FABSCRAP PHL Workshop: Applique and Hand Embroidery with Santé Johnson

Join Santé Johnson in developing your applique and hand embroidery skills through the creation of a bird patch!

Build up your needle-arts skill by making an applique patch while reusing your favorite fabric scraps. Learn how to make a unique silhouette design wool patch using different embroidery techniques such as beading, sequins, back stitch, running stitch, holding stitch, and chain stitch.

With this workshop, you’ll create a finished bird patch alongside their demonstration.

Please be sure to bring all supplies needed with you! Unless otherwise noted below FABSCRAP will not supply all materials.

Supply list:

Please bring:

• Small sewing scissors
• Fabric: Cotton, tulle, felted wool 5”x5”
• Sewing or embroidery needle and cotton thread
• Cotton embroidery floss
• Sewing pins
• 4-8 inch hoop frame (no bigger than 8”)
• Denim 10”x10” (largest size)
• Glass beads or other small beads, buttons, etc. for accents

FABSCRAP and Santé will provide:

• Hoop frames
• Needles
• Thread

Please consider saving textiles from landfills for your projects! FABSCRAP’s variety of yarn, thread, and scraps are great choices! Make a shopping appointment before the workshop if you’d like to shop for additional items for use in this workshop!

Your ticket price allows us to provide a stipend to our Workshop Instructors for their time in sharing their skills with the

FABSCRAP Community. All tickets are non-refundable. We encourage you to consider donating as another way to support our work as a sustainable resource – FABSCRAP is the only option available for the fashion industry to recycle and redistribute unused material, and the most accessible way for consumers to find saved-from-landfill fabric, trim, leather, and yarn.

FABSCRAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit working to end commercial textile “waste.” Your donations and purchase of workshop materials from our online store support our work and allows us to continue hosting these workshops. Stay in touch with us at fabscrap.org and on Instagram at @fab_scrap.

Instructor Bio: Duwenavue Santé Johnson

Hi, you can call me Santé. Professionally I work as a full-time senior hand embroiderer in Philadelphia specializing in various types of hand embroidery such as silk shading and both sides alike. One project takes me about 5 – 9 months to complete. Most of my work is created with silk or silk blended materials.

Outside of work, my art practice consists of working with textiles, paper, sewing, and various printing and painting techniques. Creating, sharing, and exploring through nature, color and texture is my passion. As a part of TSAphilly (Tiger Strikes Asteroid), collectively I curate, install, and show here and abroad. My work was recently featured at Shau Fenster (“Mutable Time”) and National Museum (“Obsolete”) in Berlin, Germany (March-April 2022) and La chapelle Sainte- Lucie, Mirande , France (Same Sky- Meme Ciel) along with The Jones Institute (“Community Takeover- Same Sky”) in San Francisco, California (July- Aug 2021)

Through lectures, support, exhibitions, and promotion I work and donate my time to SFSNAD (San Francisco School of Needlework and Design) helping to encourage the study, preservation, and Community engagement through hand embroidery and the slow craft movement.

My primary goals related to having a life as an artist are to focus on connecting with others, respecting and spending time in nature, learning, having fun, and doing my best.

Follow Santé on Instagram @sante_artxstitch.art, @artxstitch_embroidery, @tsaphilly, and @sfsnad. Visit their website to see their collection of work.

THESE DIRECTIONS ARE IMPORTANT:

The FABSCRAP warehouse is located in Unit 601 within BOK, which is accessible by foot, bike/scooter, car, subway and bus.

SUBWAY: Broad Street Line to Snyder Station

BUS: 45, 47, 47M, 79 Lines

BIKE: Approach BOK’s Pedestrian Entrance on 821 Dudley Street, between 8th and 9th Street. Free outdoor bike parking is available next to the entrance on 9th Street. BOK is an Indego bike share location with a kiosk located on the corner of 8th and Mifflin Street.

DRIVING:

Traveling I-95S, take Exit 20 for Columbus Boulevard towards Washington Avenue. Keep right at the fork, following signs for Snyder Avenue/ Oregon Avenue. Turn right onto South Christopher Columbus Boulevard/ Columbus Boulevard. Turn right onto Tasker Street. Turn left onto East Moyamensing Avenue. Turn right onto McKean Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-95N, take Exit 17 to merge onto PA-611N/ South Broad Street towards Pattison Avenue. Turn right onto East Snyder Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76E, take Exit 350 to merge onto Packer Avenue. Turn right onto South 10th Street. Turn right onto West Oregon Avenue. Turn left onto South 9th Street.

Traveling I-76W, take Exit 350 for 7th Street towards Packer Avenue. Keep left at the fork to continue towards South 7th Street. Turn left onto South 7th Street. Turn left onto West Shunk Street. Turn right onto South 9th Street.

How to locate FABSCRAP within BOK:

At the bottom of this page, and in your confirmation email, is a QR code, which works as a virtual key at the 9th Street entrance of Bok.

To the right of the door is a digital screen where you can scan this code.

1) Click the “Virtual Key” button on the home screen.

2) Hold the QR Code in front of the camera, located on the left side of the screen

When you hear a buzz/ding, the door unlocks so you can enter. The west elevator to our space on the 6th floor will be in the first hallway on your right when you enter through the 9th Street doors. The Dudley Street entrance of BOK is open to the public and does not require a key code. If you enter at Dudley, continue down the hallway and up the ramp until you reach the welcome desk. Take a left at the desk and another left right before the double doors. The west elevator is just around that corner- painted yellow and blue. We are on floor 6! Click 6 and eagerly await your arrival at our warehouse!

***(For ramp access, please use the ADA entrance on Mifflin St. The attendant at the Ambassador Desk will guide you to the West Elevator)

Need assistance? Contact us at (445)-300-8980