Visible Mending Workshop with Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou by Arounna Khounnoraj of bookhou

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CBTV | 2 hours 51 min

Visible Mending Workshop with Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou
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Arounna Khounnoraj of bookhou

This class will be available to view on March 26, 2025.

Explore Visible Mending with Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou in this three hour workshop. We all have that favourite pair of jeans or a well-loved sweater that we keep putting on no matter how baggy or worn they might become. In the movement against throw-away culture and fast fashion, learn how to pick up a needle and rediscover the forgotten techniques and the joy of mending. Arounna covers the techniques of weave mending, seed stitch and scotch darning, and different methods of patching woven fabrics from both the front and back.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Tools

Thread snips
Scissors
A variety pack od needles including sashiko and sharps for wovens and darning needles for weaving and working with knits. A variety of lengths and widths fives the most flexibility.
Mending mushroom (exclusively made by Bookhou) but you can also use a wooden ladel or spoon, a tennis ball or darning form you already have (darning egg, mushroom etc)
Seam ripper
Paper glue stick like UHU
Needle threader with hook
Curved safety pins
Applique pins

Materials

For patching scraps of fabric in the same weight ad fabric type as your garment, make sure the patch is atleast 1" wider on all sides that the hole you're patching.
Sockweight yarn – wool/nylon blend for strength and flex. Mini skeins.
Mohair or mohair blend fingering weight yarn for weaving- Check with your local yarn shop or on etsy to find sample sizes, and small bits of this.
DMC tapestry wool, ScanFil's mending wool or Appleton’s crewel work wool for woven mends.
Sashiko thread, DMC perle cotton size 8, or hand-quilting threads for small woven mends. Arounna does not recommend embroidery floss as it separates creating weak mends.

Other useful mending videos and techniques on Creativebug:

The Quilters Knot taught by Heidi Parkes
Cal Patch’s How to Mend Clothes class which covers darning with crochet, traditional darning and mending with patches.
Lisa Solomon’s Sashiko class or Daily Practice if you want to take it in bite-size chunks. .

Downloads:

Download Materials List Visible_Mending_sashiko_stitch_and_patch_sewing_booklet.pdf

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