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Visible Mending Workshop Series

🪡 Join Olga and her team from Studio Thimbles to learn how to use visible mending to fix and revive your items! 🧵 This 2-part workshop series is designed to teach you some practical mending skills and encourage you to get creative and personalise your clothing 👕.
Over the two workshops, you will be covering:
- Fundamental skills for hand sewing such as setting up the needle, tying proper knots and how to start & finish your stitching
- Various hand-stitching methods that are essential for mending
- How to do embroidery stitching to add decorative elements to the mending process
- Elements of Sashiko stitching, a traditional Japanese technique that is popular in the world of visible mending
âť—Â Please note that this is a 2-part workshop, and you will need to attend both 2-hour workshops over the two weeks âť—
Details:
đź“…Â Date:Â Wednesday 4th September & Wednesday 11th September
đź•™Time:Â 5pm – 7pm
🏠 Address: Subiaco Library located at 237 Rokeby Rd, Subiaco
đźš—Parking:Â Street parking is available. Alternatively, the library is only a short walk from the Subiaco train station.
đź’°Â Cost: $5