Hey there, stitch friends! 🧵 This Sunday morning, don’t forget to turn your clocks back for daylight saving time! ⏰ While you’re updating your schedule, take a moment to check out our brand-new Public Calendar of Events. It’s filled with all the good stuff—upcoming circles, workshops, and field trips. You can even add these events straight to your Google Calendar, so you’ll never miss a chance to gather, create, and mend together. ❤️
Weekly Community Visible Mending Circle
Our Community Visible Mending Circle at Cherrydale Library is now every Monday 2-4 PM thru December.
We’ll be mixing things up a bit! ✨ Some weeks, we’ll focus on mending programs—either learning a new mending skill together or hosting an open lab where anyone can bring something to repair. Other times, we’ll have work parties where we prep materials and supplies to help keep all our programs free and accessible for everyone. It’s all about stitching community, one repair at a time! 🪡💛
- Nov. 3: Open lab. Bring your current mending project to work on, with good company and good conversation. We provide fabric swatches and basic sewing supplies. Volunteer mend-tors from Art on the Mend are available for advice.
- Nov. 10: Work Party. We’ll cut upcycled textiles and make sashiko palm thimbles to help keep Art on the Mend programs free for everyone.
- Nov. 17: Darning. Learn how to weave a flexible patch for knits. Bring any item with holes or thinned areas.
- Nov. 24: Work Party. We’ll cut upcycled textiles and make sashiko palm thimbles to help keep Art on the Mend programs free for everyone.
- Dec. 1: Open Lab. Bring your current mending project to work on, with good company and good conversation. We provide fabric swatches and basic sewing supplies. Volunteer mend-tors from Art on the Mend are available for advice.
- Dec. 8: Work Party. We’ll cut upcycled textiles and make sashiko palm thimbles to help keep Art on the Mend programs free for everyone.
- Dec. 15: Sashiko Stitching / Patching. Bring any item to strengthen thinned areas or decorate; or with holes or tears to patch over.
- Dec. 22: Open Lab. Bring your current mending project to work on, with good company and good conversation. We provide fabric swatches and basic sewing supplies. Volunteer mend-tors from Art on the Mend are available for advice.
- Dec. 29: Open Lab. Bring your current mending project to work on, with good company and good conversation. We provide fabric swatches and basic sewing supplies. Volunteer mend-tors from Art on the Mend are available for advice.
Make sure all clothing or other fabric items are clean. If you don’t have any textiles to mend, you can decorate existing textiles or practice on upcycled fabric squares and knits that we provide.
No experience needed. Ages 14+ recommended because we will be handling sharp needles.
GWU Textile Museum Tour
The George Washington University Textile Museum is going to give Art on the Mend a guided tour of their exhibit entitled Source Material: Lessons in Responsible Fashion. The tour will on Saturday, November 22, at 11:00 AM. The guided tour will last one hour and the rest of the museum will be open to explore without a guide. The Textile Museum suggests a donation of $8, but all are welcome even without a donation.
Looking for a Host for a Weekday Evening Circle
We have been hearing from folks that they want another community mending circle for people working during the standard workdays of Monday – Friday 9-5 hours. Most people say that a weekday evening 6:30-8:00 is best. If you know of a free publicly accessible space or venue and perhaps a hosting organization that may want to sponsor supplies to help build community, please contact us. We are hoping to find a place with good physical accessibility and public transport.
Many Thanks
Thank you to:
- Nolan from Nolan Studios for coming to our circle this week to share his art using acrylic paint and upcycled denim.
- Our guest speaker for presenting the History of the Silk Road from her time studying in China.
If you would like to share your textile art, knowledge, or stories, please contact us. We would love to have you!
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Have a friend who may want to join in the visible mending fun? Forward this email to them, so they can subscribe.
Hope to see you soon!
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