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🪡✨Repair and Rewear ✨🪡
maker • mender • teacher
Author of A Beginner’s Guide to Visible Mending
🍂Autumn mending classes👇🏽

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Mend or end!?
I love the holes, worn patches and imperfections! A bit of time, some thread and a bit of imagination can help turn something from being destined for the bin or the back of the wardrobe into something to wear over and over!
So, what would you have done - mended it or let it go?
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#VisibleMending #slowstitching #slowfashion #darning #repairdontreplace by @_sewingsmith_

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✨A Beginners Guide to Visible Mending ✨

Months in the making, but finally here and
available for pre order NOW follow the link below! I will be having a launch party in September - more details to follow, suffice to say, you are all invited, but if you would like to get your hands on a copy now please follow the link below… thank you for being here, I really appreciate all the likes, follows and comments🙏🏽 🥰😘✨🪡
https://geni.us/VisibleMending
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#publishedauthor #abegginersguidetovisiblemending #visiblemending #sewingsmith #repairandrewear by @_sewingsmith_

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It’s not often I show my face here, but the wonderful @annarose_mcchesney took some photos of me that I thought might be nice to share! Who knew I talk with my hands so much 😂
A huge thanks to @raystitch for having me as one of your guest tutors, it’s such an honour 🥰 I will be back in the autumn term with lots more visible mending and sashiko classes ( link in bio) and of course my book launch! 📚✨📚
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#sewingsmith #sewingteacher #sashiko #embroidery #visiblemending taken in Ray Stitch by @_sewingsmith_

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✨thank you @goodwoodrevival and @petworthbookshop for inviting me to teach and sign books it was such a fun day✨
Dressing up, teaching, bit of showing off, chatting to people about sewing and a bit of dancing… some of my favourite things!
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#goodwoodrevival #visiblemending #abegginersguidetovisiblemending #sewing #mending by @_sewingsmith_

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'A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending' is out today! 🪡

Bring new life to old clothes or charity-shop finds and create your sustainable wardrobe.

Perfect for complete beginners, this handbook introduces a variety of mending techniques and shows you how to make unique projects with your new skills.

The 20 beautiful projects include adding needle-felted embellishments to a scarf, repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching a hole in fine silk fabric and adding colourful darning to a jumper.

'A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending' by @_sewingsmith_ is out now! 📸 James Gardiner

#visiblemending #makedoandmend #sewingsmith #repairandrewear by @_sewingsmith_

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Happy release day to @_sewingsmith_ !
“A Beginner’s Guide to Visible Mending” is exactly that, a brilliant handbook to all things mending, from intricate darns to decorative Sashiko.
If you’ve met Shelley you’ll know that as well as being incredibly knowledgeable she is also so encouraging and inspiring- this book captures that energy perfectly and will be a great companion for any aspiring menders 🌞
Join us on October 1st as we celebrate the release of Shelley’s book in store, and we also have an upcoming Sashiko workshop that still has a few spaces 🧵

#mending #sashiko #darning taken in Ray Stitch by @_sewingsmith_

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Is it me or does Summer seem to have stopped rather abruptly?? Okay, bit rude, but tbh I really love Autumn 🍂🧡 🍂so if that is the case can we talk about socks?? Do you love socks ? I flippin love a sock so much so that I dedicated a whole section in my book covering different types of ways to mend socks, plus would like to join me and learn this Autumn term? I have loads of new classes @raystitch, @nestsewingschool @wildandwoollyshop where I am teaching both visible mending and sashiko inspired mending, the links for all the classes is in my bio🧵🪡🧵Plus there are a few tickets left for the launch party of my book A Beginners Guide to Visible Mending at Ray Stitch on Oct 1st 🧦💛🧦Hope to see you there and happy mending everyone😍😘
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#abeginnersguidetovisblemending #visiblemending #mendingsocks #darning by @_sewingsmith_

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Tickets are now on sale if you would like to join me for a fun evening @raystitch on Oct 1st for my book launch. Follow the link in my bio and come meet me, have a drink, eat some nibbles and have your book signed, it will be lots of fun! There are lots of classes planned for the Autumn term @raystitch @nestsewingschool and @wildandwoollyshop
Hope to see you there! 🍂🧵🪡❤️🪡🧵🍂
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#abeginnersguidetovisiblemending #sewing #mending #wearandrepair #visiblemending by @_sewingsmith_

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Come celebrate the launch of my book with me at gorgeous haberdashery @raystitch on Oct 1st from 6.30 - 8.30pm! There are only 30 spaces, tickets are £20 which include a signed book, drinks and nibbles plus 10% discount in the shop 🎉🙌🏽🎉
Follow the link in my bio and can’t wait to see you there!
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#booklaunch #abeginnersguidetovisiblemending #visiblemending #knitwearrepair #sewingsmith by @_sewingsmith_

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Oh my goodness, look what arrived today… available for preorder (link in my bio) and out on September 15th with lots of fun classes and parties to celebrate A Beginnings Guide to Visible Mending!

https://geni.us/VisibleMending

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#abeginnersguidetovisiblemending #visiblemending #sewingbook #repair #sewingsmith

Sneek peek 👀🥰😊

https://geni.us/VisibleMending by @_sewingsmith_

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2 months ago

For anyone who missed out on a place on our upcoming Stitching Gujarat tour, you’re in luck… we’ve had three spaces become available on what was previously a sold out journey.

This tour has been over a year in the making and has been carefully designed with a central purpose: to place the embroidery and stitching traditions of Gujarat at the heart of the experience.

As we travel across the region, we’ll spend time with artisan communities, learning about the stories, heritage and techniques that have been passed down through grandmothers, to mothers, to daughters. We’ll sit with women whose embroidery carries generations of knowledge, something that is a genuine privilege for us to experience.

If you’ve been hoping to join this journey, now is your chance - please drop one of us a message to see the detailed tour itinerary. by @_sewingsmith_

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