Creative Patching - A Sustainable Fashion Workshop with Artist and Fashion Designer Jessamy Shay

**This workshop is now full. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, email Sarah at [email protected]**

Come to the Honan-Allston Branch to learn a sustainable and beautiful way to mend clothes! 

Creative Patching will focus on how to repair holes, tears, and stains in clothing using fabric patches and hand embroidery techniques. Participants will learn about tools and materials for patching, and how to combine fabric patches with simple hand embroidery stitches to create eye-catching visible mends. Leave class with a sampler of techniques that you can refer back to when tackling your own mends at home. 

This workshop is suitable for beginners with little or no sewing experience.

About the Instructor:

Jessamy is a Somerville-based textile artist and sustainable fashion designer specializing in creative mending and upcycling. She earned a BFA in Fibers and Certificate in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and has been teaching creative mending and sewing in the Boston area and beyond since January 2022, including at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts and Patagonia. See her work at www.jessamyshay.com.

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