Mushroom Stitching Workshop

In a change to our previously advertised event, we will be running a workshop about stitching and sewing, using these skills to create your own fungi-themed piece to take home.

This workshop will be run by local artists Madelaine Rose Walker. Madelaine trained at the Royal School of Needlework in London and she runs workshops teaching people to create beautiful things using all kinds of stitching. We will provide all materials and threads and needles – and you don’t have to be good at sewing! There will be simple and fun techniques so everyone can make their own beautiful piece to take home.

This workshop will start with a fungi hunt around the Gardens. We will find all the colours and shapes and textures to inspire us and then head back to the Gardeners’ House for a hot drink. You’ll then have the choice of any fabric or papers we have available to create your own fungi piece. We will also have individual mushrooms printed on cloth you can embellish with your new stitching techniques.

These really will be magic mushrooms!

Understanding our ticket prices

We offer a tiered system of pricing for some of our events, so that there should always be a ticket price to suit all purses. We do not want there to be any barriers to you attending our events if you would like to come along. This is why we offer some free, or lower cost, tickets for each of our events.

• Our Free or lower cost tickets are there for you to book if you don’t have much spare money at the moment. We will never ask questions about this – we just ask for an honesty system, where these tickets are booked if you can’t afford a full price ticket but would love to join us.
• Our Standard tickets are an affordable option, designed to help us cover the cost of putting on these events (opening the building, staffing, speakers, any teas, coffees or food and so forth)
• Our higher-price You Support Us option gives you the price to pay a little more for your ticket, as a way of supporting the work of the Gardeners’ House. It allows us to cover the cost of the event AND to have some left over which we can put towards our work as a charity.

Please think about the level of ticket which applies to you when you’re booking.