The Downingtown Mendery

03/03/2026

Soggy weather is the perfect excuse to tackle the mending pile! 🧵

05/18/2025

Two mending workshops this week, both with fabulous participants! Thanks to for hosting and to everyone who attended. Keep on mending! 🧵

04/29/2025

Excellent mending weather. ☀️🧵

04/28/2025

Join us for one of two FREE workshops in May. Hosted by the , you can choose between an evening and a morning class. Registration is required, so
visit the links in our bio to sign up!

Bring an item that needs to be patched or
mended, and we'll get you started!

Supplies will be available for use during the workshop.

Wednesday, May 14,6 PM until 8 PM
Saturday, May 17, 10 AM until 12 PM


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04/26/2025

Join us for one of two FREE workshops in May. Hosted by the Downingtown Library, you can choose between an evening and a morning class. Registration is required, so visit the links below to sign-up!

Bring an item that needs to be patched or mended, and we’ll get you started! Supplies will be available for use during the workshop.

Wednesday, May 14, 6 PM until 8 PM
https://ccls.libcal.com/event/14423639

Saturday, May 17, 10 AM until 12 PM
https://ccls.libcal.com/event/14423654

03/04/2025

It's , and boy, does the world need mending! Today's theme ... Drop It. In this case, my husband was down on one knee too many times. (What can I say? He's a hard worker ... and wearer.)

It's time to 'mend and tend,' people. Keep up the good work.

01/09/2025

Are you feeling the urge to clean out a closet or two? has some excellent tips on how to repair, donate, and re-sell used clothing. More importantly, consider reducing the amount of clothing you buy this year. This would have the greatest positive impact on our environment.

Figuring out what to get rid of is just the beginning. We tapped experts and researched recycling programs to find reasonable ways to offload your clothes.

11/09/2024

Feel like mending something? I'm at Repair Cafe Downingtown from 10 to 2 today, Saturday, November 9. Stop by the Central Presbyterian Church and bring something to visibly mend!

10/13/2024

I seem to mend a lot of collars. Eventually, they wear out along the crease or become stained beyond rescuing. This thrifted Gap shirt is a favorite, and I've patched it with fabric from an old bathrobe. Always loved that robe pattern, and now it goes on to mend other clothing.

03/22/2024

A big part of the impetus behind The Downingtown Mendery was finding a way to help the community live a more sustainable lifestyle. Sustainability is at the heart of the work featured in this article from Grid Magazine. Moth Snow is the founder of Touch Threads "a textile upcycling brand where secondhand material becomes the canvas for one-of-a-kind wearable artworks." Check out their work!

When Moth Snow was in college, they would spend afternoons scouring thrift stores for discarded sartorial gems. Perusing the racks, they’d perform a kind of tactile divination, feeling the hem of a sweater or collar of a blouse, then guessing its fiber content. Was it cotton? Wool? A polyester ble...

01/13/2024

Today's mend: a hole in the toe of my much beloved boiled wool shoes is getting a patch of .... boiled wool! The sewing is challenging due to the thickness of the shoe, but well worth it. I've had these for well over a decade.