Following on from the success of a 6-week flower growing group at Meanwood Community Centre with the support of Stitch-Up CIC & Incredible Edible Meanwood  Stitch-Up are now launching a friendly 4-week summer course exploring flower growing and hand embroidery with Elnaz Yazdani.

Throughout the 4 weeks you will learn beginners gardening skills, flower cutting & simple hand embroidery stitches to combine cut flowers and embroidery. 

Take part in a new embroidery project with artist Elnaz Yazdani.  Are you encountering fertility issues and in the process of trying to conceive via assisted conception? Join us for a series of embroidery workshops ran by Elnaz Yazdani as part of a PHD project in Social Anthropology where we will explore and represent your experience.

Workshops held at: The Arc Centre, Stockport. SK30EU  

Contact: Rebecca.higginbottom@manchester.ac.uk

Embroider With Nature

Date: Wednesday 5th August  • 

Time: 6.30-8.30

Location: Left bank

Experiment with dried flowers and natural colours to create your own unique piece of embroidery art, Elnaz Yazdani dries and collects flowers from her allotment, garden, and walks. You will learn a range of exciting hand embroidery stitches to apply these elements of nature onto natural fabric using beadwork and hand embroidery.