Visible mending for woven fabrics - stitching and patching

Do you have holes in your clothes and don't know how to fix them? Learn the art of visible mending – a fun, colourful alternative to traditional mending – and make your clothes better than new with professional mender Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald from Melbourne.

Learn essential hand-stitching techniques, including embroidery and quilting stitches that are useful for mending, too. You’ll also learn a few different ways to create patches that are nicer than any you can buy.

Please BYO lunch and any tea towels, jeans, shirts and other clothing in need of repair, as well as any fabric scraps and threads you might like to use.

Mending tools and supplies will be provided; no prior mending experience is required.