A monthly space to stitch, explore, and return to, with new themes and techniques each session.
This ongoing monthly workshop invites you to explore textile collage and embroidery through guided prompts, intuitive making, and simple techniques. Each session offers a slightly different theme, so whether you’re joining for the first time or returning, there’s always something new to explore.
You might work with text, symbols, colour, or abstract forms, using scrap and reclaimed materials to create a piece that feels personal to you. The focus is on process over perfection, with plenty of room to experiment and follow your own ideas.
No experience is needed. Beginners and returning participants are equally welcome.
Returning to the workshop?
Each session introduces new prompts, materials, and techniques, so you can continue building your skills and developing your style over time.
Themes & Prompts
Each session includes optional creative prompts to guide your process. These may explore:
- Seasonal shifts and transitions
- Personal reflection and intention
- Working with text, symbols, or imagery
- Responding to colour, texture, and materials
You’re free to follow the prompts or work more intuitively.
Techniques Covered
Techniques will vary each month, but may include:
Food & Drink
You’re welcome to have a drink or a bite to eat while you stitch.
Bring Your Own Craft (no instruction)
This option is for those who would like to join the space and work on their own creative project.
You’re welcome to bring any portable craft, such as knitting, crochet, sewing, or other work-in-progress pieces.
Please note this is a self-led option. Guidance and materials will be focused on the textile workshop, and I may not be able to provide support for all craft types.
Facilitated by Cristina Rago
Date: Sunday 26 April 2026
Time: 2:30-4pm
Location: Aya and Suki, 62 BROADWAY MARKET, E8 4QJ
Accessibility: The venue and bathrooms have a small number of stairs
Cost: £10-20. Booking in advance is essential as we have venue caps.
Sappho Events welcomes LGBTQ+ women, trans and non-binary people to our events.
Your Facilitator
Cristina Rago (they/them) is a non-binary Filipino American multidisciplinary artist. Their artistic practice spans painting, textiles, and film to explore identity integration, healing, and reparation from a queer perspective. Their textile pieces often utilise domestic materials including discarded clothes, cheesecloth, and doilies that are reworked through processes such as dyeing, destruction and mending. This cyclical process becomes a holistic act of self-reckoning, and an integration of past selves and thought patterns with the present. Cristina works out of their studio in Wandsworth, London.
https://www.cristinarago.com
https://www.instagram.com/cristinaragoart