Print Gocco Day Workshops
November 3, 2011 at 9:30 am | Posted in Events, Workshops | Leave a commentTags: London, print gocco, workshops
Xtina has two all day print workshops lined up for Gocco fans. Firstly, remember remember to visit Shepherds Falkiners‘ fine paper shop in Bloomsbury on the 5th of November – for a day of Gocco printing using hi-mesh masters and oil based inks. Gocco bulbs will flash like fireworks and ooos and ahhs will ring out at a lovely explosion of prints made from your own artwork.
There will be examples of Gocco work, tips for getting the best results and ideas such as how to re-use damaged screens. You can also try out the squeegee printing method. Shepherds will be supplying fine papers to print on. You’ll take home your screen and prints.
Book via Shepherds 020 7831 1151 or matt@bookbinding.co.uk
£60, max 5 places.
Part two takes place at Xtina’s studio at Craft Central in Clerkenwell on Sunday 4th December, and promises a day of Gocco screen printing and experimentation. Make screens from your own artwork using the Gocco machine and Riso mesh. Stretch the mesh on a thin plastic frame, then print with a lightweight squeegee and water based screen printing ink.
Try out a thermofax machine to make a screen without using Gocco bulbs, and print with texture screens and hand cut stencils onto cards, paper, notebooks and fabric. Registration techniques and lots of tips will be shared. The screens you make are yours to take home. You can carry on printing with them later with supplies easily bought from art shops, and it’s ideal timing for making Xmas cards or gifts!
Sandwiches, tea and cake are included in the price.
£60, max 6 places
Full details & online booking via Etsy
Ladies & gentlemen, the LV21 residency video…
October 12, 2011 at 1:38 pm | Posted in Events | Leave a commentHow fabulous, Gary Weston from LV21 lightship made a Seaside Sisters video during our residency, and here it is. You can see the sewing and printing workshops, adults and children running around the ship on our treasure hunt of signal flag messages, the shops, the deep sea disco, a mermaid singing, evidence that Print Gocco can make jaws drop in amazement and a lot of people having fun. The theatrical waves are shown in action and there’s us being silly at the very end. Hope you like it!
The Seaside Sisters Get Crafty Onboard LV21 from Spaghetti Weston on Vimeo.
Day six on the ship… our last day
September 4, 2011 at 8:35 am | Posted in Events | 2 Comments
We had a lovely last day on Light Vessel 21 with Print Gocco workshops, more brooch making and treasure hunts and lots of sunshine on deck. We also enjoyed the company of Bob making knots to create a fender for the ship’s little boat and the wonderful Colin and his morse code machines. During the afternoon we were treated to the gentle rhythm of morse code messages being exchanged all over the world. After a wonderful week we wave goodbye to LV21.
Day Five on the ship
September 3, 2011 at 6:45 am | Posted in Events | Leave a commentThe Seaside Sisters love all things nautical, but you won’t find any seagulls here, instead we have a love of another bird, can you guess…
Here they all are, gathered in our shop….
And this is Woo, a very special owl who is living deep in the ship’s generator room.
Day four on the ship
September 2, 2011 at 12:58 am | Posted in Events | Leave a commentHoliday memories are such precious things and we have enjoyed seeing these come to life with our Holiday Bunting workshop. We have been asking our visitors to add to our line of holiday bunting with pictures of holiday souvenirs, what they like about holidays, summer symbols and favourite seaside towns.
Day three on the ship
August 31, 2011 at 11:28 pm | Posted in Events | Leave a comment
As well as a full programme of workshops on board the LV21 we have the Seaside Sisters Shop. We are rather thrilled to have such a wonderful space to display all our seaside and nautical inspired wares. We love the brass framed port holes. This is normally the signal room from which Colin sends morse code messages. I wonder what the morse code is for Seaside Sisters?
Day two on the ship
August 30, 2011 at 11:16 pm | Posted in Events | Leave a commentOur second day on the lightship was a frenzy of brooch and pennant making with lots of lovely families.
We also made pennants specially designed for LV21. You can drop in any day this week to make you own Lightship souvenir.
We even had a coach party of children who came and took part in our Signal Flag Treasure Hunt. Have you cracked the code yet?
Thanks everyone who visited!
First day on the LV21 Lightship
August 30, 2011 at 9:37 am | Posted in Events | Leave a commentWe enjoyed a magical first day on board the LV21 Lightship. From mermaids singing and installations in cabins and engine rooms.
We are looking forward to more drop in workshops this week.
And seeing who can crack the codes in our signal flag treasure hunt.
We are here all week, 11-5pm, Gillingham Pier. Just a 10 minute walk from Gillingham station or by car, follow the signs to Gillingham Pier off the A289 (near Dickens World and Chatham Historic Docks. We have lots of activities for all ages every day this week until Saturday as well as our Seaside Sisters shop and souvenirs.
Souvenir Shop workshops – bookings open
August 7, 2011 at 10:39 am | Posted in Events, Workshops | 1 CommentTags: Kent, lightship, London, print gocco, sewing, vintage fabrics, workshops
Etsy listings are now up for workshop bookings at Craft Central in London, and the fantastic LV21 lightship in Medway, Kent. We’ve put together an exciting programme of activities to accompany our two summer Souvenir Shop exhibitions in these venues. Here’s a peep at some of the lovely things you can make with us.
Full workshop listings are on our Events page.
Pin cushion storage pots and haberdashery
Screen printing on paper and stationery with Print Gocco
Vintage inspired textile prints
The popular fabric flower brooch making and souvenir pennants workshops that we ran at Vintage at Southbank will be available on a drop in basis at our exhibition on Lightship LV21.
Vintage Festival 2011, a big thank you!
August 6, 2011 at 11:52 am | Posted in Events, Fairs, Workshops | 2 CommentsTags: brooch, craft fair, festival, London, pennants, sewing, vintage, vintage fabrics, workshops
We had a top time at the Vintage at Southbank festival last weekend. So many beautifully turned out and friendly people, and the Royal Festival Hall looking like it never has before.
Seaside Sisters souvenir pennant & brooch workshops, Vintage at Southbank
Thank you so much to all the lovely people who took part in our workshops making souvenir festival pennants and brooches. Around 140 people made something with us, and as well as being great company, they came up with some brilliant choices and really impressed us with what they made.
Fabric brooch making workshop with Seaside Sisters
Take a look at the new Seaside Sisters Facebook page for more photos from Vintage. We’d love to see your photos of our workshops and stall too. We have more workshops coming up and they’re listed on our Events page.
Vintage was the first time we’d run the pennants workshop, and it was extremely gratifying that this worked so well. We loved seeing an eager stream of makers enjoying putting together fabrics, trim and transfers to create lovely souvenirs. Our idea for this workshop was to tie together the fun of making something yourself, taking something away to remember the event by, and linking the 2011 Vintage Festival with the Festival of Britain 60 years ago. One of our first pennant makers described very similar reasons for wanting to join in, and that made us very happy!
Souvenir pennants made at Vintage at Southbank
The fabric brooch making also went down brilliantly, our big round table was constantly full. It was loads of fun for us to see people coming up with new innovations in this workshop, as it’s a very popular one that Fabric Nation has run for a few years. We really liked the little clusters of buttons, multi-layered centres, and combinations of colours that were chosen to compliment outfits. Making the brooches is quite a relaxing thing to do and good conversations sprung up around the table as people sewed.
Fabric brooches made at Vintage at Southbank
In both workshops we used our vintage and recycled fabrics stash, but we were also delighted to use the offcuts generously donated by Sanderson, from their 50s fabric collection. A lot of people got seriously excited by these beautiful upholstery textiles!
Sanderson's 50s fabrics range
A big thank you to:
Louise Kamara of the Eco Design Fair and Barley Massey of Fabrications, who curated and organised the Upcycling Workshops at Vintage. Thanks so much for working with us!
Wayne & Gerardine Hemingway and their team for having such excellent vision, coming by to personally see to some of the logistics of setting up our area, and generally being fantastic.
Susan Backhouse of Fashion Antidote, our lovely workshop neighbour who lent us an excellent sewing machine when our vintage one decided to have a huff.
Leona Thrift-ola, for bringing us beer and blogging until her fingers nearly caught fire.
Although we were too busy running the Seaside Sisters stall and workshops to get a proper look at everything going on, we did get some nice glimpses on mad dashes away from our post. Crazy dancing on the Style Studio balcony, great vibe and stories in the Down The Back Of The Sofa bar and museum (loved the unlucky dip!), hilarious Bad Art Salon, roof garden area / rooms / balconies we’d never discovered before, the wonderful London Printworks Trust who were doing amazing prints with transfer dyes, and we enjoyed seeing the backstage area where we chatted to famous folk in the lift.
Seaside Sisters stall at Vintage 2011
The Upcycling area had stalls set up on vintage furniture supplied by Out Of The Dark. We weren’t sure what to expect, but it worked really nicely. The Seaside Sisters stall was mainly on a pretty 1950s upright kitchen cabinet. We were selling vintage souvenirs to compliment a big theme in our work, and it was lovely hearing the stories that were triggered by them for our customers. Adam Ant stopped by the day he played in the Vintage Revue, to buy an Elvis bag and some beauty spots. We’re not sure if he wore any on stage but would love to find out!
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