Sewing & crafts classes & parties in East London
So I’m in my new studio, I taught my first class in there and it’s absolutely perfect. It will no doubt take a while yet before I’m completely done and before my living room looks normal again but I’m on my way. Nice as the studio looks now, the living room (where I taught […]
Seb and Joe finished up here on Wednesday. It was sad to see them go on one level as they’ve been amazing to have around and I sincerely hope we keep in touch. But obviously it was exciting to see the studio ready for me filling it full of paint and fabric and furniture and […]
Today a whole bunch of amazing women joined me and helped me paint the inside of the studio white. My fearless friend Milla went up the ladder to finish the outside of the studio, the bits I had found too scary and high, and Kate, Donne, Vicky, Nicola and myself tackled the inside, Milla joining […]
Yesterday all the gaps between the joists were filled with rockwool and the whole lot was wrapped in a breathable membrane. It wasn’t looking too good at this stage with all the nasty logos all over it but it was water tight which was amazing. Then the boys busied themselves laying felt on the roof […]
Seb was in his own on Saturday but still managed to put a whole load of the cross beams in. This process was finished by Joe and Seb yesterday by which time the whole box was cross crossed with sturdy beams. This morning the lads starting encasing the whole thing in a moisture proof wrap […]
Having woken up in the night to the loudest thunder ever, and some of the wildest rain ever, the budding studio held out well. Luckily the lads had covered everything up and apart from me sweeping a tiny bit of standing water off the surface all was well. In fact within half an hour it […]
Tuesday night the lads didn’t finish pouring concrete for the posts (for the whole studio to sit on) until almost midnight. Thanks HSS for turning up with the mixer at 7.30pm! Grrr. Sean and I went to Bethnal Green to collect a HUGE sash window which had been donated to the studio by the lovely […]
Today was a frustrating one for the lads. The hired concrete mixer is STILL “on it’s way”, it’s now 6.30pm, and they had to drink tea and eat biccies for a bit as they had run out of things to do. Strangely they didn’t like that as they like being busy! They are going make […]
Day one was actually just half a day as Seb and Joe, my amazing builders, arrived at 1 ish. However they achieved millions in the four hours or so they were at work. First they set about demolishing a whole shed, scaring away many spiders in the process (including some fearsome and large False Widow […]
Ok ok I’m a month late but all the same, let’s celebrate. Cheekyhandmades has been around for 4 years. In these four years it’s gone from a tiny spark of a dream to a grown up company. From trailing my makes around local craft fairs in the beginning to where I am now has been […]