Second Life: Intro to Flash Embroidery
Friday, October 30, 2026
1-4 PM
FREE
This workshop was designed for 2SLGBTQI+ community members and is generously sponsored by Community One Foundation.
Embellish clothing and accessories in 30 minutes or less with flash embroidery!
Learn basic hand embroidery techniques you can put into practice immediately to personalize yours and your friends stuff. Embroidery you can do on the go: in a park, in a waiting room, or during that zoom meeting that could have been an email.
Participants will learn how to work with embroidery thread, how to start and finish embroidery, how to tension embroidery, and basic stitches that can be applied to a ton of different designs.
Participants may also choose to bring their own clothing or accessories to embroider on during the workshop.
All materials will be supplied, however you may bring any clothing or accessory that you wish to embroider.
For any accessibility needs, please contact Isabelle Sain (isain@textilemuseum.ca)
This workshop offers ASL interpretation with thanks to the Canadian Culture Society of the Deaf. Please note that this interpretation is part of a placement program, providing training and support for emerging interpreters.
About Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops
Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops is a series of free; sustainability focused workshops developed with the Textile Museum of Canada and contemporary local artists. The series converges ecological thinking with art-making opportunities for our community. Starting in January 2026, each month, the Museum will bring in an artist who confronts the climate crisis by rethinking materials and reimagining textile processes, decolonial methodologies, and sustainable craft traditions. Together, artist and participants will reform reused materials to create new works of art through a variety of techniques. These textile-focused artistic mediums will include weaving, embroidery, crocheting, quilting, natural dyeing, felting, upcycled fashion, or mixed-media fibre practices.
Facilitator Bio:
Kaia M. Arrow (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and advocate. Kaia uses her art to process and portray her experiences as a neurodivergent, sick & disabled, queer, Filipina settler. She applies structural understandings of power with an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist approach to her life and art. Kaia is privileged to be a part-time wheelchair user and full-time radical. She dreams of supportive communities for all, weaving together old ways of being. Kaia creates in crip time from Tkaronto (colonially known as Toronto). She carries lineage from fierce and tender ancestors from the Philippines.
The Crip Art Collective is a working group of Disabled, Mad, and chronically ill QTBIPOC artists based out of Tkaronto, colonially known as Toronto. Our collective mixes mediums, skills, approaches, and abilities to express our unique perspectives. They make everything from multi-meter fabric sculptures, pocket size zines, and lots in between. Follow @CripArtCollective for more.
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