Author: Ian Mack

Rowallane Community Hub was open today from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm for a marathon hexagon sewing session for the NI Big Sock world record attempt.  Twenty people called in during the day and completed a grand total of 550 hexagons! Have a look at some photographs taken at the event, including one of Trevor and Ian who each completed two hexagons! Sewing sessions will take pla...

Join in a World Record attempt!   You could help to include Saintfield in a record breaking attempt to create the world's largest patchwork Christmas stocking. If you can sew at all then you can take part!  Come along to Rowallane Community Hub this Saturday, 14th May. Drop in any time between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm for as long or short a time as you can spare.

Rowallane Community Hub was the venue for a Powertex craft session today.  Powertex is a fabric and textile hardener and is environmentally friendly being a water-based liquid sculpting medium.  Powertex hardens absorbent materials such as textiles, paper, cardboard, fabrics, leather and fibreglass, and is used for making sculptures, paintings, decorative objects and jewellery....

Currently the largest Christmas stocking recorded by Guinness World Records measures 51 m 35 cm long by 21 m 63 cm wide (from heel to toe) which was set in 2011 in Italy. As a way of reclaiming a creative sewing reputation for Northern Ireland we need to surpass this by creating a huge stocking using 3” hexagons. Achieving this record by December 2016 will mean that NI has ...