VISIBLE MENDING
at STISSING HOUSE
Visible Mending Workshop at Stissing House
Saturday, September 28, 10am-4pm
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Mending is such a wonderful way to practice hand-stitching, creativity, and sustainability. With just a few simple stitches, two favorite knots, and a basic understanding of design elements, we can create a bevy of repairs that are beautiful and functional. In this full-day mending workshop, I’ll teach participants my favorite techniques, go-to materials, and tested approaches to mending various textiles.
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This very special workshop will be hosted by chef Clare de Boer, James Beard Award nominee, and her wonderful team at Stissing House in Pine Plains, NY. This class is part of the Folk Craft Series and will include a vegetarian lunch created by Clare—I’m swooning over Clare’s menu as I type. It’s a very rare opportunity to mend in a breath-taking, fully-renovated 1782 ballroom. It promises to delight the senses, conjure up deep reverence for handmade textiles, and offer inspiration for the fall equinox.
Let’s mend things.
A very special, in-person Visible Mending Workshop at Stissing House in Pine Plains, NY including lunch by James Beard Award nominee chef, Clare de Boer.
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This workshop is a hands-on stitching workshop great for beginners, intermediate, or advanced menders. (You do need to know how to thread a needle.) I’ll walk the new mender through the basics, help the intermediate strengthen her techniques, and show the advanced mender exactly why I choose the materials, stitches, and design elements that make my work functional and recognizable. Let’s mend things!
Please bring:
-A textile to mend.
-A fabric you can use as a patch for the textile you're mending (ideally, the same weight and content as the textile you’re mending like denim patches for mending jeans; quilting cottons for mending quilts; or linen remnants for mending linen tablecloths or slips.)
-The class will focus on WOVEN fabrics like denim, linen, cotton, or silk. However, I will briefly cover darning on knits like sweaters, hats, etc. If you’d prefer to focus on darning, bring your knitwear, coordinating yarn, and a tapestry needle.
-If you want to embellish an existing textile instead of mending, that’s fine too. Tablecloths, tea towels, tote bags, jackets and jeans are great for embellishing.
Included in workshop…
This is a very special workshop in a very special place! I cannot wait to gather around the tables in the 1782 ballroom and stitch with you. This is the only in-person mending workshop I am offering this autumn. Join me! It’s going to be amazing. We’ll have six hours of stitching in a gorgeous space with award-winning food to keep us fueled and inspired. Gosh, it can’t come quick enough.
What you’ll get:
-Five hours of textile instruction in a small group setting.
-Six hours to join with like-minded community in a beautiful space and just make things with your hands.
-A full vegetarian lunch, created by chef Clare de Boer.
-A practice cloth for warm-up stitches.
-A skein of Sashiko thread.
-Two metal Sashiko needles.
-A custom wooden ruler.
-A class pamphlet with detailed instructions.
-Access to numerous class tools to use onsite including thimbles, scissors, darning eggs, etc.
“We mend our clothes but we also mend our relationship to our bodies, our planet, and our selves. There are so many metaphors for mending—we tend what’s torn but we also look more closely at our habits, values, desires, and our courage to fix what’s broken.”
— Katrina Rodabaugh