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Natural Dyeing with Nature – A Second Life for Scraps

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Contribution: $40 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP Do you love the thought of being able to forage in your garden and know that after you and your family have enjoyed your vegetables with dinner, you can use the scraps to dye fabrics? It’s hard to imagine how our ancestors got by without synthetic dyes but you …

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Swap ‘Til You Drop – with a Twirl and a Twist

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Contribution: $10 Ladies Clothing and Accessories Swap In 2018, we put together a fantabulous event called Swap ‘Til You Drop as part of our Common Threads Woven Through Community exhibition. It was a huge success and we had an amazing time. We swapped (our pre-loved clothes), we dropped (our inhibitions), we laughed over bubbles, we strutted out our best ‘bend-and-snap’, …

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Mindful Mandalas in The Mandala Room

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Contribution: $50 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP How would you like to create a beautiful cushion with hand stitched embroidery in the form of a Mandala? Slow Sewing is an artful, alchemical and creative engagement in the act of slowing down, increasing mindfulness and entering deeply into a state of artistic flow. When we commit to …

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Sensing Stitch with Anne Williams

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Contribution: $50 – This is a ticketed event, no door sales available Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP Hand stitching offers transformative and artistic expression in a busy and often frantic world. Join us as we work with needle and thread in a mode of personal enquiry. We will work with themes that focus on the nature …

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The Short Street Kitchen Signature Platter Lunch and Talk

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Contribution: $35 This is a ticketed event, no door sales available Common Threads Woven Through Community Are you interested in raw food and how it can make a difference to your health and the health of your family? Would you like to find out more about how to make better choices about what you eat and be inspired to make …

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Lovely Little Felt Pots

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Contribution: $40 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP Did you know this interesting fact about how felt originated? One commonly told story is that during the Middle Ages, men lined their sandals with wool for comfort. Over time, the fibres in the wool became interlocked and felted as a result of the moisture, warmth and recurring pressure …

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Repurpose Your Much-Loved Denim

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Contribution: $80 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP Do you have a wardrobe overflowing with pairs of jeans which are either too tight, too big, too flared, too straight? Or maybe you’ve come to a stage in your life when tapping into your innate creativity is calling you? Sometimes we can have an emotional attachment to throwing …

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Create an Heirloom to Treasure

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Contribution: $50 – This is a ticketed event, no door sales available Common Threads Woven Through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP A family heirloom is a direct connection to your history and if you already possess a family heirloom, it’s no doubt you treasure it. But what if you could create a family heirloom to be passed on to your loved ones …

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Repair to Rewear to ReLove

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Contribution: $30 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP If you are passionate about bringing new life into your garments, join Petra Richardson who will tell you why it’s so important that we take action in our clothing care practices to help slow fashion down and how we can Repair to Rewear our clothes by fixing them up …

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Upcycling is the New Black

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Contribution: $80 Common Threads – Woven through Community HANDS ON WORKSHOP Spend the day in the hands of an amazing fashion designer as she helps you add a nip and a tuck to your garment which will give it a much-needed facelift and make you fall in love with it all over again. With formal training in fashion design and …