Sustainable mend and maintain-along ♻️

It’s a bit fiddly, but it depends on how much of the fabric is missing and on how the yarn behaves. I’m basically threading/sewing a new length of yarn the same way the old yarn went before breaking. It helps to practice duplicate stitchimg before something breaks.

I made a tutorial:

For the sock with the pink mend I used the same general idea as my second example. I used smooth cotton yarn to have something that could hold the stitches while I remade them. If you don’t pay attention to what way the yarn should go through the loops the new ”stitches” will be twisted.

I had some issues but decided to just go over once more and duplicate stitch over the wonky ones. Hopefully it will not be too wonky to walk on.

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