Visible & creative mending (autumn 2026) – a 6-week course

Add style and personal touches to your clothes by learning techniques to mend, renew and prolong the life of your favourite clothes!

Learn a wealth of fun and practical mending techniques to take home and put into action straight away. Extend the life of your favourite items and significantly reduce their environmental impact. Over the course of six weeks the course will cover three techniques each for knitted and woven fabrics.  Mending is the gift that keeps on giving!

Materials provided include: a swatch of knitted fabric, a selection of threads, a swatch of denim, a swatch of cotton, snips and threads, pins, darning profiles, embroidery hoops, felting needles, roving, felting mats.

To bring with you: latch hook (for fixing runs in knitwear), bent needle (for mending), sashiko needle, chenille needle, ball-tipped needle.

OR buy a Kit add-on for £12.50 – see ticket details below (Kit will contain:  latch hook, bent tapestry needle, 2 darners, 1 chenille needle and a half decent threader!) .

What to expect:

Three weeks of woven techniques eg Japanese sashiko & boro-inspired mending, embroidery, applique and patches, plus three weeks of knitted techniques such as English darning, reverse darning and Swiss darning.

The course starts on Thursday 17 September, 7pm and runs for 2 hours a week across six weeks (Thursdays 17 & 24 September and 1, 8, 15 & 22 October).

If you’d like to join BRLSI and secure your place at the member-rate, (along with reduced rate tickets for all our talks, plus other local offers such as 15% off at the Francis Hotel’s restaurant), please go to our membership page here!

Course led by Anna Chapman-Andrews of Love Makers Craft Cafe.