Box Cushion - workshop SATURDAY 3rd of May 2025 12:30- 4:30

Name: Box Cushion - workshop SATURDAY 3rd of May 2025 12:30- 4:30
Start: 2025-05-03T12:30:00+1000
End: 2025-05-03T16:30:00+1000
Location: 73/6 Bellambi Ln

Sat, 3 May, 12:30pm - 4:30pm AEST

73/6 Bellambi Ln

bellambi, australia

Britta de Laat

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Event description

This is an introductory sewing course- DIY box cushion. Handy for cushions, seats, benches, or decoration.

Over this 4-hour course, you will learn to make patterns with seam allowance, sewing a zip etc. You will learn about sewing with different fabrics, how to make piping , and more.

Bring suitable fabric 1m fabric. Fabric can also be purchased from our stock prior to the course. (No leather, vinyl, velvet or piled fabrics as these are not suitable for beginners) . If you have absolute no sewing experience, please book the throw cushion first. You can also book both the same day. We encourage people to bring their own sewing machines, but have not.

Course Details:

Duration: 4 hrs
Date: 3.05.2025
Location: At our Bellambi Workshop, NSW 2518
Instructor: Britta de Laat, upholsterer and timber restoration specialist
Skill level: Beginner, No prior experience required, but basic DIY skills are helpful.
Materials: All necessary tools and materials will be provided.
Bring: One 1m of fabric or purchase either from us

Registration Fee: $190.- In tuition fees

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Britta de Laat

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Britta de Laat, founder of dumped & ditched, blissfully sources old, unsought pieces of furniture and turns them into unique, truly beautiful statement objects.

Her romance with rescuing old furniture started when she was a student at renowned Central St Martins College of Art in London. In the days before gentrification hit East London, she roamed the streets of Shoreditch in search of the perfect photoset: Grimy street corners, uncanny viaducts, warehouses filled with weird and wonderful stuff left behind. Traces and memories of the past were quintessential to her artwork. Many items, lost and found, such like a Chesterfield sofa, made it back into her warehouse.

The following years Britta worked in set decoration in film and events in London as well as Berlin. Despite learning many skills during that time and unleashing her creativity on the sets she was never truly full-filled with her work until she decided to retrain as an upholsterer and subsequently launch dumped & ditched.

After having lived in many places she has recently relocated her family and business to beautiful Australia.

Her European roots strongly shine through in her selection of fabrics and her fondness for European postmodern furniture.

In 2021 Britta was casted for the Australian ‘Repair Shop’.

Britta runs the workshop in Bellambi and teaches upholstery workshops there and at Helmesglen Tafe Melbourne.

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Sat, 3 May, 12:30pm - 4:30pm AEST

73/6 Bellambi Ln

bellambi, australia

Hosted by Britta de Laat