#visible mending

[swallowsummer]

Good job on the cuff mend!

Got a green wool cardigan at the thrift store last month, and it had a damaged cuff and a little hole on the pocket... So I did my best to mend it !

The cuff was a challenge honestly and I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I used some of the yarn from my stash, clearly not the same weight as the original cardigan yarn (because I don't have that fine of a yarn). It has lost some of its elasticity in the process, but it is no longer fraying so I'll take that as a win !

For the hole in the pocket I used some leftover thread that I keep in a box.

[africanmorning]

[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

[swallowsummer]

Love the blanket stitch.

I finally finished mending my favourite trousers. I mended the frayed edges of the legs (before and after)

And I got another button which is not the right colour, but which is the right width.

[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;)

[scarecrowscribe]

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

[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!!!?!!!

[labgrownfemcel]

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 :)

[neunian]

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

[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!!

[thehaberdasheress]

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[mmm-cake-nomnomnom-blog]

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