Unwind and stitch slowly with Phong Chi Lai (Studio PCL) in this relaxed, hands-on embroidery workshop.

Using a curated selection of ATW’s botanically dyed yarns, you’ll learn a variety of decorative embroidery stitches and create your own sampler on hand-loomed linen. Play with colour, texture and pattern as you experiment, design, and build a unique embroidered textile swatch.

Perfect for beginners and seasoned craft lovers alike, this workshop is a celebration of mindful making, creativity, and the simple pleasure of working with your hands.

Workshop Date:

Saturday 18 April 2026

Time:

1pm – 4pm

Cost:

Adult: $125
ATW Friends: $115
Student: $105

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Materials:

All materials are included and yours to keep. You’ll receive linen, an ATW botanical thread pack, and an embroidery needle, beautifully packed in a calico drawstring bag so you can continue stitching at home long after the workshop ends.

Skill Level:

No experience necessary. Ages 15+

About the Artist

Phong Chi Lai (Studio PCL) is a Naarm/Melbourne-based designer/maker specialising in quilts and soft sculptures through improv patchwork.

Phong’s work expresses something of the old world reflected through the eyes and hands of a creative concerned with social and ethical realities of the Twenty-first Century. While he looks back to tradition, with special reverence for the textile arts and techniques of tribal, folk and ethnic cultures, his aesthetic is also informed by contemporary art and fashion.

Using natural dyes and reclaimed fibres foraged from his immediate environment, Phong prioritises social and environmental care in his practice. Taking a considered and intuitive approach, he applies traditional techniques such as hand-quilting, assemblage, bricolage and stitched patchwork to build compositional complexity based on strong organic forms, colour and tonality, and detailed expression in the hand-made lines.