Mending is a metaphor for everything--we repair our jeans and better support the planet; we carve out time to stitch and practice mindfulness; and we gain technical skill and express our creativity with greater confidence. Let's mend things. Let's mend everything. Together.
It’s so nice to meet you!
Hi, I’m Katrina, a fiber artist turned sustainable designer and author. Since starting my sustainable fashion project, Make Thrift Mend, in 2013, I’ve learned that mending can be expressive, beautiful, and incredibly useful. Join me for a virtual craft class and dive deeper into textile repair, design elements, and sustainable living.
“Katrina thoughtfully and articulately lays out her motivations and inspiration for adopting a slow fashion practice and her mending is beautiful and meditative to boot. Â
--V. F.
Let's Mend Things
Looking for more sustainable design resources? Check out these offerings.
Mending Matters
Shares 22 how-to techniques to mend, stitch, patch, and repair your favorite denim and more. This book focuses exclusively on hand-stitching to repair woven garments like linen, cotton, silk, and denim. Includes five original essays, contributor quotes, and over 200 color photographs. Now in its ninth printing, this best-selling book was first published by Abrams Books, 2018.Â
Make Thrift Mend
A fiber arts guide for sustainable fashion. This book shares over 20 step-by-step tutorials in sustainable fashion by sewing (like turning a tablecloth into a top); using natural plant dyes to redesign secondhand clothes; and repairing woven garments like denim and darning knitted garments like sweaters. This book takes the reader on a transformative personal journey. Published with Abrams Books, 2021.
My Instagram
For more resources and insights on visible mending, plant-dyeing, slow fashion, and my ongoing creative practice, check out my IG account. You'll glean insights on my studio habits, favorite tools and materials, beloved garden, renovating our old farmhouse, and so much more. Embedded in the posts are original essays, endless inspiration, and mini video tutorials.
Use what you have. Make what you love. The rest will follow.
In this new virtual course, you will learn to mend textiles like denim jeans and wool sweaters through stitching, patching, and darning. You'll be guided through tools, materials, techniques, design elements, and so much more.
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