I did something!
Recently I got 2 little mending looms. I found a hole in the striped blanket I made for my Kidlet and figured it was as good as any s project to learn on. It is as much a hot mess as most firsts are, but it should keep it from unraveling. I chose to use the yarn from the blanket, but I kind of wish i had gone for a drastically different one. Ah well.
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Terrible Housekeeper tip #101:
Let the mending pile sit untouched so long that when you go to clean around it the dust is such that you feel it best to toss it all in the wash “just to be safe”
There, now the mending basket is empty!
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#lifehack
Moths eating the mending pile will also take a chunk out of it, theoretically.
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Oh yes. And mice. Let’s not forget Scurry McBrazen and his band of nibblers.
I really gotta just intentionally make time for things. That’s on the Winter Agenda.
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Yesterday I actually tossed out a bag of not-gonna-mend clothes and fabric for patching that isn’t actually good for that along with 4 “not worth darning” socks(I think we all know I need fewer problem socks in this house! Lol).
Then today I mended: tears in a sweater, a turtleneck, a costume hood thing, a skirt and put a button on a dress and all of these are now out of the dining room and back in rotation.
I still have 2 afghans, a beheaded cabbage patch kid, 2 cloth napkins, a bed skirt, a chair cushion, a stained Tshirt I thought I might salvage with an embellishment, and my Irish knit pull over.
But, progress !
Currently: sweater on the mending docket:
This poor sweater.
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Moved two more items out of the dining room mending heap:
This cushion had popped all the shaping stitches and was an unusable ball of stuffing:l
And this med kit bag has too much asked of it. Hopefully this helps:
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You have done lots of mending this year! 
I have thought of mending but didnt get any done. Other than a pile full of stuff with holes in them! 
Oh well, they will be in their pile, and I will try next year!
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Thanks! I’m working on decluttering the house in general so I have been trying to be intentional about going to the mending pile and working on things more frequently.
Kind of like how buying yarn is a separate hobby from actually knitting or crocheting it, the hoarding of things needing mending wasn’t being connected to actually mending anything. I might set a spot in my week that is meant for looking at the mending pile so that my diningroom doesn’t look like a fix-it shop all year. 
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I mended my Christmas sweater today. It had some holes on the cuff. I don’t know what I do with my right arm… so far I have three mended places on that cuff. Two of them made tonight.
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I put on my Christmas dress on Boxing Day, straight from the washing machine, only to be laughed at by my guests 
turns out a thread broke in the back seam and there was a big hole. It’s a simple repair, so I decided to fix it rightaway instead of putting it on top of the pile. It’s back in the closet now!
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Today I tackled a blanket that has had years long waits in the mending pile. I don’t want to say 5 years, but I feel like it was before my kid was born and she’s 5 and 3 months so… holy mending procrastination, Batman!
That clears one whole tote bag from the diningroom mending heap. I have another crochet afghan and a couple of hats left I think. And my husband just brought me a backpack in need of reinforcements.
It never ends. Lol
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Wow…I really need to learn how to repair granny squares! The best I have been able to do is catch the stitches before they unravel…and it is really ugly! Did you follow a tutorial? It looks great!
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Thank you! I wandered down the rabbit hole for ages but just decided to follow one and go yesterday. This one was very clear, and I liked the voice which helps.
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I have annoying holes in all my tights but I haven’t found back my darning thread yet 
All my craft supplies are unpacked, as far as I know, but somehow that little bag is still missing. I want to find it rather than but new because I inherited darning thread from both grandma’s and already have enough for my lifetime.
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Isnt that one thing you mentioned bringing with you to the temporary house? Maybe it’s been left in the seasonal things or suitcases from that time?
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Who knows! Could very well be there. think I’ve unpacked all that stuff and didn’t come across it, as far as I remember, and I don’t remember using it there… but my memories of the last year are basically a blur. Maybe I unpacked them soon after I moved back and put them in a really clever place so I could find them back easily?
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I went hunting for the mending thread for a really cosy sweater that has been in the mending pile for too long. I found two yarns that could work, and then the mending thread. Woot!
This needs some fiddly mending, but the hole under one arm will be done with the ”close enough” yarn I found.
I need good lighting and the correct glasses to tackle this. I don’t want it in the mending pile for one more year…
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With the temperatures you’ve been having in Sweden, you could use a cosy sweater!
It’s still raining here today, but not very cold. The weather forecast says we’re going to have cold weather next week (nothing like what you guys are having there, worst case maybe -10C/15F) I just hope it stays dry, not looking forward to snow and ice. I am looking forward to wearing knitted sweaters again though! Our newly renovated house is nice and warm, which means the sweaters I used to live in in winter are still unworn in the closet this winter.
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I am a heathen & have been darning my socks with sewing thread. (but it does help that none of it really shows when I have shoes on…)
What is special about mending thread? I have got a couple balls of it from my grandmother, but besides tossing them into the mending basket, I have done nothing with them thus far.
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