Craft Punk: Warm-up!

Craft Punk: Warm-up!
Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June


Craft Punk is suggesting some crafty ways you can warm-up this winter.  Book a workshop lead by an industry expert and learn how to create a quirky tea-cosy, coffee plunger cosy or hat from industrially knitted off-cuts.  Kill the chill as you learn some very useful carpentry skills and create a funky coat rack.  Join our free drop-in session and make a knitted scarf to beat the winter blues.  Craft Punk is all about giving you the tools to take making into your own hands!

Booked workshops

Hang-up: wooden coat-rack DIY
22 and 23 June, 10.30am – 12.30, 1.30 – 3.30pm
Beginners welcome (age 16 years and over)
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
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Ian Monty has oodles of expertise when it comes to wood.  Learn how to make a nifty coat-rack, using pre-cut high quality Finnish plywood (from sustainably managed plantations).  This workshop is a great introduction to carpentry for the novice.  You will be supplied with the raw machined elements of the coat rack and will learn how to saw, drill, prepare edges, sand and assemble with screws.  Learn how raw pieces of timber are finished, machined and assembled, producing a contemporary domestic item.  Various finishing techniques personalising design and possibilities of mounting on the wall will be discussed.  Tools and materials supplied. more..

Ian Monty is a furniture designer and maker, producing commissioned furniture pieces through his business Ian Monty Wood Design.  Ian completed a Certificate IV in Fine Furniture-making at the Sturt School for Wood in Mittagong.  His work is featured in numerous design magazines.

Kooky cosies and caps
22 and 23 June, 10.30am – 12.30, 1.30 – 3.30pm
Beginners welcome (age 14 years and over)
$45 adult, $40 Powerhouse member (includes Museum admission)
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Liz Gemmell will show you how to create a kooky tea cosy, coffee cosy or cap from quality industry knitted wool fabric off-cuts.  The woollen textile is a great insulator and comes in a variety of colours.  The challenge is to come up with your own unique cosy and Liz will help you with basic cosy patterns you can individualise.  Cut out, construct and decorate your cosy or cap with simple hand sewing, simple smocking and even simpler embroidery.  Liz has also devised instructions on how to convert a rectangle into a cheeky smocked lattice cap.  Bring your own tea or coffee pot to model your cosy on.  Tools and materials supplied. more..

Liz Gemmell teaches Textiles in the Fashion department at UTS.  She is a practising craft person and member of the Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW.  Her work has been exhibited in regional and state galleries.  Liz started her career as the author of five seminal knitting books.

Drop-in workshops

Snuggle up!
22 and 23 June, 10.00am – 4.00pm
Free with Museum admission
No bookings required

Are you an unconfident knitter or a knitting novice – then let our fabulous experts show you how to knit a scarf in rapid time with some intriguing mixed threads and jumbo sized needles.  Ages 12 years and over (children must be accompanied by an adult).  All materials supplied.

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Ian Monty
Ian Monty

Liz Gemmell
Liz Gemmell

Snuggle up!
Snuggle up!