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In this episode, Kate answers a few personal questions developed by Helene about Kate's style and fashion. In last week's episode she discussed #mendmarch and of course, mending features in her thinking and fashion choices.

Many thanks to Helene for the success of this discussion with Kate Sekules.

Anyone can mend.

Mend don't spend.

Kate Sekules aka Visiblemend runs the popular mending challenge #mendmarch. 2022 is the 5 year anniversary of this challenge on Instagram. 

In this podcast Kate answers questions from previous mending podcast guests Katrine, Selina, Wendy, Tricia and Uli.

Kate Ward shares her research to show how mending helps save our resources. Kate has also shared this research on her blog so you can do additional reading about how textile manufacturing techniques pollute our planet.

By extending the life of your clothes by months or by years, lessens your carbon foot print. What you pay for clothes impacts the working conditions of factory workers. The less you pay for ready to wear goods, the less factory workers are paid and their working conditions remain poor.

#mendmarch run by Kate Sekules is a great way to take up visible mending one step at a time.

Kate Sekules is the author of Mend! a Refashioners Manual and Manifesto. She's also the force behind #mendmarch each year.

Kate has done so much in her life including being in a rock band and supported Joy Division; boxed professionally, started the Refashioner and now is studying her phd in mending.

She has taken refashioning and made it engaging and fun. You'll get addicted to visible mending. The garment is already broken so visible mending will bring out your artistic self. No skills required. Newbies to mending will enjoy giving their clothes another life and using Kate's knowledge, more people can mend and not add to landfill.

MendMarch starts in a few days time. Katrine of Mending Mayhem is back to talk about all the mending options she uses when she takes part in this challenge each year.

Kate Sekules hosts this month long challenge that anyone can hop into or just watch what happens. Kate will be on the next Sewing save and Mending podcast so keep an eye out for her podcast debut.

Tricia is also mentioned as she was a recent Mending Mayhem guest and you'll always see Tricia featured on Sewover50 as a wonderful contributor to the sewing community.

Everyone in Katrine's family can mend and enjoys the mending they do. Make sure you listen to all the mending options Katrine undertakes each year for MendMarch.