Creatively Mend Your Knitwear – Visible Mending Workshop
Take your mending skills to the next level with this hands-on, two- and-a-half-hour Creative Knitwear Mending Workshop, led by Madeline Tanoto (Mads Do & Mend CIC).
This workshop is designed for those with some basic sewing and stitching experience who want to explore creative, visible mending techniques that extend the life of their favourite woollens while celebrating repair as a decorative craft.
Please note: This workshop does not cover basic darning techniques. If you've already completed the Darning @ Bell House workshop, this is the perfect follow-on course to expand your skills and discover new ways to repair and transform your knitwear.
During the workshop you'll learn a range of decorative repair techniques, including:
Adding and securing decorative patches
Different ways to use Blanket Stitch
Honeycomb darning
Scotch darning
Decorative hand stitching and embellishment techniques for knitwear
Madeline will guide you through each technique with practical demonstrations while introducing the tools, materials and yarns that can be used to continue mending at home.
All materials are provided. Please bring a woollen item from home to repair, such as a jumper, cardigan or scarf with holes or worn areas. Items with moth damage work particularly well. However, we will also provide a recycled wool swatch to practice on, so you can just use this if you wish.
Visible mending is a wonderful way to repair, personalise and extend the life of your clothes, helping you build a more sustainable wardrobe while creating something beautifully unique.
Please note: All workshops are non-refundable.
MADELINE TANOTO BIO
Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker, textile educator and founder of Mads Do & Mend CIC, with over 20 years' experience across fashion, textiles, design and education. She specialises in visible mending and creative repair, helping people build confidence in extending the life of their clothes through practical, sustainable skills.
Madeline creates welcoming, inclusive workshops that celebrate repair as both a creative practice and a way to connect with others. Through Mads Do & Mend CIC, she delivers community textile projects and mending programmes in partnership with organisations including CP Company, Lewisham Council, Southwark Council, Veolia and Fine Cell Work, alongside charities, housing associations and local community groups.
Her mission is simple: to empower individuals and communities to mend their clothes — and themselves — through craft, creativity and connection.
