MAKE-A-MENDS
Keep your clothing out of a landfill!
Join teachers Nicole Foti and Angela Kunz for a hands-on workshop focused on building foundational hand-sewing skills you can use to mend your favorite garments and gear.
Whether you're just getting started or want to level up your mending game, you'll get practical techniques, creative inspiration, and one-on-one support. Bring a project you'd like to mend—we’ll offer individual consultations and troubleshooting tips for your personal sewing machine too.
Come have fun, learn, connect, laugh and create change!
Supply List:
Embroidery floss
Sewing thread
Pins
Chalk/fabric marker
Snips/fabric shears
Ruler/tape measure
Scrap materials
Sewing machine
Mending project of your choice
Come learn, connect, laugh, and be part of a movement toward more sustainable living.
When: Saturday, March 29th, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Where: The Living Room at Full Circle; 297 Bruynswick Rd. Gardiner, NY 12525
Cost: $50 / $65 (with mending kit)
Mending Kit includes: embroidery floss, pins, embroidery needles, chalk, fabric marker, snips, and a tape measure.
Nicole Foti has over a decade of experience working in the fashion industry. As a Marist University alumna, Nicole fell in love with the Hudson Valley. In 2017, after years working in New York City, Nicole moved to Upstate NY full time to teach Fashion Design and Merchandising at the Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Center. As an educator, Nicole hopes to help others build sustainable practices into their day-to-day lives and teach valuable and empowering skills to the community.
Angela Kunz has over 18 years of teaching fashion design and before that had her own clothing line selling both wholesale as well as had a storefront in the LES of NYC.. Angela is a Pratt Institute graduate (in 2000) and has loved all the different places fashion design has taken her. She started sewing, designing and pattern making at 12 years old and has never looked back. Her true passion and mission in life is to keep the world sewing and bring people back to the basics of slow fashion, sustainability, repaired, reused and loved clothing and move the world away from the incredibly wasteful and environmentally damaging world of fast fashion.