Circular Campus to Community Making Workshop: Patch Cutting and Stash Swap for Garment Mending

Circular Campus to Community Making Workshop: Patch Cutting and Stash Swap for Garment Mending

  • 02 Jul 2026
  • 05:00pm - 07:00pm
  • FREE
  • Brunswick
  • Building 515, Level 3, Room 6 RMIT Brunswick Campus, 25 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056
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Are you a mender who would like to build your stash of textile patches and yarns?

Take part in a 2-hour workshop for community repair volunteers and mending enthusiasts of all skill levels. 

Textiles from student remnants, industry swatches and post-consumer textiles will be provided to cut and press for patching as well as weaving room yarn offcuts to roll onto cards for darning. 

Discussion will centre on knowledge exchange regarding mending tools, materials, and hacks with everyone invited to share and learn. Interested local community repair volunteers unable to attend are invited to get in touch in advance of the workshop so an 'order' can be prepared to assist your community work. 

We will provide: Fabrics, yarn, tools from RMIT's Repair Cafe kit. 

Please bring with you: Your favourite mending tools and materials to share or surplus to pass on. 

This activity is part of the RMIT x MCC Circular Campus to Community Project.

RMIT and Merri-Bek City Council (MCC) have a shared vision to build meaningful connections out into industry, community, and academia to support social, economic and environmental opportunities. 

The Circular Campus to Community Project is delivering a series of collaborative and connected circularity-themed programming. Activities will be centred around five streams: Regenerate, Repair, Recycle, Redesign, Rethink – with a focus on textiles creation, repair, and care, through knowledge and skill sharing. 

To find out more visit: RMIT PlaceLab website.

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