This class is a guide through the sustainable art of Visible Mending. This session will focus on jeans, and we will discuss common types of mends such as blown out knees, interior thigh, and pocket holes thanks to our cell phones. In class you will learn how to clean out rips and holes to prepare the fabric for patching, how to patch from inside the garment and how to patch from the top of the garment using a patch made in class. The class is taught by guest artist and instructor, Paula Hyatt.

Materials:

• A pair of jeans in need of mending (or just decorating!)
• All other materials provided

Artist Paula Hyatt Bio:

Paula loves all things fiber art and especially Sashiko stitching. Though her formal education and work experience are in finance and business, creativity in finance is not advisable. Thus, Paula’s love of the fiber arts. While looking for a way to repair a favorite pair of jeans, Paula learned about visible mending and Sashiko. With her jeans successfully repaired, she was eager to learn more about this sustainable practice. This journey revealed an art that has centuries of tradition, and a multifaceted history as engaging as the art itself.

Since then, Paula has been practicing Sashiko for close to a decade. Originally self-taught, she later had the opportunity to learn from a Sashiko teacher from Kyoto, Japan. This experience helped her to better hone her knowledge of both the art, its history, and its current uses in daily life.  Paula has taught classes at the Fiber Arts Collective in Ashland and enjoys sharing Sashiko with others.