Thriftstore to Forevermore

$310.00

Saturday January 17 & Sunday January 18, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructors: BR Goldstein & Diana Fox-Revett

Materials Fee: $25 (paid directly to Instructors)
Students: 10

Join us for a weekend of renewal, let’s go to the thrift store and get that unique wardrobe piece that’s almost there. Or, find those things hiding in the back of your drawer: the tired-and-worn, the faves-gone-faded, the used-to-fit, the fits-kinda-weird.

This workshop starts with a field trip to the thrift store, where you will learn to identify natural fibres. Then we will head to the studio to use dyes or indigo to refresh colours or brighten old and faded ones. Use hand sewing to make clever alterations, embroidery, and embellishments to transform those items that were headed for the waste stream and turn them back into regulars in your wardrobe.

Saturday January 17 & Sunday January 18, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructors: BR Goldstein & Diana Fox-Revett

Materials Fee: $25 (paid directly to Instructors)
Students: 10

Join us for a weekend of renewal, let’s go to the thrift store and get that unique wardrobe piece that’s almost there. Or, find those things hiding in the back of your drawer: the tired-and-worn, the faves-gone-faded, the used-to-fit, the fits-kinda-weird.

This workshop starts with a field trip to the thrift store, where you will learn to identify natural fibres. Then we will head to the studio to use dyes or indigo to refresh colours or brighten old and faded ones. Use hand sewing to make clever alterations, embroidery, and embellishments to transform those items that were headed for the waste stream and turn them back into regulars in your wardrobe.

BR Goldstein is a Canadian Artist who is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto Canada, she received an MFA from Parsons the New School, in New York City. Primarily a painter and textile artist, Goldstein has worked across many media and exhibited across Canada, and the US. She spent the past 7 years living in North Carolina immersed in its strong tradition of textile manufacturing and textile art.

Diana Fox-Revett is a textile artist and educator, she’s been sewing and embroidering since she could hold a needle. She has worked as a wallpaper designer, maker of mended, repaired and re-imagined clothing. She is also a practicing artist who creates hand-sew free-form quilts using natural dyes and printed and embroidered objects. She has taught at Seneca College and instructs workshops at locations around the city.