On the first Saturday of every month, a quiet classroom inside the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising transforms into a lively creative space. Thread, fabric scraps and sewing needles scatter across tables as Colorado State University students gather for the Make & Mend workshop: a free, hands-on event where sustainability meets skill building.
Led by Sarah Lillis, the education programs coordinator at the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising, the workshops offer a hands-on, creative response to the fast fashion issue at CSU, teaching students to repair clothing through embroidery, sewing and patching.
“The workshop is kind of like an open studio space,” Lillis said. “What people need mended kind of dictates what they learn, which can be anything from threading a needle and sewing a tear.”…