#Mending

[stellernorth]

potholder!

[martha-anne]

Replacement sleeve: complete. Room for improvement on the hem, but otherwise a successful fix.

Repair Job

I have a wonderful wool jumper which was passed to me secondhand by a relative.

I wear it a lot and repair it a lot.

Recently the sleeve got burned whilst I was cooking. An item this loved is worth repairing, but how?

My plan is to cut the sleeve off above the burn, pick up stitches, and re-knit it in a different yarn. First, though, I need to figure out how to match the gauge. Catch me knitting swatches this afternoon.

[cephalopodcrafts]

I recently saw this video of engineering knits mending their store-bought socks by knitting a new heel and toe and that was so cool and amazing, and I know the ripping back and the gauge (even if I go to a bigger gauge) will be so bad, but I have these sheep socks that really need to last longer

I might try it on less precious socks first and see whether I can bring myself to to this

[snekfloof]

Reminder to everyone that the mending of clothes, especially visible mending, is an act of rebellion in a consumerist society with a culture of fast fashion.

[heavymead0w]

Forever finding new holes in my mom's favorite sweater

[reportsofagrandfuture]

[mmm-cake-nomnomnom-blog]

Did some fancy repairing, my pal said this would probably "do numbers on tumblr"...so ta da!

[stonebutchooze]

I share my sewing wins on here, seems only right I should share my sewing moments of humiliation:

yesterday I accidentally sewed a greggs vegan sausage roll into the lining of a winter coat whilst mending the pockets

[themysterykat]

Darning over a whole and reinforcement, don't mind the pen marks lol

[africanmorning]

[vertbrunch]

Tried visible mending for the first time !

love the effect on this old turtleneck filled with holes.

[scarecrowscribe]

Moss and lichen inspired repairs on my jacket. Some of my oldest and newest work lives on this thing.

[georgedontdothat]

sashiko

[cuties-in-codices]

medieval parchment repairs

in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.

source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r

[heavymead0w]

A friend commissioned me to patch their grandpa's old Carhartt jacket <33