TEENS Sort Out Your Jeans (Ages 14–18)

Calling all  young people aged 14–18.

Denim gets better the older it gets… At least, until it's finally worn too thin to wear.  
When your favourite jeans bite the dust, do you: 

A) Bin them with a sniff, sell a kidney to buy a new pair, and spend the next few years grieving that old, buttery softness? 

Or do you: B) Sign up to the new Sort Your Jeans Out workshop at Share & Repair to learn how to repair your beloved old denim so you can wear it with pride for years to come?!  

Anna from the Love Makers Cafe joins forces with Share & Repair to teach you how in this fun, practical and insightful session.  We’ll explore a range of woven textile mending techniques routed in the elegant Japanese traditions of Boro and Sashiko.  

Come with your own damaged denim and leave having learned how to mend it!  

All tools and materials provided.  

Learn lifelong skills you will be able to use time and again to strengthen and extend any woven textiles in an elegant and accessible way. 

Tea, coffee and cake will be provided, please email workshops@shareandrepair.org.uk if you have any dietary requirements.

ABOUT ANNA:
Anna has loved making and mending things for as long as she can remember: figuring out saws and soldering irons at her dad's knee; then as a fine art and ceramics scholar, before life aboard her first houseboat whilst at university cemented her passion for practical creativity and working with her hands.
The Love Makers Cafe exists to celebrate making, mending, curiosity and community. Put simply, we believe in: IRL face-to-face friendship and community; using our hands; and all the feel-good stuff that those things bring.