Make Your Sweaters into Friends with Ýrúrarí's Cheeky Mending Workshop

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Join us for a virtual workshop with Ýrúrarí and learn how to give your sweaters a cheeky makeover using needle-felt mending techniques.

<h3>Workshop: Make Your Sweaters into Friends with Ýrúrarí's Cheeky Needle-Felt Mending</h3> We're thrilled to welcome artist Ýr Jóhannsdóttir, better known as <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/yr-johannsdottir/" title="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/yr-johannsdottir/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ýrúrarí</a>, for our first Colossal Workshop of 2024. During this one-hour session, Ýrúrarí will offer insight into her process and teach the needle-felting technique she often uses in her creative mending projects that transform sweaters into friends. The techniques are suitable for complete beginners, just grab a needle and some wool and join in. Required materials:<ul><li>150 grams of raw wool in colors of your choice. We recommend black, white, and a color.</li><li>A sponge or foam to be used as a surface, at least 5 centimeters thick.</li><li>One to three needle-felting needles.</li><li>A piece of clothing or textile you want to personalize or mend, preferably a knitted fabric. Tightly woven textiles can be hard to work with using this technique, but you can always give a piece a try.</li></ul> You'll receive an email with the Zoom link before the workshop. All Colossal Workshops are recorded, so if you can't make it day of, no worries. We'll send out the video to everyone afterward.<a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/members/" title="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/members/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Colossal Members</a> receive $5 off. Find the discount code on the membership dashboard. About ÝrúraríÝr Jóhannsdóttir is a textile designer from Iceland, based in Berlin and Reykjavík, working under the name Ýrúrarí. Through her work, she combines humour and the everyday in woolen wearable pieces, playing with the thin line between costumes and casual wear. For the past years, the importance of sustainability has impacted Ýrúrarí’s work, leading to a practice where damaged second-hand sweaters gain a new unique look with carefully handmade decorations and mending. In 2020, Ýrúrarí’s first line of upcycled sweaters, Sweater Sauce, got nominated for the Icelandic design awards. The Sweater Sauce project evolved into creative visible mending workshops where people can personalize and play with approachable mending techniques on their knits. The workshops have since taken place all over Europe.

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Make Your Sweaters into Friends with Ýrúrarí's Cheeky Mending Workshop

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