Custom Sidebag // Half Day Workshop
♻️ Learn to sew & repair textiles. Then use your new skills to curate your own Sidebag design. #creativity
👜 No prior sewing skills required! We tailor this four hour upcycling workshop to suit your skill level :)
🌎 After the workshop, Into Carry will turn your handmade design into your fresh new sidebag!
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♻️ Learn to sew & repair textiles. Then use your new skills to curate your own Sidebag design. #creativity
👜 No prior sewing skills required! We tailor this four hour upcycling workshop to suit your skill level :)
🌎 After the workshop, Into Carry will turn your handmade design into your fresh new sidebag!
Date
♻️ Learn to sew & repair textiles. Then use your new skills to curate your own Sidebag design. #creativity
👜 No prior sewing skills required! We tailor this four hour upcycling workshop to suit your skill level :)
🌎 After the workshop, Into Carry will turn your handmade design into your fresh new sidebag!
Date
Custom Sidebag // Half Day Workshop
Learn to design & create with waste, without the four year fashion degree, even if you think you’re not creative.
This four hour upcycling buffet is the perfect workshop to develop creative methods to repurpose everyday materials. Into Carry's collaborative learning style puts you in the drivers seat to design your own Sidebag from everyday materials.
If operating a sewing machine terrifies you, that's ok! Erica & Luke will be there as your personal sewing & bag design guides.
After a decade of bag upcycling, we've collected a suite of core sewing techniques to bring even the trashiest of trash back to life. Learn each technique (see below) before unleashing your favourites to create your own Sidebag design.
Choose from the Min Sidebag (small) or Sidebag (medium) design.
Join us for this beginner-friendly creative upcycling workshop, then walk the streets with your own custom designed Sidebag.
Limited spots, sign up today.
♻️ Workshop Includes
- Four hours of expert guided sewing and upcycling facilitation
- Activities to develop and refine sewing skills
- Learn Into Carry's favourite techniques to upcycle materials (see below)
- Your own Min Sidebag or Sidebag. Designed by you, made by Into Carry
- Plus FREE coffee from Into Coffee!
♻️ 6 Reasons to Join
Whether you're curious about sewing, wanting to repair your own clothes or just want to own a sick as bag you designed yourself, this jam-packed 4 hour session is tailored to your upcycling desires so you can learn practical new skills without marathon YouTube sessions...
- Learn to sew
- Learn to work with weird waste materials
- Learn creative textile repair techniques (Reverse appliqué, DIY patch creation, Machine repair/embroidery, How to upcycle scraps)
- Design your own Sidebag (without the stress of sewing it together)
- Meet like-minded upcyclers
- Spend ya Saturday sippin' latte's with your best bud (BESTBUDS for $60 off)
♻️ Costings
This $220 workshop includes four hours of expert guided upcycling facilitation valued at $129. Plus your choice of Min Sidebag ($140) or Sidebag ($180).
Total workshop value of $269-$309 for $220 :)
♻️ Workshop Breakdown
10.30am-11.30am: Learning Time
Let the sewing & repair learnings begin! We spend a full hour learning and understanding material repair techniques (Reverse appliqué, DIY patch creation, Machine repair/embroidery, How to upcycle scraps).
11.30am-12.30pm: Designing Time
After you've mastered your sewing skills and repair techniques, we bring out a smorgasbord of trash for you to curate your new Sidebag from.
12.30pm-3.00pm: Making Time
Using your new skills, we bring your design to life. 2.5 hours may seem like a lot but this will fly by! How exciting!
Got more questions? Check out the FAQ's below...
PS. You don't need any prior skills to join! We tailor this workshop to suit all skill levels. From zero skills to veteran seamstress, you've got the world at your oyster tips.
Design and build a canvas of curated waste materials to create the aesthetic and style of your own Sidebag. This jam-packed workshop teaches your a handfull a practical skills through creative reuse of busted materials.
- Class runs 10.30am-3.00pm Saturday
- One 4 hours class
- No prior sewing skills required
- We have an abundance of waste here but BYO waste material is welcomed
- Each student will have their own sewing machine to practice on (you're welcome to BYO machine)
♻️ Waste Materials
We have a LOT of overlooked materials here at the studio. If you have a particular material you would like to upcycle, please bring it in! We love exploring new materials. Otherwise, we have an abundance of banners, denim, sleeping bags, upholstery fabric, tarps, workwear and other random goodies here. Note: if you would like to use soft plastic in your design, you can create your own at home with our online tutorial and bring it into class (you won't need this material until week 2).
Included in the $220 ticket is four hours of in-person workshop hours, valued at $180, plus the production of your epic new bag, valued at $140-$220.
A total value of $400 for $220.
Bonus point if you've read this far, use code 'HEARTUPCYCLING' for 10% off
We offer a refund policy up until 7 days prior to the semester starting. If the cancellation is within this 7 day window, we will release the ticket and refund your amount pending it's resale. No refunds will be processed once the semester has started. To see if the classes are right for you, try our one-off 3 hour Pants Into Carry Class! :)
Sidebag Workshop FAQ
Nope! We kick class off with some fun and practical textile skills and repair techniques before diving into the waste curating process!
On the day you can choose from Into Carry’s shoulder bags:
- ‘Min Sidebag’ (small shoulder bag)
- ‘Sidebag’ (medium shoulder bag)
Working with wasted materials is creative in itself. We don't need elaborate ideas to make high quality bags. We just need a sewing machine and a few hours of time :)
Bonus sewing tip: You can cut two pieces of material with one pair of scissors.
Adaption to context: Sign up to the course with your friend you can't see and save $60 when you book together using the code "BESTBUDS" at checkout.
First, congratulations on starting all those projects. Second, the best part of this workshop is you don't even need to finish! We make the bag for you. You just get to do all the fun designing and curating, then we do the hard yakka and send you the bag the following week. So you can say FO to UFO's.
I recently learnt what a UFO is so it's only fair to share... it stands for UnFinished Object and is a 100% normal symptom of getting really excited about the potential of overlooked materials. But fear not, you will finish 100% guarantee :)
Great question. The answer is: Only if you want it to.
Through this workshop, you can intentionally make trashy-looking bags, but you can just as easily make crisp, sharp, super sexy-looking masterpieces. Without any prior skills of fancy knick nacks.
It can be nice to upcycle something with sentimental value, so if you have an old garment that you want to rebirth into carry then absolutely, bring it along!
Alternatively, we have soooo much material here for you to get creative with. There is a whole range of weird, wacky, wonderful waste, ready for you to start exploring and upcycling.
Each course is run from our space in Collingwood, Melbourne/Naarm. There is free parking after 6.30pm on most surrounding streets, otherwise the Tram along Smith St stops at Peel St is a couple hundred meters away.
Address is: 2A Robert St, Collingwood, VIC 3066
Time: 10.30am-3.00pm
Too easy, shoot Luke an email at luke@intocarry.co and we will get back to you asap.
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