Button Brooches - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Do you have a button tin? Has it been passed from family member to family member? This is a fun and creative way to use those unused buttons and give them a new life! It is a great way to use buttons to create something new and keep memories of items alive. Within the session, you will make a brooch or a pendant using old buttons and look at how this craft can be extended for other uses.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Demonstrate Practical Assembly Skills: learners will successfully create and complete at least one button brooch using appropriate stitching or adhesive techniques, ensuring structural integrity and durability.

• Achieve Consistent Finishing: learners will produce a brooch with uniform stitching, clean edges, and secure fastenings, following quality standards suitable for retail or gifting.

• Share stories: learners will share stories and memories of buttons.

• Evaluate Environmental Impact: learners will assess the environmental benefits of using recycled materials versus new materials in handmade crafts.

Please bring with you to the course:-

• Plastic canvas (available in several shapes)

• Buttons

• Needle

• Tutor will bring some wool scraps to be used in the class

• Small kits (online - Kit - Button Heart Brooch Kit , Each Kit Has a Different Mix of Buttons - Etsy UK

• A drink, notepad and pen

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.