slow stitch journals - feb 28

from $70.00
Sliding Scale Tier:

led by Malavika Rao

In this workshop, participants will create a handmade slow stitch journal, learning foundational hand-sewing techniques while practicing intuitive patchwork and fabric collage. We’ll bind the journals together in class and design personalized fabric covers, creating tactile objects meant to be returned to, added onto, and lived with over time.

Slow stitching is a fiber art practice grounded in attention, repetition, and radical slowness. In this session, we’ll emphasize process over perfection, approaching fiber as a contemplative, intuitive material rather than a means toward a polished end result. The journals we create can function as memory books, processing spaces, or sites for ongoing stitching, reflection, and experimentation.

All materials will be provided, including fabric scraps and sewing notions. Participants are welcome to bring their own scraps to incorporate into their journals. Everyone will leave the workshop with a bound journal to continue filling and stitching into over time. No prior sewing experience is necessary — this workshop is beginner-friendly and open to all.

Workshop Details:

  • Date: February 28th

  • Time: 1pm - 4pm

  • Location: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

  • Duration: 3 hours

  • Skill level: No sewing experience required - we'll teach you everything!

led by Malavika Rao

In this workshop, participants will create a handmade slow stitch journal, learning foundational hand-sewing techniques while practicing intuitive patchwork and fabric collage. We’ll bind the journals together in class and design personalized fabric covers, creating tactile objects meant to be returned to, added onto, and lived with over time.

Slow stitching is a fiber art practice grounded in attention, repetition, and radical slowness. In this session, we’ll emphasize process over perfection, approaching fiber as a contemplative, intuitive material rather than a means toward a polished end result. The journals we create can function as memory books, processing spaces, or sites for ongoing stitching, reflection, and experimentation.

All materials will be provided, including fabric scraps and sewing notions. Participants are welcome to bring their own scraps to incorporate into their journals. Everyone will leave the workshop with a bound journal to continue filling and stitching into over time. No prior sewing experience is necessary — this workshop is beginner-friendly and open to all.

Workshop Details:

  • Date: February 28th

  • Time: 1pm - 4pm

  • Location: 850 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles

  • Duration: 3 hours

  • Skill level: No sewing experience required - we'll teach you everything!

  • Malavika Rao is a multidisciplinary artist and educator primarily working in painting, fiber, and installation. malavika's practice recontextualizes practices of homemaking as methods of worldmaking, using craft to heal generational trauma and tend to the fragile relationship between care and survival. In their installations, malavika employs various crafting practices as modes of speculative world-building—creating spaces to interrogate inherited structures of care and propose alternative relational frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective sustenance.

    • Your own unique soft sculpture keychain or bag charm (or two, if you're on a roll!)

    • New hand-sewing skills you can use for future projects

    • A tiny sculptural friend to carry with you

  • What's included:

    • All fabric scraps, felt, stuffing, and sewing supplies

    • Needles, thread, and notions

    • Individual guidance and sewing instruction

    • Limited sliding scale tickets available at each tier; please select the tier corresponding to your ability to pay. Selecting higher tiers supports house mouse and those unable to afford the full cost of the workshop.

    • Tickets are transferable but non-refundable

    • Questions? Email us at squeak@housemouse.la

    • Purchasing this as a gift? Enter recipient's name and email at checkout, and we'll add them to our roster

    • Need accommodations? Let us know and we'll make it work!