workshops & events
I have currently no workshops planned.
exhibitions
United Fashion Festival, 1 April – 6 June 2021, Brussels, Belgium. I’m part of the United Fashion Festival taking place in Brussels, Belgium. More information available here.
Brighton Repair Café
I volunteer at the Brighton Repair Café. We meet every last Saturday of the month and help you repair your stuff, ranging from garment repairs to small electrical goods, bicycles, and more. To find up-to-date information about venue and date of the next Repair Café, please check their facebook page here.
Have you ever considered online classes? I’d love to attend a workshop where you present your Visible Mending Programme, but it’s not likely I’ll be in the UK in the next two years. I’d attend online if you held a video chat session. Or I’d buy your course if you presented one on Craftsy.com or the like …
any classes planned after May? London area, Brighton would also be ok.. or anywhere that is cheaply reachable from central London – student budget 🙂 cheers
Just LOVE your darning ….. is it possible to get notification of your classes?
At the moment the easiest way to stay up-to-date with my classes is by liking my tomofholland facebook page.
I have been searching for books on darning. Are you able to suggest any?
Sure! Here’s a blog post I wrote about the very subject: https://tomofholland.com/2014/07/23/mending-books/
I have never been interested in knitting, but I love the whole notion of mending and want very very much to learn darning – from socks to worn elbows to ripped scarves to fine Irish linen. I’ve been collecting vintage threads and mending yarns…
Do you take inexperienced fakers who don’t knit?
Thank you for your wonderful work and sharing.
Judith
Thanks for your message Judith. For the darning master class you do not have to know how to knit. For the Big Holes specialist darning class you do need to be able to knit. Hope this helps, Tom
Great initiative!
Hello, my husband is keen to attend one of your workshops – we’re based in London. Do you have any upcoming workshops in the UK please? Thanks
I’m in the process of finalising a workshop in July. Once it’s confirmed I will update the Workshops and Events page, any maybe write a short blog post, so please keep an eye out: hopefully more news soon!
HiTom. Is there a repair Café on Saturday Nov 25th in Brighton?At Preston Barracks, or is that closed for renovation? Would love to come down if indeed repair cafe happening.
Hi Elizabeth, unfortunately the Preston Barracks venue is now closed. We’re finalising plans for a new venue, but it’s not 100% certain yet. We’re planning to start again in January. It’s best to check on the Brighton Repair Café blog for details.
Dear Tom, your work is amazing. I am in need of a “visible mending” workshop. Badly! Any plans to give a workshop in The Netherlands or in Belgium in the near future?
Greetings.
Marcela
Hi Marcela, thanks for your message. I’m afraid I don’t have any plans for a workshop in The Netherlands or Belgium in 2018. Best, Tom
Dear Tom, it looks like I will be in the UK at the end of June 2018. Do you think you will have any workshops during that time? I’d love to take a class with you.
warmly,
jenn
Dear Jenn, thanks for your message. I will not be running any workshops in June. Sorry to disappoint you. Hopefully another time!
Hello,
I wrote you a while ago to ask if you ever travel to the US for workshops. I am located north of San Francisco,California and would be delighted to have you teach a class at Healdsburg SHED. Would you let me know if you might be landing on this continent anytime soon, and would be willing to travel to Healdsburg?
Thank you kindly,
Cindy
Healdsburgshed.com
Hi Cindy, please email me at tomofholland@gmail.com and we can discuss further. Tom
Ditto ‘itwasjudith’ Brighton/London class decorative darning would be terrific?
Hi Tom,
I am a fan of your blog. I hand and machine knit and have plenty of knits to mend as well as all my and my husbands jeans for work.
Since you have mentioned using your treadle for sewing, and have an extensive library on repairs, maybe you can answer this question.
Are there any good techniques for applying patches on legs and sleeves using non-free arm machines?
Up until recently, we patched the knees on our work jeans using my mothers Pfaff, which has a free arm. Unfortunately, this machine is now broken, and I am told, probably unfixable.
I now use my Singer Featherweight, and am putting my Singer treadle in working order. I love them, but they don’t have a free arm.
So before I go to the expense of buying a machine just for this one task, any insight you might have would be wonderful
thanks,
Rachel
However much I like my treadle sewing machine, I prefer to do those things by hand.
Hi Tom, I’m looking for someone to teach darning on Sunday 1 March and other dates. My number is 07956 684 942. Rachael
Hi Rachel, can you please drop me a line at tomofholland@gmail.com and we can discuss further? Many thanks, Tom
Hi! I tried to buy your crofter mitten pattern on ravelry but it’s no longer available. Could I buy it from you directly? I love these mittens!
Dear Peggy, I’m afraid that the Crofter Mitten pattern is no longer for sale. Best, Tom