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This class will be available to view on March 26, 2025.
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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:
- Needle weave mend a piece of clothing
- Use Scotch darning to make minor repairs
- Patch from the front and the back using woven fabrics



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