Mending Basics
with Katy Turbeville
Tiny snags in your favorite sweater? Rips in your jeans? Toes showing up through your socks? Mending to the rescue!
In the past few years, there has been a resurgence of learning repair and mending techniques to slow down your fashion and help clothing last longer. The 2020s in particular have been encouraging of using patches and visible mending to extend the life of clothing you love.
We’ll be learning darning techniques and the basics of sashiko (the Japanese art of tiny stitches) to expand our options for how to repair different fabrics.
Materials fee includes: Sashiko thread, transfer sheets, Sashiko needles, darning tool, tapestry needle, fabric squares, stitch markers, embroidery floss, stabilizer/interfacing
- Skill level All
- Age appropriate 12+ (minors must have a parent on site)
Instructor
Katy TurbevilleKaty was born and raised in Arkansas. She learned to knit 15 years ago, and has since explored and taught a wide variety of fiber arts. Since 2021 she is the creative brain behind Yarn Adventure Truck, and travels the country full-time with her husband Dean, bringing luxury, hand-dyed yarn to fiber enthusiasts across the US. Katy also provides consulting services for fiber arts businesses.
