The Mending Quilt Community Project: Session Two

Join guest artist Mike Durkin in a community mending and quilting project. FREE to attend! Please RSVP so we know how many to expect.

Four sessions will be offered - participants are welcome to come to as many as they would like.

Let us mend together.  Mike will conduct story-sharing sessions centering around mending, while we mend our clothing or supplies.  Participants will gather with torn clothes and items and Mike will teach and help mend those clothing.  We will also talk about other areas in our life we need to mend, relationships, habits, and other important issues the participant is engaged in.  The focus will be on occupying time, the mending, will be hand-sewn.  This action which will take lots of time will help the individual working on focusing, grounding, and being present. Participants can come to a single workshop, or throughout the 4 workshops.

We will explore the concept of mending and repair as we think about 1 year since Hurricane Helene. We then will use this information to make a collaborative quilt.  Inspired by the story-sharing sewing circles of the women in Gee’s Bend, AL, we will create our own mending quilt.  Participants will hand-sew their own designed squares to be part of the larger quilt.  This will culminate in a sharing session where we will unveil the quilt as well as participants will share stories around their squares.

In preparation for the workshops, participants should bring any items they are looking to mend. This could be a sweater, a purse, a blanket, a sock, or anything else! This project has been conducted all over the country and the contribution of fabric and materials to the fiber bank aids in this. If possible, participants can bring materials or fabric to be incorporated and donated to the fiber bank.