Grandmother Alison considered how she would fill that role and how her own grandmother had influenced her life, particularly with the heritage textile techniques she shared with her.

Three textile craft skill-based workshops held at the Crafts Study Centre during October 2025, with artists Alison Baxter, Mona Craven, and Louise Andersen facilitating learning of how to knot threads to form new surfaces, like lace, how a cloth could be created from fragments of fabric, and how simple embroidery embellishments elevate cloth into revered heritage items and/or works of art. The exhibition includes work form the CSC Collection, by the artists, workshop participants and their inherited textiles.

2pm with Tony Rea

My talk “Sew… how did I get here” is the story of how I got involved in making, my experience on GBSB and my journey through to the final and beyond and how I know think I’ve found my people

drop-in sessions, Saturday all day.

The sessions will run as a drop-ins for children but adults are also welcome (children under eight must be accompanied by an adult).

learn how to sew a simple block for quilts for project Linus.

Project Linus UK mission is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children, who are sick, disabled, disadvantaged or distressed by donating gifts of NEW, HOMEMADE, WASHABLE quilts and blankets, lovingly made by UK volunteer knitters and quilters.

Young Quilters

Project Linus UK