Green & Thrifty Fortnight 2025 with Hampshire Libraries!

This week I have been travelling around Hampshire delivering eco-friendly textile repair and reclaim workshops for Hampshire Libraries. Regular readers will remember that I did this last year too.

For this year's sessions I ran another patching workshop, where we worked on creative ways to patch up holes in clothes and for the second workshop, I was tasked with coming up with a craft that was green, thrifty and useful in nature - so we cut up old clothing to weave into trivets and coasters! This is a bit of a fiddly task, but many of the attendees of these workshops said that they found the braiding relaxing and everyone came away with a really lovely looking creation with a huge variety in results.

Here's a few of my favourites from the week, although there were many more great makes:

I should probably add that these sessions were only 45 minutes each, which is not a lot of time to make anything, so everyone did amazingly well. Thanks to all who came along and had a go and to each of the libraries who hosted me - Fareham, Havant, Winchester, Farnborough and Ringwood.

In unrelated news, I've also been going to regular meet ups of a local collage collective and I've really enjoyed creating some new and fun things. Here's some of my collages from the last few months:

Lastly, if you are still reading this (thank you) then you should know that a piece of my work titled 'A Woman's Place' is going to be in an exhibition later this month and I'm really excited! It's free to come along to the exhibition but it's only going to be there for a super limited time so tickets must be booked in advance from here.

Bye for now, 

Sarah