Hand-Sewing Workshop; update

Hey all, I’m not long home from the Basic Hand-Sewing Workshop, and just wanted to say how much fun I had, how great it was to meet such good students, and to throw up a picture of their handiwork (that I’m very proud of)! They came in unable to sew (mostly) and left with finished (mostly), functional bags!

The drawstring bags made by the workshop attendees

Some workshop attendees sitting around a table

Next up is the Eletro-Sewing Workshop, where we’ll get to put our new found sewing skills to good use!

Workshop: Electro-sewing

We would like to invite you to Tog’s first ever electronic sewing workshop! As a simple first project, we will be making nice looking flowers with a LED centre.

We’ll be working with silver conductive thread (instead of wire), and creating a small circuit to power the LED (small light) from a coin-cell battery. The circuit will be hidden in the body of the felt flower, and the whole lot attached through a clip. You will get your choice of fabric and LED colours, so you can make something you could actually wear šŸ™‚

If you’re interested in attending, ideally you already know how to hand sew (if not how come you missed our previous hand-sewing workshop!), but if not we’ll do our best to show you enough to complete the project on the day.

When: Friday, October 21st, from 7pm to 9pm
Cost: ā‚¬5 for non-members, free for members (all materials provided on the day)

Space being very limited, please sign up using the form below the break. and we’re full-up now! If you’d like to contact us about similar events in the future please feel free to use the form below.

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Darklight Festival

We will be hosting a unique 2 day hardware hacking area at the upcoming darklight festival. We will be showcasing a wide range of projects created by our members . LED displays, Rubens Tube, e-clothing and pin hole photography.
Over the weekend drop by and learn how to capture images with our homemade pin hole cameras.Ā BeĀ  amazed at the printing of 3D objects with our Makerbot.Ā Be flashy byĀ  making one of our LED badges.Ā Be thrilled by the heat of our infamousĀ  Rubenā€™s tube.

Darklight takes place from Thursday 20 ā€“ Saturday 22 October in the The Factory, Barrow St.Ā TicketsĀ areĀ availableĀ via the darklight website from ā‚¬10.