Can’t remember if I posted here or in the “what are you working on today” thread but JIC… I have a towel I love but it was losing its binding. I grabbed some of the bias tape I made for my Sorbetto top and used it to fix the worst parts of the towel.
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Keep that towel chugging alone! Also, what a fun pop of color!
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All our decore is grey and black but it is nice to have some bright colors included here and there!
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I absolutely get that.
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Woohoo! Thanks to Annchen’s darn tutorial, I just finished my first sock-darning, to give my favorite old store-bought socks some more life!
Not a very neat job, of course, being my first go, but I love the color combo and I haven’t found another pair of socks just like this anywhere. They’re the perfect dress-paired-with-clunky-boots socks. I used embroidery floss but I also have some sewing thread in the same color, so I may reinforce the toe seam with it. Though it’s already more thread than sock at this point. 
Thank you for the inspiration! I felt so empowered when I finished sock #1 that I went out and split firewood for the first time on the same day.
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Wohoo! Awesome first (and second) darned sock!
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OMG girl, you must really love those socks! They are more darn than original at this point, lol.
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Hey! I found you guys (only a month in)! I had these wool dryer balls that were in sad need of repair! I received them in a C*ster swap oh… 10+ years ago. Frugal Living swap, maybe? Anyways, yesterday I crocheted them new wool covers!
Don’t they look so handsome in their little wool jackets? Already starting to felt up after one wash cycle!
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That’s my plan with my sad unraveling balls too! Looks great!
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Ooh, that is an excellent idea!
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They do! So swank!
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I just updated/mended a “gimme” sweater from my last job. We had tons of awesome swag but I’m not too keen on advertising for the company…
I first tried to pick out the machine embroidery logo which I accidentally turned into holes.
Oops…
So I crocheted some circles and sewed them on. Its black on black so hard to see, so i adjusted the exposure on the photos to make them easier to see.
ETA a shot of it on…
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Excellent “save”! It’s always just a bit of a bummer when a cool piece is company-branded, isn’t it?
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Fixed Rob’s old/my new work bag!
Sewed a hanging loop on this wrap/robe
Mended a hole in a sweater elbow, that required some crochet hooking to reknit & a few stitches with a bit of yellow wool.
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YES! it sucks. I have tons of stuff from when I worked at Disney that is not related directly to my job so I was able to keep using those.
I wish more companies would think about re-usability instead of glaring logos.
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I have a friend who used to work for a BIG microchip company, ahem, (in fact, I know a lot of people who have worked there, because they have a big presence in my hometown) and they had a rule that employees were not allowed to donate swag to Goodwill or wherever. They had big bins in their big building for returning unwanted or worn out stuff. Presumably they didn’t want poor people wearing their logo. SO GROSS. And they acted like they were doing their employees such a big favor to give them a branded fleece or water bottle. Often they were good quality, but kind of ruined by the logo.
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Oh that sucks! I always get around the water bottle thing with stickers. Vendor i didn’t like gave us nice Yeti coffee mugs… I put a yeti sticker over their logo 
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Yeah, she just donated hers. How will they even know? I sewed a patch bought from a maker over an embroidered logo for TheMisterT and have had my eye out for another. Of course, this former employer makes theirs HUGE. At least this one is navy thread on a navy sweatshirt. He got a nice Hydroflask with the logo - etched into the metal! The sticker I made does a poor job. Sigh.
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Somehow my kids think shirts branded with my work logo are cool. I don’t get it. I pick names off my clothes too, company logos, brand names, I cut off tags etc. I’ve had to do a few repairs, lol. Your crochet circle solution is cute.
Fixed more holes. I like this way of highlighting rather than covering up.
Linen is not good for bedding. This duvet cover isn’t even a year old! Sigh. I’ll salvage what I can.
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Oh! Good to know. Was looking at a linen duvet cover to replace the super soft cotton one we have that is shredding.
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