Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery. Photo Credit: Leigh Urbaniak With my favorite pair of tattered Levi’s jeans in hand, I walk into the Tacoma Public Library to attend the free Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery, a local nonprofit organization that helps people use donated materials to make inventive crafts and practical fixes on already-owned items. Some might describe my raggedy jeans as worthless, but I see them as well-loved. Holes cover nearly every surface of my pants, and they really need patching up.    The volunteers who...

Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery. Photo Credit: Leigh Urbaniak With my favorite pair of tattered Levi’s jeans in hand, I walk into the Tacoma Public Library to attend the free Visible Mending workshop hosted by the Remakery, a local nonprofit organization that helps people use donated materials to make inventive crafts and practical fixes on already-owned items. Some might describe my raggedy jeans as worthless, but I see them as well-loved. Holes cover nearly every surface of my pants, and they really need patching up.    The volunteers who...