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STITCHED MEMORIES RUG FROM A PILE OF OLD CLOTHES
Time Frame: This is one 3-4 hour session.
Suitability: Beginners to medium sewers
Skills to be learned: We will start with basic fabric knowledge - types of fabrics, weaves and their use for clothing (unless you covered that from my other courses). I will take you through basic hand stitches and their uses. We will explore the topic of clothes recycling and what happens after you donate or throw away your clothes. I will show you multiple ways of up cycling your old clothes. Then we will create a small rag rug using your old clothes and hand stitching technique. You will likely to have to continue at home to finish up your rug, but you will walk away will all the knowledge for it!
Description: We are who we are thanks to our experiences. They can be sad and traumatic, but also can be comforting, uplifting and filled with happiness. We don’t carry all our memories in a clear form around in our head all the time, but they’re there, lurking – all they need is a trigger to bring them out. And very often clothes are such triggers. With the help of clothes that belonged to you for quite a while happy memories can be re-visited and preserved.
Every piece of clothing has a memory. Memory of people holding, touching or wearing it, memory of their emotions. Memories make clothes become alive, making them more interesting, more relevant and imbued with meaning. Every individual that interacts with a a piece of clothing adds their own interpretation and meaning. The interlinking of these memories and views gives the garment a new identity, a “soul” almost, something that sums up the essence of it. Thus clothing cease to simply be a thing but become something of significance and often symbolise more than their inherent nature, and this is preserved over the years.
By throwing away our old clothes we throw away our precious memories… On this short course I offer you to preserve all your family's memories and "stitch" them into a "memory rug".
You will need to bring your own(or your relatives') old clothes to make the rug really personal. Any baby or kids clothes, old t-shirts, dresses, leggings, even socks are perfect for this project! If you don't have enough you might consider approaching a local op shop and ask them if they have any bags of clothing that they can't sell or just get a bunch of any old clothes from a local op shop. If you don't have any or much old clothes to bring please let me know in advance, I will provide a pile from local op shop.
Price: $80
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