Basket Weaving with Eilidh Weir

Join us to craft a sustainable future in our innovative upcycling workshop that explores using scrap textiles to create Fabric Baskets. We’ll use salvaged ropes, scrap fabrics and old clothing, and spend the day meditatively coiling and stitching baskets, perfect for yarn storage! Plus other not as important purposes of course.

We’ll wrap and stitch as we go using strips of salvaged fabric. As our baskets start to take shape we’ll look at how to control the width and angle of the walls to create your choice of bowl or basket. Curate your own colour palette, in subtle matching hues or bright contrast to create a simple and sustainable vessel for your home – perfect for storing your craft materials, or to start a scrap collection to make your next basket with! We’ll work on domestic scale vessels within the workshop, but once you have mastered the technique you can go on to create more ambitious projects at home, such as rugs and wall hangings!

We actively encourage up-cycling and re-use within our workshops, and this class is specifically designed to tackle the increasing global environmental problem of textile waste. Please bring along any old garments so that we can make good use of them, creating beautiful and useful new objects from old, and rescue perfectly useful textiles from landfill. 

No previous sewing or weaving experience is necessary. Up-cycling is for everyone!

Date: 28th February
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: For the Love of Yarn Studio, 26a Rogart Street, Glasgow, G40 2AB

• All tools are provided for use at the upcycled fabric baskets workshop and materials are included in the course cost.
• You are encouraged to bring along your own clothes textiles and threads to incorporate into your project if you would like to.
• Tea and coffee are provided but participants should bring their own lunch, alternatively there is a wonderful restaurant Garlic and Thyme just minutes away.
• All of our classes are suitable for over 16s, younger crafters may be accommodated if accompanied by a participating adult but please contact us before booking.

About Your Tutor

Eilidh Weir is an artist and designer who is best known as the founder of sustainable fashion brand All That Is Braw. Eilidh's holistic approach to sustainable fashion starts with careful sourcing of her matters, which are sewn in house, by hand, right here in central Scotland, and even mended and altered as required by Eilidh's own fair hand. Taking a zero waste approach, she saves all the scraps from her successful garment making cottage industry, and uses them to create beautiful textile artworks that champion sustainability, inclusivity, and understanding across a broad range of issues including mental health awareness and support for LGBTQ+ community. She is passionate about mending and reducing textile waste and is keen to share these skills far and wide.