How To Mend Your Clothes with Everyone Needs Pockets in Frome

How To Mend Your Clothes with Everyone Needs Pockets in Frome

Come and learn how to mend your clothes in this hands on session with volunteers from Everyone Needs Pockets Network at the Cheese & Grain

By Future Shed - Edventure Frome

Date and time

Sat, 31 May 2025 11:00 - 13:00 GMT+1

Location

Cheese & Grain

Justice Lane Frome BA11 1BE United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Holes in your clothes? Button fallen off? Tear in a favourite shirt? Things lying about waiting for that mend? Here's your opportunity to fix them in this hands on session.

Talented volunteer stitchers and menders from the Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network can help work out what needs doing and how to fix it, supporting you to mend your own clothes.

Come and enjoy a relaxed social atmosphere of mending your clothes. These sessions are designed for all abilities and many different kind of repairs. Please answer the questions as you book in, so we know how best to help you!

What we can help with:

  • Buttons and fasteners
  • Taking up hems and some fitting adjustments
  • Mending and darning holes
  • Advice on how you might repair a piece of clothing, including zips.

Your hosts:

Everyone Needs Pockets is a growing network of 150+ makers, designers, stitchers, knitters, supporters and researchers. The network works together to grow projects and enterprises that reuse textiles, save carbon and landfill and increase our wellbeing: revamp, repurpose, reuse, repair.

Future Shed Frome offers practical support to get green and healthy initiatives and enterprises off the ground through building networks, connecting people and start-up coaching. Share ideas, get support to bring them to life and make new connections so that we’re all better equipped for a greener, healthier future. Future Shed is part of Edventure, an organisation supporting community entrepreneurship in Frome.

This activity is part of Green & Healthy Frome a partnership programme with Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council taking action on health and climate. It is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund's Climate Action Fund.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the space accessible?

The Cheese & Grain upstairs rooms are accessible via a lift from inside the main foyer. There is an accessible toilet in the building.

What sewing kit do you have that I can use?

We have basic kit including needles of various types, threads, darning wool, scissors, pins, and bits of fabric.

What do `I need to bring?

You need to bring anything specific for your mend. So you may want to match the colour of a thread, or darning wool. Millie Moon on Catherine Hill has a great selection of threads and fabrics.

How many items of clothing can I bring to mend?

It's best to just bring one item and focus on that. You're welcome to bring a couple of things but be prepared not to finish everything. But you will hopefully have the skills you need to carry on the mend at home!

Is there a contact for me to ask a question?

Yes - please email everyoneneedspockets@gmail.com for the attention of Jill

Do I need to have any skills already?

No! The best thing is to come along and learn. Stitching and mending things can be challenging, but once you learn how to do some basic things, it can be easy and you learn new skills!

Who are the volunteers from Everyone Needs Pockets?

All the people supporting you are volunteers, and while they are skilled and talented, we cannot take responsibility for your mends and repairs.

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Future Shed - Edventure Frome

These events are organised by Edventure Frome. They are part of the Green & Healthy Frome partnership programme run by Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council. They are funded by the National Lottery's Climate Action Fund.