Fishes & Stitches 

Join Melanie in this 3 hour workshop to start your 14 stitch fishes challenge!

Melanie encourages playful approach to learn and explore a range of embroidery stitches, playing with colour, texture and mark making. Build a repertoire of stitches to express ideas with thread and colour.

Embroidery is a peaceful and creative pastime that fosters relaxation, refection and slowness as well as equipping one with life skills for mending, self expression with customisation for garments and projects.  

Materials and embroidery instruction booklet included. 

Skills you will gain

A range of routine and fill stitches

Examples of creative stitch samplers and Stitch-School community cloths

How to transfer motifs to fabric ready to stitch

Conversation for how to develop your skills for personal project

About your teacher

Tutor Melanie Bowles is the founder of Stitch-School and is passionate about the benefits of embroidery within communities and for individuals, and has worked on numerous community projects bringing people together through stitching and shared narratives. Her clients include the V&A, the Barbican Centre, Oxfam, Alexander McQueen, and Marie Curie. Her recent practice focuses on reflecting, extending, and building new narratives with cloth through stitching and embroidery.