Darning with Yasemin “Yaya” Isaacs
Wed, May 20
|The Shiny Shop
✨ Emerging Guest Artist: Yasemin “Yaya” Isaacs 🕑 Public Hours: 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM 🪡 Guest Artist Hours: 3:30PM - 5:30 PM 🪩 Drop-In Style. Come by anytime during public hours!
Time & Location
May 20, 2026, 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Shiny Shop, 114 Western Ave, Boston, MA 02134, USA
About the event
Join emerging fiber artist Yasemin “Yaya” Isaacs for an approachable and community-centered exploration into the art of visible mending. Through simple darning techniques, participants are invited to repair, reinforce, and reimagine well-loved garments while learning how care, sustainability, and storytelling can exist through stitch.
Guests are encouraged to bring clothing or textiles in need of a little extra love; socks, sweaters, denim, tote bags, worn elbows, tiny holes, or treasured fabrics all welcome. Together, we’ll explore how repair can become both a practical skill and a creative act of preservation and self-expression.
This activation embraces slow making, sustainability, and the beauty of extending the life of objects that move through our everyday worlds.
✨ Materials include:
• Embroidery floss & yarn
• Darning needles