Saturday 26th September 2026 - 10am to 4pm
The Colour Factory, The Lodge, Gordon Road, Winchester, SO23 7DD
£95
Learn a variety of fun and simple techniques to visibly mend and repair your clothes.
Join me for a day of visibly mending clothes: from wovens to knits via jersey and denim.
You will learn how to patch clothes as well as how to understand different types of fabrics and the best stitches to use. We will then explore ways to darn and embellish knits to bring them back into rotation as part of your wardrobe.
Suitable for all levels of experience (although some dexterity is required as we work entirely by hand), you will discover the satisfaction in mending your clothes and develop a new skill set you can use time and time again.
At the end of the day you will have started to tackle your mending pile and made a small collection of patches to use in future mends.
About Your Tutor
Samantha Boot is a contemporary Artist Maker, working by hand with thread, cloth and words. She gained a BA (Hons) Textiles from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, UK (1997) and since returning to textiles in 2020, she was placed 3rd for Handwork at QuiltCon Phoenix, USA (2022), was awarded DYCP Funding from Arts Council England (2022) and has spoken about and exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including as part of the Fine Art Textile Biennale 2025, Australia. She has work in private collections around the world and is a Juried Member of both SAQA.com and Design-Nation, UK.
Samantha is also a regular mender of quilts, jeans, knitwear, socks, soft toys and her daughter's school uniform, and has taken part in a global 'patch swap' for the past eight years.