SAVVY SEWING Creative Sleepover

At Three Pools Permaculture Farm.

Savvy Sewing is a weekend to demystify the ancient and super helpful craft of sewing. Develop your confidence and skills to pimp, alter, mend and create from textiles by hand and machine sewing to realise your own stylish aspirations and costume dreams.

Creative Sleepovers take place in the nourishing landscape of Three Pools Permaculture Farm. Hosted by resident artist, cook and farmer duo, Amy Cooper and Hannah Kempe. These gatherings offer time and space to to be crafty and with the support of experienced artists and makers. Every day there's delicious meals and time to rest, wild swim, sauna or wander the farm. 

Is it for me?

Whether you are an experienced sewer looking to share hot tips or a complete newbie seeking support to begin, this will be a time and space to enjoy a shared passion. Bring your desire to be a savvier sewer and enjoy the company and progress of others at the various stages of their own journey with sewing.

How will I learn? 

We will be learning sewing machine and hand sewing techniques by getting hands-on with supported open space and some simple guided activities. Whether you want to  alter and improve the fit of clothes, repairing and maintaining clothes you love so they last longer, making things more you and unique or creating gifts for other people this weekend will help you.

Kate Griffiths, a prolific, playful maker and user of needle and sewing machine along with many other crafts will be collaborating with Creative Sleepover Hosts Amy Cooper and Hannah Kempe to make this weekend hands-on, brave, full of  lightbulb learning moments and things to take home.

On offer to learn:

• Fixing and reinforcing your favourite items
• Techniques for altering clothes for a better fit
• Patching & darning
• Simple quilting techniques
• Aplique to pimp and add pattern to existing textiles.
• Simple patterns to follow to make bags and jackets
• Look at how 2D patterns work to create 3D forms
• Support to explore making your own pattern
• Encouragement to have a go!

We hope these skills will help you feel empowered to make and wear things with freedom. 

CREATIVE SLEEPOVER HOSTS

This series of cosy gatherings are hosted by us, Amy Cooper and Hannah Kempe, resident artists, crafters, cooks and farmers of Three Pools Farm. We bonded over our lively creative practices and our love of hosting people to share inspiration and learn together.

We invite you to join and…

• Have your creativity nurtured
• Be part of a caring weekend community
• Share materials, tools, skills and inspiration.
• Relax into the present
• Celebrate the creations of yourself and the group
   

A sleepover?

Bring your pyjamas, eye mask, earplugs, whatever you need, you are invited to a sleepover! We think there is something special about sleeping in a room with other people, each of us cosy in our own beds, sleeping as a pack, a collective. The farm has two purpose built sleepover spaces, a Giant Bunk House, with triple high adult sized bunk beds and a beautiful calm attic room.

If everything about this weekend appeals except the sleepover, please get in touch, we can send you some other accommodation options and you can buy a Day Ticket.

Day tickets

If you are local and would like to stay in your own bed, or if you are planning an airbnb offsite, you are welcome on our day ticket, which includes all meals and the activities from 8am - 10pm.

Quilted Aplique jacket

Sewing Machine

• Please bring a sewing machine if you can, Electrical or hand / foot powered. There are many sitting getting dusty in people's houses, to rent from Library of Things, pick up for free or low cost of Facebook Marketplace or Gumtree. Please let us know if you will need to share a sewing machine.

What is provided?

• A daily rhythm of activities to participate in and contribute to
• Studio, barn and outdoor space to get creative in
• Shared sewing machine, tools and materials for the activities 
• Delicious, nourishing meals
• Warm spaces to sleep and rest
• Beautiful regenerative farmland to roam & explore
• Wild swimming pond & sauna sessions
• Night time fires in the open barn - instruments and voices welcome
• A tour of the farm

Useful things to bring

If you have your own Savvy Sewing materials and tools you would like to bring, you are welcome. 

• Sewing Machine (electric/ manual) 
• Clothes & textiles you are happy to practise with.
• Clothes and textiles you want to give away.
• Warm clothes, blanket, hot water bottle.
• Water bottle / thermos / keep cup
• Weatherproof or a change of clothes for wandering the farm without worrying about weather
• Footwear to wander the farm and get wet
• Footwear for crafting indoors
• Towel for shower and sauna
• Swimwear for pond swimming and sauna.

Arrivals & Departures

• Arrivals from 5.30pm on Friday 
• Dinner  6.30-7.30. If you must arrive late please let us know if you want us to plate food for you.
• Welcome circle 8pm
• Departures between 4-6pm on Sunday, if you must leave before 4pm on Sunday please let us know.

Location & getting here

• Three Pools Farm is well connected by train or car near the bustling market town of Abergavenny,.
• Lift sharing: Youl will receive an email with a whatsapp channel for offering and requesting lifts.
• You can read more about life at Three Pools Permaculture Farm.

Any questions? Email amy@threepools.co.uk