Timetable of the day

09:30     A warm welcome to @:Toolerstone with refreshments

10:00     Introduction to mending techniques

11:15     Coffee time as you stitch

13:00     Delicious homemade lunch will be served

14:00     Putting the finishing touches to your work.

15:00     Refreshments with be served

16.15     Workshop ends but, you can mend at home to your hearts content!

What is included?

Free onsite car parking

All materials & tools

Aprons are provided for the day if required

Refreshments & a delicious lunch

A mending kit to take home (wooden hoop, fabric, threads and a needle)

What do I need to bring?

You can bring your own sewing equipment if you wish.

An item that requires mending if you would like to

Experience level

We welcome all levels of experience from beginners to the enthusiastic professional!

With a background in the textile industry, specifically as an embroidery designer in Macclesfield and the Midlands, and later 15 years as an Art and Design lecturer Rachel is now a self-employed textile artist. Driven by an absolute love of painting and textiles she enjoys creating detailed decorative multimedia textile outcomes that utilise illustration, free machine embroidery and 3D elements. Rachel uses sketchbooks as well as her pieces to tell stories or send messages to the viewer.

Rachel has been involved in a number of community art projects and art exhibitions in Cheshire and is a member of the ReMix Art and Design Group. She has exhibited in Chester Cathedral for the Refresh Project ‘A stitch in Time’ and the Grosvenor Museum exhibition ‘Another Level ‘from 2022 until Spring 2023, and will be exhibiting her textiles  in the ‘Stitch by Stitch’ exhibition in Shrewsbury in 2023. Rachel is currently artist in residence for Tarporley.