Visible Mending: Creative Workshop

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Mend, upgrade & enhance your clothes in this 6-week course! Add style and personal touches to your clothes by learning techniques to mend, renew and prolong the life of your favourite clothes.

Learn a wealth of fun and practical mending techniques to take home and put into action straight away. Extend the life of your favourite items and significantly reduce their environmental impact. Over the course of six weeks the course will cover three techniques each for knitted and woven fabrics. Mending is the gift that keeps on giving!

Materials provided include: a swatch of knitted fabric, a selection of threads, a swatch of denim, a swatch of cotton, snips and threads, pins, darning profiles, embroidery hoops, felting needles, roving, felting mats.

Starts Thursday 8 January 7-9pm each week.

To bring with you: latch hook (for fixing runs in knitwear), bent needle (for mending), sashiko needle, chenille needle, ball-tipped needle. OR buy a Kit add-on for £12.50 – see ticket details below (Kit will contain: latch hook, bent tapestry needle, 2 darners, 1 chenille needle and a half decent threader!).


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