Visible Mending with Cathy Karp

Add personality to your clothes while saving the planet! Push back against the throw-away fashion trend, and learn how to give old clothes new life with visible mending.

Visible mending uses many approaches to restore old, used or torn clothing and fabric items. It’s both a creative process, a relaxing and meditative practice, and a way to demonstrate a commitment to sustainability by reducing waste and pollution.

Join us as Catherine Karp leads a workshop, where she will demonstrate how to use embroidery, patching and darning techniques to restore and revive damaged or worn out textiles. Beginners will leave with a sampler including the five basic stitches along with three ways to patch.

Class take home kit includes; a pair of Olympus Brand Sashiko needles, one skein of DMC 6 strand embroidery thread, 1 skein of Sashiko thread, one spool of Perle cotton, one spool of wool, a tapestry needle threader, and a few fabric scraps for mending.

In the class access to all the communal tools and materials; a variety of threads including colorful Sashiko threads, fabric markers, pencils, thimbles, scissors, needles, and plenty of scraps for your mending projects.

Please be sure to wear your good reading glasses.

ALL skill levels welcome!

Bio: Catherine Karp has been mending since she was a young girl, learning to sew from her mother and grandmother. She was attracted to vintage and clothing in her teens and found alterations usually were necessary. That led to doing it in a more creative way, often with the results more of an embellishment. Over the years she taught sewing and ‘upcycling classes’ which relied on remaking something in a creative way. From there, visible mending was a natural step. She has been teaching classes all around New England and enjoys spreading the love of renew, reuse, and repurposing textiles.
You can find more of their work at https://www.ckrevive.com

Read about this class here! https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2025/02/10/the-art-of-visible-mending-with-catherine-karp/

Class price: $50 per person

Thursday March 20th, 6:00 - 9:00pm

Ages 12 and up.

Questions? Email us at [email protected]! We will get back to you as soon as possible!

Directions: The Spice Lab is immediately adjacent to our spice shop, at 2267 Massachusetts Ave. Metered parking is available along Mass Ave, or there is a lot at the intersection of Day Street and Herbert Street towards Davis Square if you don't mind a quick walk!

Refund policy: Full refund or credit available up to 1 week prior to the event.

Host or Publisher Curio Spice Co