your patches are so neat. I really like this look.
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I love the different colored scrappy patch look!
I’m a little behind, but I did this in January, so I hope it counts! I have no idea how she did it after wearing it only once, but my daughter tore a hole in her shirt, so I used a piece of scrap fabric behind the hole and I just started stitching around it while watching television.
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I think both mends add personality and color to some somber colored clothing!
@Wulf…your mending is as nice as your boro and embroidery stitching! Little pops of color …
@meowari nice save…almost looks like you added a little galaxy to her sweater of hearts!
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Here I am, finally able to post what I’ve had in my phone for awhile!
This is DH’s Cabella hoodie-they are not cheap, but he was going to throw it away because it got some kind of grease stain that wouldn’t come out.
(It’s a bad photo, it’s a dark olive green. And yes, our Xmas decorations are still up.)
This is what I did with my favorite rainbow thread over the grease spots:
I was going to get fancy and try to embroider a heart, but it was too difficult, so I basically just did a # over the stains. I threw it in the wash, and hopefully there are no more stains I missed.
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Nice save! My DH gets coffee stains on just about everything he wears but his white t-shirts are the worse yet the easiest to get out (bleach pen)…He might go for some mending but probably not rainbow… :D…at least on the grey, a little color is not going to hurt! Besides, visible mending is now fashionable!!!
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I had an all-cotton bobbin wound and the sewing machine on, so I finally fixed the bag for microwaving potatoes in, which had developed some holes.
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All the mending in this thread makes me happy! I haven’t touched the mending pile in a while, but I’ve got two clothing items I really want to fix next. I think the main factor standing in my way is that I want to do a good job cause I love the clothes involved… It makes it harder to start!
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I have to research that!
I actually started on my mending pile today, I had to fix my work apron really badly. Shortened it a bit to get fabric for patches, swore a lot because I was running out of good sewing machine needles, and because I chose to just sew on circle patches. The smallest was less than an inch in diameter. I am definitely not good at sewing little circles when I can’t see a line to follow, but I was in a hurry. Things I’ll remember for the other apron: Color on the right side with vanishing marker, less pressure on the foot.
It looks like this now:
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The circles were a good idea, even if they were a pain! I will remember that!
I am making new curtains to fit my husband’s music studio. It is fabric I bought probably ten years ago! I was able to cut out the lining, which is black out lining, out of the old curtains and will use them…but now I am left with what to do with the still good fabric of the curtains…I have cut out three grocery bags–rather large ones from just a single panel…and there are three more panels…
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Hey, I actually tackled one of the two clothes I talked about in my previous post!
It’s an old sweater my aunt gave me. I think she used to wear it when she was a kid and then passed it on to me, but I’m not sure. It still fits, but a shoulder seam has started to give up. I figured I better fix it before it gets worse.
It could probably be done pretty invisibly, but I went for a blue thread to match the print.
Tiny stitches to close and reinforce the seam and a bigger star/flower/blob in the tricky point where the seams met. I used two strands of the embroidery thread.
The sweater is drying since I removed a small stain on one arm while I was at it. I’m excited to be able to use it again!
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What a fabulous rescue! You can tell by the old Mickey that it is an older piece! How nice to have this and be able to wear it once again.
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I like the stitching over the top of the repair! That’s a nice idea to turn it into a focal point rather than hide it.
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Are there tiny holes like that all over the place or are they pretty much concentrated in one area? If it’s on sleeves, could you make the garment into short sleeved? Or maybe remove the sleeves altogether? I don’t know how badly you want to save this. Since the fabric is floral, maybe make some small flower-shaped patches? Once, when one of my daughters got a hole in her dress, I crocheted basically the center portion of a doily and patched it with that. Not sure if you crochet, but a garden of little crocheted flowers might look cute.
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That’s most of it, but that’s the front of the skirt. I think I’m just tossing it in with the knit scraps for now; part of the problem is that she doesn’t want me to change the drape or make things “scratchy.”
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I don’t know if this should go here, so if it needs to be moved, mods, please do:
For anyone that lives on Long Island, NY (I don’t know if it’s all of New York State or not.), a plastic bag ban is going into effect in March. Stores will no longer be allowed to sell plastic bags.
I’m posting this because anyone who is crafty enough to make his/her own bags, might want enough time to make them before the ban goes into effect.
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I reattached the fleece lining to my mitten (and its mate!), since I could no longer ignore the fact that I kept jamming my hand between the layers when I’d try to put them on. I love the care label, because it would never occur to me to try and iron mittens.
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Homemade bags would make great gifts to friends and family! I have made a few of them this year, first for the LGT swap and then some more and it’s really fun and quick to do and a great way to use up scraps. In my country, free plastic bags were banned a few years back, you can still buy them but I’ve noticed that this has already significantly reduced the use of plastic.
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Did anyone see the visible mending article in the March 2020 issue of Better Homes and Gardens? looks like it’s going “mainstream” which is rather fun, in my eyes anyway.
Maybe darning mushrooms will be easier to find “in the wild” now! (I’ve been wanting one for a while…)
I think it fits. Repurposing something into a shopping bag would definitely count.
Funny, once I started mending I just kept going the other day…
The green patch is old and a bit worn and the other darns are new. I am skilled in slicing holes in my socks with my toes apparently… It feels so dumb to throw them away for a tiny hole so I darn my favourites and especially comfy socks if they’re otherwise in good condition.
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