Come and learn how to mend your clothes in this hands on session upstairs at Frome Library
Holes in your clothes? Button fallen off? Tear in a favourite shirt? Things lying about waiting for that mend? Here's your opportunity to fix them in this hands on session.
Volunteer stitchers and menders from the Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network can help work out what needs doing and how to fix it, supporting you to mend your own clothes.
What we can help with:
Buttons and fasteners
Taking up hems and some fitting adjustments
Mending and darning holes
Advice on how you might repair a piece of clothing, including zips.
Come and enjoy a relaxed social atmosphere of mending your clothes.
These sessions are designed for all abilities and many different kind of repairs.
This session takes place upstairs at Frome Library and is fully accessible(via lift).
Your hosts:
Everyone Needs Pockets is a mycelium of people and projects reimagining a responsible, inclusive and sustainable clothing and textile industry. We are weaving together a new neighbourhood-scale clothing and textile culture to nurture and restore the health of our community and the planet. Everyone Needs Pockets is a growing network of 200+ makers, designers, stitchers, knitters, sustainable fashion fans and researchers based in Frome.
There are 2 of these sessions in 2026, everyone welcome to 1 or both of these sessions. Keep a look out for more sessions again in 2027.
There's a warm and friendly welcome!
Everyone Needs Pockets is currently supported by Frome Town Council, Sustainable Frome and the National Lottery's Community Fund for our two year project Get Frome Mending.
