Also! If you'd like some help fixing your clothes, @mendingbloc.bsky.social has a weekly Masked Craft Night on Mondays in Lents where you can access a sewing machine and get advice from more experienced crafters.

I see a lot of textiles dumped around the city, so I wrote a zine for @mendingbloc.bsky.social on how to rescue clothes and sheets/blankets from the trash and bring them back into community use. mendingbloc.carrd.co#stuff

We’ll be tabling here with mending kits, zines, and supplies!!

Come join us at Peninsula Park on Saturday afternoon, probably our last park meetup of the year (depending on the weather in late October!). We have lots of free fabric, thread, and other sewing supplies so you can get stocked up for your winter sewing plans!

We’re here till 2!

Ack we forgot to post this earlier, sorry!! Starting NOW at Mt Scott Park, mending supplies and also today we have a ton of free craft books as well!!

Printed approximately 785 patches this week for all the events we have coming up! Come see us to pick out your favorite!

We’ll be here tomorrow!

We’re here right now! We have mending kits, cooling scarf kits, patches, zines, and a big bin of free fabric!!

Peninsula Park is busy today! You'll find us by the playground, tables closest to the bathrooms

Today!

We’ll be here tomorrow with mending kits, cooling scarf kits, and patches!!

We’ll be here tomorrow with mending kits, cooling scarf kits, and patches!!

My late friend had incredible taste and I will be bringing some of her clothing to the clothing closet @mendingbloc.bsky.social is helping with July 17. (Collection day is today.)

We’ll be hanging out at Peninsula Park on Sunday afternoon! Stop by, mend with us, and grab some supplies. We’ll have sewing supplies and cooling scarf kits! Totally feel free to just swing by to get stuff, we know there’s lots going on this weekend!

We’re still meeting on Mondays in Lents! Here is more detail pictured about where we meet since it can be a little hard to find—you’ll go through that little gate to get to the glass door entrance. The community room and bathroom are ADA accessible. There’s air conditioning! 🪡🧶✂️

Tomorrow!!

We’ll be at Rad Pride on Saturday and we printed a bunch of new patches to give out, including 9 brand new designs! See you at Wilshire Park!

We know there’s A LOT going on right now, but if you’re able to come out for a bit on Sunday afternoon you can mend with us for a crafty break or just pick up supplies to take home! We’ll have cooling scarf making supplies, tons of donated fabric, and other sewing supplies—please take some!! 🪡🧵

Oh hey if you’re in Gresham and want some mending kits, sewing supplies, or cooling scarf kits, we’ll be at the Rooted in Resilience resource fair! Gresham Main City Park (Main Field Area), June 8, 1–4pm

Sooo many nice kids clothes are being mended!! If you have or know little kids come by Marie Equi before 5:30 to pick some out. We really want these to get out to tiny folks and get worn! Some are sized for bigger kids, there’s a wide variety

Tomorrow!! We got snacks! Come for as much or little time as you want to, we’d love to see you!

Come mend with us next Saturday! We have an enormous pile of cute kids clothes that need to be fixed up and also need homes, so you can come just to mend, just to take some clothes home, or to do both—whatever will get these nice items back in functioning condition and worn by kids in our community!

We’ll be mending at Craft Emporium on Sunday for their Second Sunday School! Sign up on their website, spots are limited — craftemporiumpdx.com/products/may...

SE PDX friends, Lents neighborhood masked craft nights are now EVERY MONDAY! 6-8pm at Woody Guthrie Place—5800 SE 91st Ave. Masks will be required and provided. Some craft supplies will be available but feel free to bring any kind of craft project you want to work on! Hope to see you there!

We’ll be tabling at Reed College on Thursday with Sunrise Reed! May 8th, 4:30-6 in the gcc quad (3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, quad outside the Gray Campus Center at Reed College)

This is tomorrow! Come mend with us! Also:

Did you know that April 26 is Mend in Public Day?! When we learned that we thought it would be the perfect day for our first mend together in the park day of the year! We’ll have lots of sewing supplies that you can use and take with you, and we’ll be there to help you with your mending projects.

Oh hi we’re here now! If you’re in Portland and need any sewing/mending stuff, let us know! If you’re anywhere and want to see/print/distribute our zines, they are here: mendingbloc.carrd.co#stuff

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