Hand Mending & Darning for Knit Wear
with Alexa Anderson + Slowdown Studio
Sunday l April 26 l 12:00- 3:00pm
In this mending workshop we learn to darn and patch our knitwear- sweaters, socks, and delicate wool base layers by hand. Through creative improvisation, we’ll utilize basic mending techniques to artfully return our once-broken garments to new life.
We’ll talk favorite tools, materials, and the value of keeping something alive and in use- but we’ll also explore the emotional connections we make with our garments and the stories they connect us to.
We all come to this work with our individual motivations: the meditative and somatic aspects of handwork, the metaphors for relational repair to self and others, and the reality that repair work in some communities and cultures is a result of socioeconomic status, remote living, or simply wanting to opt out of the consumerist cycle.
Students should bring current mending projects such as knit socks, sweaters, and wool base layers with runs or holes. Please bring any project-specific threads, needles, and scissors that you like to work with if you have them, however all levels are welcome and class fee includes some specialty materials and tools you will take home.
Alexa Anderson is a textile artist,natural dyer and teacher living on the Olympic Pennisula. She creates place-based art informed by craft tradition. Her work incorporates second-use textiles, found natural materials, and plant pigments in an effort to center her values of engaging with what already exists, working within the parameters of place and seasonality, and promoting a healthy relationship to production and personal lifestyle.
Join us at Slowdown Studio as we bring all of these threads together into something imperfect, yet whole.
Studio & Refund Policies
Hand Mending & Darning for Knit Wear
with Alexa Anderson + Slowdown Studio
Sunday l April 26 l 12:00- 3:00pm
In this mending workshop we learn to darn and patch our knitwear- sweaters, socks, and delicate wool base layers by hand. Through creative improvisation, we’ll utilize basic mending techniques to artfully return our once-broken garments to new life.
We’ll talk favorite tools, materials, and the value of keeping something alive and in use- but we’ll also explore the emotional connections we make with our garments and the stories they connect us to.
We all come to this work with our individual motivations: the meditative and somatic aspects of handwork, the metaphors for relational repair to self and others, and the reality that repair work in some communities and cultures is a result of socioeconomic status, remote living, or simply wanting to opt out of the consumerist cycle.
Students should bring current mending projects such as knit socks, sweaters, and wool base layers with runs or holes. Please bring any project-specific threads, needles, and scissors that you like to work with if you have them, however all levels are welcome and class fee includes some specialty materials and tools you will take home.
Alexa Anderson is a textile artist,natural dyer and teacher living on the Olympic Pennisula. She creates place-based art informed by craft tradition. Her work incorporates second-use textiles, found natural materials, and plant pigments in an effort to center her values of engaging with what already exists, working within the parameters of place and seasonality, and promoting a healthy relationship to production and personal lifestyle.
Join us at Slowdown Studio as we bring all of these threads together into something imperfect, yet whole.
Studio & Refund Policies
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