#visible mending

[quill-ting]

Over the last few months I've been sprucing up and repairing my backpack. I've patched it previously, and this time I did a little more.

Firstly I stripped off all my embroidered patches and dyed the bag. It ended up a little more purple than blue, and dried a little patchy, but I'm still really happy with it.

Then I patched up the worst of the damage with some starry scrap fabric I had lying around. As part of this I covered one of the straps, and fixed up the handle on the top.

I did a little darning on the areas that weren't bad enough to need a patch with some dark blue thread. The fabric of the bag is a little worn after five years of near daily use, so I wanted to give it the help it needs.

Finally, I did some embroidery on the front to jazz it up! This included a sneaky little medieval bat, because why not?

[livingtheparallellife]

My wolfstar inspired visible mending project.

Not yet finished 🌕⭐

[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

[africanmorning]

[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!

[scarecrowscribe]

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

[ericafails]

SLEEVE: FIXED

[monstera-tea]

symbiosis

some visible mending I did on an old flannel recently! this was fun but took me so long to convince myself to do, Im very happy with how its come out though. The lichens are oak moss, bloodstain lichen, a third thats very common in texas but i forgot the name of, and then some lovely little algae (i love algae in theory but hate it in eutrophication ;v;)

[neunian]

Was looking through my photos and found this jean patch I did a couple years ago :)

[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!!!?!!!

[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.

[ihavenomouthandimustyap]

Idea: sew some cute little moths with scrap fabrics and sew them on holes you have on your clothes so you can keep wearing them :)

[cuties-in-codices]

more medieval manuscript repairs

all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r

[druggeddraccus]

finished the pants!!