Frillybylily www.frillybylily.co.uk is a fun high fashion jewellery brand with a focus on recycled materials. Lily will help you freshen up your jewellery box, by reinventing your old or broken jewellery into a new contemporary piece! Don’t worry if you don’t have anything, there’ll be extra materials provided (including vintage bits and lots of new elements).

Cost £19.99 (Including materials and complimentary wine)

Our enjoyable programme of Craft It Yourself workshops offers the chance for anyone to take part in craft - discover the relevance (and fun) of craft and design!

Whether you’re already an expert, or fancy trying something new, come and satisfy your crafty urges at the CIY workshops led by designers. From sharpening up your sewing skills with creating gorgeous handbags from vintage fabrics, to millinery and crafty tips to decorate your home for the festive season, this is an informal opportunity to learn from the experts and have a bit of ‘making’ fun! No experience required!

Each quarter designers from the Network or industry experts are invited to share their experiences. Come along and ask questions in a relaxed atmosphere. A fantastic networking opportunity to mingle with fellow designer makers and knowledgeable sector professionals.

If we're fully booked, go to http://craftcentralbookings.org.uk/content/meet-maker-artist-talk-0 to check further availability.

About Emily...
Over the last 18 years Emily Jo Gibbs has established an international reputation for her exquisite work. Between 1993 and 2005 Emily Jo Gibbs built her luxury handbags business, based in the UK but with an international market including the USA and Japan. The majority of sales were couture handbags to a wholesale international fashion market, a proportion to galleries and museums including the Crafts Council and the V&A and also to private collectors. In 2005 Emily Jo Gibbs changed direction from serving predominantly a fashion market to serve a contemporary craft market. The aim was to grow and nurture the part of the business selling direct to collectors, to make bodies of work that had greater longevity and meaning.

Check out Emily’s work here http://craftcentral.org.uk/emily-jo-gibbs

• Are you over stretched?
• Constantly juggling different roles?
• Struggling under the pressures of life and work?

90%+ of designers accessing Craft Central’s support are women… expressing concerns about work-life balance (especially during motherhood), financial worries and stresses of part-time work.

Get together with like-minded designer makers in the same boat and share your troubles over a cup of tea!

Cost FREE