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A huge thank-you to all who joined us at Finishing School for our return to form in the guise of a crafty bookbinding lesson hosted by Lyndsey Seaborn. Tucked away at the back of the ever-so-glamorous Drink, Shop, Do in Kings Cross, twenty eager women sat down to be taught the intricacies of constructing, binding, [...]
After a short hiatus Finishing School is back! We’ve got a new venue, new classes and, lets face it, our appetite for cocktails, crafts and chatter never really went away… Check out our upcoming bookbinding event on 23rd September. See you there!
I spent an evening this week baking enough Christmas cookies to sink a ship (or host a Finishing School Christmas party). If you’d like to have a go at making your own, here’s my nan’s recipe. You might want to kit yourself out with a nice set of cookie cutters before you start and these [...]
Here are some statistics from Finishing School’s lesson in lino-cutting and fabric printing night that took place at our brand new venue the Island Queen on 26th October. Teacher = 1. East London printmaker Catherine Walsh was on hand to suggest block carving techniques and provide design inspiration for all. Head over to her webpage [...]
Firstly, Social Knitworking is an awesome name. Secondly, it’s the title of a really interesting project belonging to design graduate Hilary Grant and creative research organisation Distance Lab. Amazingly, these smarty pants people have developed a computer programme that analyzes online text and detects conversational patterns (for example, frequently used phrases or sentiments) and outputs [...]
Finishing School lesson three (needle felting) was a great success thanks to Susanna Wallis and, of course, our ever-expanding band of eager students.Thanks to everyone who turned up and vented their frustrations by repeatedly stabbing a tiny ball of wool. I’m sure it was 90% creativity, 10% therapy for most! There were some really interesting creations [...]
My current craft project is making pendants and brooches from a recently re-discovered stamp collection and an industrial-sized box of microscope slides. It turns out I was a secret geek as a child and gathered stamps on all subjects from Russian space exploration, to figures from children’s stories, to the animals of the Galapagos. I [...]
What a fantastic evening! Finishing School was bursting with eager artists at our second lesson: life drawing. Louise Reade managed to calm us down, suppress the giggles and get us to focus on making that first mark and loosening up our personal interpretations of the human body, helped by our superb model Steven Wheeler. It’s [...]
I promise that I will do my best: To love learning new things, To share both wine and my ideas, To help other people and To keep Finishing School fun.* As our very first Finishing School gets closer Fiona and I have been scooting to-and-fro shopping, trimming, winding, glueing and planning. [...]
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