How To Mend Your Clothes with Everyone Needs Pockets
Come and learn how to mend your clothes in this hands on session upstairs at the Cheese and Grain, Frome
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Cheese & Grain
Justice Lane Frome BA11 1BE United KingdomGood to know
Highlights
- 2 hours
- Ages 18+
- In person
- Doors at 10:50
Refund Policy
About this event
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.
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.
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.
Come and enjoy a relaxed social atmosphere of mending your clothes.
These sessions are designed for all abilities and many different kind of repairs. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult throughout the session.
Please answer the questions as you book in, so we know how best to help you!
This session takes place upstairs at the Cheese and Grain and is fully accessible(via lift).
Your hosts:
Everyone Needs Pockets is a mycelium of people and projects reimagining a responsible, inclusive and sustainable clothing and textile industry. We are weaving together a new neighbourhood-scale clothing and textile culture to nurture and restore the health of our community and the planet. Everyone Needs Pockets is a growing network of 200+ makers, designers, stitchers, knitters, sustainable fashion fans and researchers based in Frome.
There's a warm and friendly welcome!
Everyone Needs Pockets is currently supported by Edventure's Future Shed. Future Shed is part of Green & Healthy Frome, a partnership programme of Edventure Frome, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council taking action on health and climate, funded by the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund.
Frequently asked questions
The Cheese and Grain has step free access and a lift to go upstairs. There is an accessible toilet in the building.
We have basic kit including needles of various types, threads, darning wool, scissors, pins, and bits of fabric.
We have lots of things you can use from needles, threads, scissors, patching cloth! - but if you want anything specific - for example, you may want to match the colour of a thread, or darning wool, then please bring it. Millie Moon on Catherine Hill has a great selection of threads and fabrics.
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!
Yes - please email everyoneneedspockets@gmail.com for the attention of Jill
No! The best thing is to come along and learn. Stitching and mending things can be take time, but once you learn how to do some basic things, it can be easy and you learn new skills! People often tell us what a wonderful time they've had.
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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