Ms Angelo started the four day beginner workshops on Tuesday at Apollo House where participants were making pillowcases.

"I believe Apollo could set this up as a business. The sewing group could make the pillows and it could be an ongoing profitable business," Ms Angelo said.

Sewing teacher Margaret Roberts, who came up with the idea of the workshop, agreed.

"The youth, they're so good at graffiti. We believe they could do that and we could make it into board shorts or singlets or whatever's cool," she said.

Ms Angelo said the benefit of screen printing was that anyone could do it.

"This is a skill where it doesn't matter how old you are, if you're male or female, it's cool for whoever," she said.

"I've worked with tens of thousands of people over the years and it's never not worked."

She said like anything, it was all about taking it one step at a time.

"We've only started a couple of hours ago and then we'll add to it to make tablecloths or clothes. This is just the beginning, it's just the first test of how you can make something different," she said. Ms Angelo said it was an activity that tapped into the creative side of the brain.

"While you're creating you're in your right side of the brain so you're not thinking about what you've been through or what's happening at home," she said.

Initially, the workshops had been designed for 10 people but Ms Angelo said there were 17 on Wednesday and by the end of the week she expected it would increase to 20.