Saturday 8th February 2025 / 10:30 - 13:30 / £38pp plus booking fee

Spend the morning getting inky! and learn how to design, carve and print your own designs using the lino cut technique.

In this 3 hour workshop, you will learn:

How to create a design perfect for lino print
How to transfer your drawing onto lino
How to carve a lino block, and use different techniques to create interesting patterns
How to mix inks to create your own colours
How to print your designs
How to sign and edition your prints

Suitable for beginners

Price £38 (plus booking fee) - includes tea and biscuits!

Saturday 22nd February 2025 / 12pm - 13.30pm / £50pp

Join Sap Plants and learn how to make your own closed terrarium in this 90-minute Terrarium workshop at Handmade Nottingham. You are booking to attend on Saturday 22nd February 2025 1pm - 2:30pm.

Handmade Notts is also full of amazing products from UK based small businesses, so you can enjoy some shopping before or after the workshop.

In this workshop you will be provided with everything you need to make your own bottled garden:

- Glass bottle & Cork.

- A selection of terrarium friendly plants.

- An illustrated care card.

The workshop will begin with a step by step demonstration from Chan, who will explain each step thoroughly.

After the demonstration you will then build your own terrarium at your own pace, Chan will be available for assistance and advice throughout.

Saturday 8th March / 10am-12.30 / £65pp

This leather making workshop will teach you how to make your own leather bucket bag with award winning textile artist and leather bag designer Lee Mattocks.

Sunday 9th March 2025 / 1pm - 3pm / £30pp

Create 2 pairs of polymer clay earrings using the slab building technique.

After the workshop your pieces will be taken away to be baked & assembled. They will then post them to you!

Contact Kay Jay Clay via instagram to book

Saturday 5th April / 10.30pm - 12.30pm / £70pp

Sculpt Ornamental Brass Flower Stems
Learn the art of cold carving and sculpting in wax to create your own beautifully detailed flower blooms, which will be cast into brass to become elegant ornamental flower stems.

Knead, sculpt, and carve soft wax sheets to form delicate petals, leaves, and natural floral details. Use small files, carving tools, and your fingers to craft your own unique blooms, which will be professionally cast into brass.

Create Your Own Unique Flower Designs
This workshop encourages creativity and personal expression. You’ll have the freedom to sculpt any type of flower you like — from classic roses and daisies to exotic blooms of your own invention. Visual inspiration, reference materials, and live demonstrations will be provided to spark your imagination and guide you through the process.

What's Included:
Expert tuition from Amber Cooper-Green
All necessary materials and tools to create at least two flower blooms
Visual inspiration and live demos to support your creativity
Hot drinks and cake
Casting of your wax creations into brass (two blooms included)
Sanding ,soldering the brass stems and polishing of your finished brass flowers
Postage of your finished pieces to your chosen address

Cost:
£70 for two brass flower stems (includes two bloom castings)
Additional bloom castings available for £20 each

Sunday 27th July / 1pm- 3pm / £12pp

This month Get Lit will be discussing Adam S Leslie's Lost in the Garden.

About the book:

'Like an old wives' tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed. Don't go to Almanby.'

Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back. Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it. And Antonia - poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather.

So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever. And as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave…