Dates: Oct 12 Instructor: Martina Cox In this workshop students will learn to mend, patch, and adorn worn cloth with hand-stitching. Students will be introduced to a variety of visible mending techniques, including traditional embroidery stitching, darning, basic patchworking techniques, and the rich history behind different canonized mending styles. We will combine these different techniques to create a unique mending composition on your garment or textile, both personalizing it and repairing it, all at once! Students are encouraged to bring multiple options of garments or samples in need of mending, this can include (but is not limited to): - Worn tshirts or tshirts with holes - Denim with rips in easy to access places (please consider crotch rips as intermediate level to approach this class) - Hole-y socks - Hole-y sweaters - Rips, tears, and stains - as well as beloved scraps and adornments to include in the mending process. Please be mindful that we will be handsewing, and to not bring materials that will be very thick, sturdy and/or difficult to handsew. -- Our classes are designed to focus on a learned skill rather than a final product. At TAC, our mission is to provide skills and knowledge for a lifetime!