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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at £500. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Learn to love the clothes you already own.
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5.5 hours
Northampton
6 to 12 guests
£60
What you'll do
The Stitch and Make Studio is a professional working studio that occupies the top floor of a Victorian boot and shoe factory. The studio, established in 2010, is the perfect place to begin your sewing journey. Flooded with sunlight, this fully equipped studio has everything you need to inspire you to be creative. Leave the world outside, park your worries, and prepare to be inspired.According to Oxfam in 2019, we Brits binned 11 million textile items weekly. Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. So we need to start taking better care of the things we choose to wear by repairing, upcycling, remaking, and mending. Through finding joy in new skills and sharing, we not only make ourselves feel better but also help the planet. With this in mind, we have curated an ambitious day of celebrating the clothes we already own by making our wardrobes more sustainable, more individual, more joyful, and finding connection through repairing. We plan to work this in a different way to our usual workshops. We'll have different zones for different mending, repairing, or embellishing techniques. This way, you'll be able to move from space to space and will have the opportunity to learn a range of new techniques.Here's how the day looks:
- Hems: Learn to turn up skirt, dress, and trouser hems. Turn trousers into shorts. You can cut off sleeves or make them a different length.
- Patching: We'll show you how to make some patches from old vintage fabrics which you can use to cover holes. This is a visible mending technique, so it will involve learning how to use blanket stitch or fly stitch. We'll also show you how to hide holes from the inside for a more discreet repair.
- Darning: Learn to darn using a mushroom and wool for jumpers and woollens. This can be either visible or discreet using coloured wools and threads.
- Basic clothes alterations: Replace buttons and poppers, take in skirts and dresses, let out darts, mend tears.
- Embellishments: Embroidery stitches and beading to decorate your clothing.
What you'll get
A range of skills to broaden their sewing knowledge along with a worksheet to support their learning.An enjoyable time spent in the company of like minded people.A new wardrobe of clothes they have learned to love again.Refreshments on hand throughout the day.
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Recent reviews of Mending Matters--Look After Your Clothes Workshop
- 5/5 from Samantha Jones, attended Oct 2026: It was mending matters. I learnt how to put rhinestones and embellishments on my jacket. Not fully finished but now I’ve done enough to know more how to finish. Abbie was absolutely awesome. It was vibrant, friendly and cosy. I had so much fun and I can’t wait to go back. Loved how helpful Abbie was the most and the atmosphere as well as my jacket looks fab so far!! I can’t think of anything that needs improvement. Honestly was awesome.
- 5/5 from Charlotte Luck, attended Oct 2026: Loved the different work stations so I could learn new skills and could be getting on with something if I had to wait for the tutor to help me. Really friendly teachers and group of people.
- 5/5 from Karen Osler, attended Oct 2026: Fantastic day, opportunity to try numerous ways of mending and transforming garments. See you again next year. Thank you.
- 5/5 from Isaber Reverter, attended Oct 2026: I’ve learned so much in this workshop. The venue is lovely, there was a great atmosphere and I left with a big sense of achievement. Thanks!
Your teacher
The Stitch and Make studio sits in the heart of Northampton boot and shoe quarter. It is on the top floor of this remarkable Victorian building that youll find Abi's studio.In a freelance career spanning 4 decades Abi has traveled the world as a costume supervisor, worked back stage with Rod Stewart, Pink, The Stereophonics and Smashing Pumpkins to name just a few as well as designing and making costumes for production companies.At home in her studio she designs, pattern cuts and makes a range of one off pieces from old and repurposed fabrics. Often featuring surface design and hand embroidery these are sold at customer facing textile fairs such as Selvedge, Compton Verney and Sunnybank Mills. Abi is an advocate of the slow fashion movement
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