That is a good habit to have! I look over my holiday decor before putting it away to see if anything needs repaired!
My Halloween snake wreath needs a quick paint refresh, but it was too cold to go outside to do it. I’ll have to put it on the list for next year before I hang it again.
Sounds like you will have your treasured decorations for many more seasons!
I hope I do make it a habit! This year, I have gotten nearly all the mail-away gifts out already - one more going today and one box waiting for a few things to arrive, but everything else wrapped and waiting in a shipping box… SO I feel like I have the time to do repairs at the beginning of the season. At the end, I think I just want to be done, so put things away broken. But this year, I have also had the wherewithal to actually get rid of decorations I just don’t use (anymore). I plan to take a box to the women’s shelter thrift store this week, when they will still want holiday decorations.
We love linen sheets. We even bought a set for camping! But my restless feet wear a big thin area and ultimately a big hole. I patch it and then wear out the patch. Time for new sheets.
The rest of the set is still in good shape. I do get nice large top sheet size pieces of linen for my stash. But new linen sheets are expensive.
We try to rotate the sheet, but somehow we never get it rotated often enough.
So I made a protective pad for my feet. I used leftover linen from the last sheets, and pre-quilted offcuts from a fabric donation and quilted it up. I gave it a good snooze test last night. I think it will save the new set some wear around my busy feet. Until the new pad wears out!
And yes, that is Felix, annoyed that I almost buried him, all for a silly picture.
That’s brilliant. I hope it saves your sheets.
A couple years ago I had the forethought to place the items I wanted to get rid of on top in the holiday box with a note to try selling them. Two years later I unpacked them with perfect timing to put them on Marketplace for cheap… So, yay?
I enjoyed wearing my chicken/space invader top today and noticed another small hole. I think I’ll just darn that one, unless I’m in a silly mood when I get to it. 
I just mended my first heel! I wore a small hole in my favorite rainbow socks made by my DW on her circular knitting machine. I only wear her wool socks now…hence the hole. I am hard on heels.
It is not perfect and I learned a lot. I also did the second sock just in case it is next. Now I need to find the other two pairs of socks with holes. They aren’t rainbow, but I like them anyway.
Nice save!
This poor quilt, I swear it’ll be more patches than quilt before too long. Making the bed today, I discovered a huge hole and a bunch of bitty ones, so I’m spending my evening fixing them.
No worries, though, as I am being supervised…
Just keep mending until you have a whole new quilt!
I just finished mending my SILs favorite lap quilt. The fabrics are old and fragile. Last time I stitched over some sashing that had failed and replaced the binding, plus lots of patches. This may be thelat time.
This one (12 years old) is getting threadbare in a lot of places, too. We only pull it out in the colder months for the last couple years - ever since I had made a new quilt for our bed.
All done (for now).
Now that is artful mending! Beautifying an already beautiful piece!
Such a great save! I love the look of those old quilts that have been repaired over and over again until they’re almost entirely from new fabric.
We have a quilt on our bed that’s over a decade old, too, and it’s very worn-out. Mr. Imma has gotten rather attached to it so I’m trying to figure out the best way to mend it.
Thanks! It’s fun, seeing the patchwork pile up. I’d like to get another quilt in rotation so that the wear on this one slows down. It’s the only quilt I’ve hand-quilted - it’s a little special to me.
I wish I did some fun mending! Instead, I am going through a wardrobe purge a la Jennifer Connolly for women over 60. I decided to tackle one section at a time to see what needs done.
I tackled my undies and bras drawer first. Threw out anything gnarly looking or uncomfortable and made a bunch of repairs to elastic (are they using cheap elastic now?) and to that new stretchy stuff that they just seem to glue together (I sewed everything down as the glue is trash!). Phew!
T-shirt drawer next!
At which point it’ll be even warmer! 
DS1 managed to pop a seam on his favorite ushanka (just above the ear flap), so I stitched it back together this afternoon.
Is that what they are called? My husband has a solid colored one, and we just call it the trapper hat, since we didn’t know. 
lol We always called it the Cousin Eddie hat from the National Lampoon Christmas Story movie!
Oh, yes! I had forgotten about that movie.
DS1 apparently looked up the actual name at some point and now refuses to call it a ‘hat.’ He also spent a year learning Russian because he always seems to make his current favorite hat part of his personality. When he was little, he had a baseball cap that he made me put giant googly eyes on. He named it and treated it like a sort of security blanket/imaginary friend, even after (toddler) DS2 threw it in the (clean!) toilet. Yes, we sanitized it. My Grandpa had the same love of hats, so this never seemed odd.
We always watch Christmas Vacation a lot during the holidays…I wonder if that’s why he liked the hat so much. 
