Hemming and Alterations Workshop

Participants will have the opportunity to bring in their clothing for repair and alteration in this beginner-friendly guided sewing workshop! They'll gain important new sewing skills and knowledge about textile sustainability to help them begin making repairs and alterations from home to extend the closet life of their clothing and help in the fight against fast fashion from home! If you have a sewing machine, we encourage you to bring it in, even if you aren’t confident using it. We will take a look and show you the ropes of your machine to help you get more use out of it at home. If you don’t have a machine, no worries. We’ll have lots of sewing supplies and materials available for customers to use!

10% of all proceeds from the event will go toward the Ocean Cleanup Project. In the vast landscape of the global economy, the fashion industry casts a significant shadow, ranking as the third least environmentally friendly industry worldwide. The fashion industry sends over 65 million tons of textile waste to be burned in landfills every year and releases over 500,00o tons of microplastics into the ocean every year. The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and scaling technologies to rid the world's oceans of plastic. They employ a two-pronged strategy: cleaning up the plastic already accumulated in the ocean, particularly in massive oceanic pileups like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and intercepting plastic in rivers before it reaches the ocean. The Ocean Cleanup has removed tens of millions of kilograms of plastic from rivers and oceans and continues to improve its technology and expand its reach in the fight against ocean plastic pollution.