Mending Workshop with Leah Giblin

Learn tips and tricks on how to mend and repair your clothes with Leah Giblin. Bring along items you'd like to repair and receive inspiration or advice.

Leah will provide prepped mending demos, patching fabrics and darning equipment so you can practice. Free feel to bring your own tools such as: sewing needles, threads, scissors, pins, buttons, fabric scraps, tape measure, quick unpick.

Give your clothes a new lease on life and join the sustainable fashion movement.

Knowledge required: No skills required, all levels welcome. Suitable for 14+ years.

What to bring: your own mending/repairing projects and sewing tools

Duration: Approximately 1.5 hours.

Workshop price: $20 (plus booking fee and GST), which is redeemable on the day towards any craft or gardening book purchase.

Pick up your $20 coupon after the workshop. This coupon is only valid on 22 June 2025.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A practical guide to buying less and caring more for your clothing

Leah Giblin grew up with the best dress-up collection, spending hours styling and playing with her siblings. She has always loved making clothes and she's also always cared deeply about environmental issues. In an era of fast fashion where far too many clothes are being made and discarded, Leah reinvents the clothing she already owns instead of buying something new.

In How to Keep Your Clothes Forever, learn practical ways to apply this 'dress-up box' philosophy to your own life, so you can buy fewer new clothes, take better care of your old ones, and give well-loved pieces a new lease on life. Whether you're new to sewing or a professional looking to level up, Leah's clear step-by-step projects will help you to fall (back) in love with the clothes you already own, and arm you with the necessary knowledge to make truly sustainable and ethical choices that are not just good for your wallet but the planet too.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Leah Giblin is a Sydney-based textile designer, teacher and costume artist with a focus on sustainability, recycling, waste reduction and non-chemical processes.

Through design and the use of natural dyes, fibres and upcycled materials, Leah's locally manufactured label Day Keeper achieves minimal waste and environmental impact. She also runs a variety of mending, natural dyeing and upcycling workshops for local councils and museums; teaches fashion and textiles to university students; and is the mother of two beautiful eco-warriors of the future.