#Mending

[livingtheparallellife]

My wolfstar inspired visible mending project.

Not yet finished 🌕⭐

[san-sews-seams]

[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

[shadesofmauve]

I wore my shirt to the Quebecois jam yesterday!

From the comments my friends made, I learned three things:

This is very tiny weaving.

I have once again done something difficult without realizing it just because I had no idea what I was doing or what was supposed to be difficult.

Everyone who does small work should have lots of friends who are over 60ish, because they'll likely be extra impressed, and unable to see the flaws without reading glasses*

*Don't encourage them to find their reading glasses.

Anyway, I was just following instructions. The internet said "match the size of the thread to the fineness of the material" and the material is a machine knit shirt with threads I can barely see, so... I just took the embroidery floss all the way apart and used only one strand.

I thought that was what you were supposed to do!

Things in the world still suck. I'm still working on mending. There were holes there and now there are leaves!

[africanmorning]

[vertbrunch]

Tried visible mending for the first time !

love the effect on this old turtleneck filled with holes.

[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

[scarecrowscribe]

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

[swallowsummer]

Darning socks using thrifted green wool and half backstitch to reinforce a large area of wear. Will give these to the owner to test later, to check they like the texture. I’m using a jam jar as my darning mushroom.

These have been out and about and have started two conversations on mending today.

[hey-howsitgoin]

So I've had this joke in my head for a couple months (at least), but hadn't found the right spot to make it. Today it is complete.

A hole in my jeans?

Hmm? What's this?

A Patchypus?

REPAIRRY THE PATCHYPUS!!!?!!!

[reportsofagrandfuture]

[georgedontdothat]

sashiko

[knottybliss]

Today I stripped the sheets off my bed and threw them in the wash with my pillow, and due to unfortunate circumstances none of the above are dry AND I haven’t been able to wash the blanket I’ve been using and which needs a wash because it has got The Stink. So I redressed my bed with unfamiliar sheets from the closet, and an elaborate crochet blanket I rescued from the thrift at least two years ago because it is huge and gorgeous and I couldn’t find what was wrong with it, and with the open work it looks awesome atop the peacock throw:

And finally, FINALLY! having it spread out on the bed atop a dark contrasting color enabled me to see just what was so wrong that it was abandoned to the thrift:

That is so, so fixable. I can do that. I’m not gonna right now, it’s gonna sit on my bed like this until the Executive Dysfunction Weasels determine the hands of the Mending Clock are in position for the deal or whatever.

[mmm-cake-nomnomnom-blog]

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

[ihopethemoonislistening]

My brother's beloved pullover got eaten by moths, so I was allowed to use it to practice my darning. A lot of learning as I went, and you can sort of see which holes I started with and my skill slowly improving. Tried out different colour combinations and anchorings and all in all, very pleased with the results.