Workshop Description:

Mending techniques are used to repair and strengthen garments and other textile items. But, when left visible the repairs are also decorative and add texture, line, color, and can be quite charming! The techniques can also be used in paper and textile art pieces. In this workshop students will create a sampler of mending techniques seen in Japanese and French textiles. After learning the techniques we will move on to repairing, or embellishing a garment or other textile item of your choice. Each student will bring an item that needs repair, or embellishing, and will apply one or more of the mending
techniques learned in the class.

The instructor will bring items from her collection of mended textiles for inspiration. Students should bring a textile item that has a worn area that needs re-enforcing, a hole or tear that requires repair, a stain that needs covering, or an item that simply could use some stitcherly embellishment. This can be a pair of pants, a dress, a shirt or skirt, a table cloth, curtain, or other textile item.

Students should bring the following materials:
- Threads you may want to work with: embroidery, machine thread, sashiko, pearl cotton, etc. (instructor will also have some on hand)
- Scraps of fabric to use as patches
- An item to repair or embellish

Students should bring the following tools:
- Needles to fit your threads
- Pins

Instructor will provide:
- Fabric for sampler
- Fabric scraps for patching
- Threads