Fix that hole – hand sewn textile repair

Taught by Julia Gartrell

Community Workshop: Open to all – no Duke affiliation required!

Do you have a favorite sweatshirt, stuffie, blanket or other fabric item with a hole in it? Come learn to fix it by hand at this mending workshop! Participants will learn basic hand sewing techniques to fix a variety of textile problems. No sewing skills required, but people already familiar with hand sewing may learn some additional embellishment techniques. If you don’t have something to mend but still want to learn, we will have extra fabric to experiment with.

Meet the Instructor

Julia Gartrell

Julia Gartrell is a sculptor and public artist whose work explores material culture, unusual approaches to traditional craft techniques, and Southern storytelling. She runs the Radical Repair Workshop, a traveling …

More Info

Duke Arts Create is a series of free, hands-on arts workshops designed to help all Duke students, including graduate and professional students (including Duke Health), as well as Duke faculty and staff develop a variety of creative skills in the visual arts, dance and movement, creative writing and more. Workshops are open to all skill levels and backgrounds. Most workshops are held in the Duke Arts Annex, the Rubenstein Arts Center or the Duke Arts Office 2101 and are typically held weeknights from 6-8 p.m.

Registration for the following week’s Duke Arts Create workshops go live on Friday morning at 9 a.m. – sign up in advance to guarantee your spot. Didn’t get a spot? No problem! We always reserve space for walk-ins and waitlist registers. Email DukeCreate@duke.edu if you have any questions. Sign up for the monthly newsletter here, which includes the full list of classes offered during the following month.

Duke Arts Create is sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts (Duke Arts).