Event: Digital Print Design with Casette Playa

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This weekend the British Museum are hosting a great free event 'Digital Print Design with Cassette Playa'. The event is taking place twice this Saturday 7th January at 11 and 2.30, it's completely free you just need to book online beforehand. Cassette Playa is a contemporary fashion designer whose worked with people like Dizzie Rascal and MIA and regularly shows her work at London Fashion Week. 

Event: Free Fashion Fusion Workshops

The Fashion and Textile Museum are now taking applications for their free Fashion Fusion courses. The courses are available for students aged 16-18 (if you have become 19 since 1st September you will still be eligible for a free course) and you must have lived in the UK or EU for at least three years. The first course you take is FREE and any after that are £100. 

There are four courses to choose from: Fashion Collection, Fashion Career, Fashion Photoshop and Fashion Sketchbook. For full details about what the courses involve and the dates they are taking place visit the Fashion and Textile Museum website. To apply for a course download and complete the Fashion Fusion Application Form and email it info@ftmlondon.org

These courses are great and students that have been to them in the past have produced a fantastic body of work and really enjoyed themselves! The places book up quickly so make sure you apply asap! 

Exhibition/Workshops: Stitched Science at The Science Museum

This Saturday and Sunday Stitch London are hosting 'Stitched Science' at The Science Museum in London. There are going to knitted and stitched science specimens on display created by artists/designers from across the globe, you can see some examples of these here. There are also free knitting workshops throughout the weekend - like knit a neuron and pom pom planet rings so if you want to learn to knit this weekend will be a great chance to do that! 

If you do pop by have a look out for a knitted aeroplane amongst the stitched science specimens as that's one of mine! - Claire