Darn it! Online mending course
Spend 6 weeks with me and learn how to use the most popular darning techniques to visibly mend your favourite well worn garments in this online course.
With limited spaces, live workshops each week, mending challenges and a supportive group chat to share your mends this is the perfect way to ease into the winter months with darning at your side.
Let's get darning
I’ve designed this 6 week course to cover all of the aspects of darning that I use day to day for repairing well worn and well loved clothes.
From knowing which types of darns to apply to different kinds of fabrics and having the confidence to experiment with colour, this course will expand your darning knowledge and leave you feeling not only ready but excited to tackle your mending pile.
Spaces are limited to 8 for a close knit group that allows everyone to get involved and share their progress. There will also be a group chat for support throughout the course.
Who is this course for?
This course is suitable for absolute beginners or for those who have already dipped their toes into the world of darning.
Each week we’ll cover a new technique and we’ll look at tips and tricks to help you along the way. The course offers over 12 hours of live (and recorded to watch again) mending knowledge and you’ll come away with the following:
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🪡 The language of mending! You’ll know your warp from your weft and the difference between scaffolding stitches and scaffolding pins
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🤩 The confidence to know which techniques to apply to different kinds of damage
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🎨 The curiosity to try different colour combinations and ways to approach the visible element of mending that reflects you and your clothing
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🧵 Troubleshooting tips and tricks for different fabrics and yarns
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👕 Knowledge about how to use different mending techniques across different garments
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♻️ A feeling of empowerment in knowing that by mending you are actively helping to tackle the textile waste crisis and reduce the amount of clothing sent to landfill
Course overview
Week one | Woven darning
In week one we'll cover:
- What is woven darning?
- The warp and weft
- Darning a simple shape
- Adding surrounding stitches
- Weaving in the ends
Week two | Honeycomb & Scotch darning
In week two we'll cover two darning techniques:
- Honeycomb darning
- Scotch darning
- The difference between these techniques when darning over a hole vs. thinned out areas
- Weaving in the ends
Week three | Microweaves
In week three, we'll experiment with patterened darns and adding colour:
- Twill weave
- Herringbone weave
- Houndstooth
- General checked patterns
Week four | Darning jumper cuffs
In week four we'll flip what we know about woven darning on its head to repair frayed and torn jumper cuffs:
- It's all about the tension
- Warp and weft or weft and warp?
Week five | Swiss darning 1.0
In week five we'll move on to the first part of swiss darning techniques:
- What is swiss darning?
- Duplicate stitch
- Harvesting yarn
- Weaving in the ends
Week six | Swiss darning 2.0
In our final week, we'll look at further swiss darning techniques:
- Rebuilding stitches with pins
- Rebuilding stitches with scaffolding threads
- A note on garter stitch
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Week one
Woven darning
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Week two
Honeycomb & Scotch darning
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Week three
Microweaves
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Week four
Darning jumper cuffs
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Week five
Swiss darning 1.0
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Week six
Swiss darning 2.0
Tickets
There are 8 places available for this course with 4 earlybird tickets, and the option to add a materials kit to your order (UK only) that will be posted out prior to the course starting.
Earlybird tickets: £240
General release tickets: £260
Earlybird tickets with materials kit (UK only): £278
General release tickets with materials kit (UK only): £298
There will be a payment plan in place if you need to split the cost into two payments; the first payment will be due at time of purchase with the remaining payment occurring 14 days after the initial payment.
The timeline
Darn it! will begin on Tuesday 4th November and will run every week until the 9th December.
Live workshops will be held on Tuesdays at 6pm (UK GMT) on Google Meet. Workshops will be recorded to watch at a later date if needed. There will be a group chat (platform TBC) for support and to share projects as the course progresses.