Gather & Mend

I never imagined that leaning into the beauty and utility of weathered goods would lead to a lesson in radical self-acceptance. While this event series is a monthly mending session (join one or all), it's also an intentional social gathering: part community building, part skill building, and part creative exploration, all supported via 100% secondhand supplies & tools. So: grab a few bits from your mending pile (or select one of ours) and let us hook you up with notions & fibers that will add life - and artful expression - to things that have already served us well.  There will be no formal instruction: experimentation and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing are skillsets worth strengthening, so we'll be figuring things out together, perhaps with help & inspiration from a book or three.  Tools and supplies (a generous, diversely-colored assortment of cotton & wool patches & threads, buttons, hooks, needles, scissors, etc.) will be available for use during each event, wi