When wearing the cosy and newly mended fingerless mittens I discovered a hole in the other one. Mended it. Discovered a second hole while weaving the ends in. Mended it.
Guess what? Found a third one 
I ran out of my pre cut yarn after the third mend, so when I found a fourth one I saved it for today. The mends are getting prettier and prettier, so there’s that!
That is exactly how the beauty of sashiko started…all those mends turned out so pretty together. I sometimes wanted to make holes on purpose in my jeans just so I could mend them! lol
You need to show off your mends when you are done!
Agreed!
They’re not very visible:
There are two in the palm of the hand, and two on the right edge. I managed to sew them closed remaking the stitches as I went. The first one was a bit trickier since more fabric was missing. These were fairly easy in comparison.
Maybe I can face the chicken top soon… It’s been in the mending pile for a while. There are two holes in one of the sleeves. The problem with thin, comfy fabric…
My sweater challenge:
I haven’t revisited the sweater yet, but I’m trying out a new “intention” with my overfull mending pile. Having to move it for Thanksgiving stirred up more than just dust bunnies. I want to get my act together better over here, so for December (but starting yesterday for good measure) I am taking the item on top of the pile daily and processing it that day. Either mend it or move it out. No more dithering.
Yesterday I stitched up a knit hat for my husband and today is to be a torn throw pillow I rather like.
Hopefully by January 1 my pile will be no more. We’ll see.
November 30- warm up mend: hat
December 1: pillow
Day 28-30: nothing of note
Day 31: Happy New Year!
Total mends: 13
I like your mending pile challenge @AntBee I usually don’t do well with keeping up ”one thing a day” type challenges, but a couple days here and there of mending or getting rid of is better than none at all.
Oh oh, perfect, there is a christmas decoration my grandmother made that I have been meaning to clean & repair! Anyone have a lead on truly vintage Christmas sew-on sequins?
Thanks! That’s my thinking, too. December is such a busy month, there will likely be days where I dont get one done, but I figured if it was a little game for me to try then at least more days than not would see some mending happen and that is way more than was happening before- so a win either way!
I hear ya on the mending pile. Mine is staring at me from the dining room (not used for dining 
) table as I type. I get held up on my completion of it by the ones that require more than some quick stitching. I think, “ugh I don’t have time for this today”, and then put it back on the pile.
So far I have mended 8 things from the pile and “processed” another by moving it to the laundry first. 
This daily challenge is definitely helping me to just get it done.
You are so inspiring! I have zero comfy pants to change into when I get home, all the swants I made are holey. The mending pile is right beside the bed, I just ignore that sucker every day! I gotta fix some stuff, my laziness is keeping my legs from comfy after-work relaxation. The injustice of the thing, ugh.
Where are the holes, can you mend them while wearing them? lol
I double dog dare ya!
Literally everywhere. Yoga’s been combined with everything else, why not sewing? Lol
Haha! I was hoping one had just like a knee or something. Figured you’d at least have one then.
Very inspiring!
I let the mending pile sap so much energy from me with feeling twinges of guilt for not repairing them! Most of the mends are simple…
My game will be…mend a thing, start a new project. That would motivate me…
I shortened the sleeves of many of my PJ tops so now I need to take in the waists of the bottoms or at least put in a drawstring or tighter elastic. I’ll start there and aim to get three pairs done by the weekend!
The little tree skirt for the Irreverent Tree has had failing fasteners since shortly after I cobbled them together! That gold elastic was a PITA!
Then just this week I received a suprise box of notions from my cousin that came with these fancy hook and eyes which I immediately put to use mending the skirt. WOOT!
Perfect! Huzzah surprise notions!
How’s the malasana mending pose going? 
