Tutor profile – Iona Bruce
When we began negotiations with Iona to facilitate our Crafty Creatures craft classes for the 7-12 years age range, we got super-excited. Why? Quite simply because with her background in community arts and her passion for craft, Iona is the perfect person to encourage and excite children & young people when it comes to crafting and DIY. Iona’s website is testament to her creativity & zest for design and her blog brims over with excitement about the various crafty things that she is involved in so to have her tutor our younger friends is a coup for The Life Craft.
Therefore, we’re absolutely delighted to announce that starting on Friday 5th November 2010 at 4pm, Iona will be tutoring a 6 week intro to craft. Places on this class are limited and can be booked by emailing Vonnie or by popping into the shop.
Iona herself says, “i’m so so so excited about this, i have worked with children for as long as i can remember & absolutely love their enthusiasm & imagination. to be able to teach a group of them how to do something i love is like a dream come true 
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So! What will your spawn get for your £65?
All materials are included in Iona’s classes and each participant will have supplies to take away and work with at home, including knitting needles, gorgeous wool, cute embroidery hoops, eco-friendly felt and more. Additionally, a carton of Calypso organic fruit juice and a snack will be provided for the post-school ravenous hordes. The class schedule is as follows:
Week 1 – Hand sewing
1.5 Hours
Felt Xmas decorations
Children will be taught how to sew a basic stitch, how to start & how to finish off & design their own felt Xmas decoration.
Week 2 – Hand sewing
1.5 Hours
Jotter Cozy
Building on the sewing they learnt from the previous class children will develop their skills by making a fabric jotter cozy which will hold a school jotter & have compartments for pens/pencils.
Week 3 – Cross-stitch
1.5 Hours
Cross-stitch Badges
The children will learn a range of different stitches, design & create their own badge & use the badge machine to finish it off.
Week 4 – Knitting
1.5 Hours
Bow Hairbands/Bow Ties
Children will be taught how to cast on, how to knit & purl & how to cast off, which will have them leaving with their own knitted bow hairbands or bow ties.
Week 5 – Knitting
1.5 Hours
Owlets
Recapping on the skills from the previous class, the children will learn some more knitting skills & produce a knitted owlet toy.
Week 6 – Group project
A group project where the children have opportunity to make something together as a group, using all the skills they have learnt over their time in the workshops.
See you there!
Great idea to try an engage the next generation of crafters! Kids are always looking for something to do : )