ON THE MEND: A New Visible Mending Course
January 22- February 23, 2024
An interactive, dynamic, five-week, online mending course to stitch, patch, darn, and deepen your textile redesign practice with a creative community.
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1. Weekly video lessons.
Professionally-filmed and edited class videos and full tutorials with high-quality visuals and sound.
2. Detailed tutorials & much more.
Full mending and darning videos on various textiles (like denim jeans and wool sweaters); insights on favorite tools and materials; numerous design tips; samples of finished work on various textiles; resources and more.
3. Written lessons.
In addition to the videos each week you'll receive an original written lesson with photographs; a lesson that's a creative prompt to challenge you to go deeper with that week's theme; and a feature on another mender/ textile artist.
4. Interactive private community.
A private community classroom will provide multiple opportunities to share your work with other participants, post work-in-progress, and glean insights from the class community. You'll probably make a mending friend, or ten.
5. Weekly live studio sessions.
Weekly, live, 45-minute FAQ office hours/ open studio sessions with me, Katrina Rodabaugh, to answer questions and offer additional insights. All live sessions will also be recorded to view afterwards. (These sessions are not necessary for full class participation, just a bonus.)
6. Access for three months.
This course is designed to participate weekly for five weeks from Jan 22- Feb 23, 2024. In addition, you'll have access to the recorded content for three months to review videos, writings, photos, FAQ studio sessions, etc.
Mending Skillfulness
Benefit from extensive experience and proven mending techniques.
Sustainable Fashion
Learn to mend and repair your clothes to keep them from the landfill.
Creative Insights
Gain insights on the design elements that make more beautiful repairs.
Let's mend things. Together.
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About Katrina
Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Katrina Rodabaugh, fiber artist and best-selling author of Mending Matters (2018) and Make Thrift Mend (2021). I've taught thousands of students online and in-person and I'm thrilled to offer this virtual mending class. My work has appeared in The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Earth, Selvedge Magazine and more. I earned a BA in Environmental Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing but my fiber arts training started as a child at the side of my mother's sewing machine. Let's mend things. Together.
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