Mending Matters

Join the Slow Fashion movement and make mending your jeans and other garments an artful, joyful, and empowering act of sustainability and renewal, for both you and your favorite clothes.

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques:

• Exterior patches
• Interior patches
• Slow stitches
• Darning and weaving

In addition, this full-color book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.

Katrina is an artist and writer working across disciplines to explore environmental and social issues through craft techniques. Her work has appeared in publications like the New York Times, Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Mother Earth Living, Selvedge Magazine, Peppermint magazine, Sewing Magazine, Sunset magazine, Sweet Paul Magazine, Taproot magazine, and more. She teaches online and in-person, including small classes in her converted barn studio. She offers small batch, sustainable products in her online shop.

We ship within Canada and the USA through Canada Post or UPS.

Shipping Domestically: Shipping costs are flat rate based on your total purchase price before tax. Shipping is free on orders over $150 CAD. Shipping is a flat rate of $12 CAD on purchases of $149.99 CAD or less. Express shipping rates are available on some packages. 

Shipping to USA: Shipping costs are flat rate based on your total purchase price before tax. Shipping is free on orders over $225 CAD. Shipping is a flat rate of $25 CAD on purchases of $224.99 CAD or less. Express shipping rates are available on some packages. 

For local sewers - Curb-side pick-up is free and is an available option at checkout. Customers will receive an email within 48 hours notifying them that their package is ready for pick-up. Customers must pick-up their package during normal store hours, bring order confirmation for proof of purchase. 

For returns please see our return policy. 

At this point in time we are not shipping to international addresses, but we hope to offer that in the near future.