Sew and Sow
Sat, 22 Feb
|Islington Climate Centre, Angel Central
An afternoon of creativity and chat. Clara will be running a workshop on shirt upcycling, but if you have another sewing project you would like to bring, feel free to rock up, sew away and shoot the breeze whilst listening to the famous smooth stitching playlist. Please book below for workshop.
Time & Location
22 Feb 2025, 14:00 – 18:00
Islington Climate Centre, Angel Central, 21 Parkfield St, London N1 0PS, UK
About the event
As clothing has gotten cheaper, we've lost the art of caring for what we wear, mending and personalising. Big Fashion's aggressive marketing has built emotional obsolescence into our clothes: while our clothing is of worse quality now than 30 years ago, we usually throw it away before it's even worn in. We're primed to clear space for ever more frequent shopping trips. Big Fashion fills their pockets, and you, underpaid workers, and the environment get poorer.
I'm on a mission to empower you to change that! My vision is a world where you love everything you wear, and if you don't love it, you change it before replacing it. For this workshop, you'll learn either:
· Personalisation: embroidery, patching, beading and painting
· Alterations: cropping, turning long sleeves short, adding elastic, or any ideas you have (assuming they are simple alterations)
What to expect:
We will provide: