#visible mending

[thehaberdasheress]

TFW you're a small Canadian business and the country 90% of your customers live in just made exporting to them way harder 🙃 so you have to change your tactics up a bit

Now at my Etsy shop

I sell stick-and-stitch embroidery patterns that are extremely easy to follow. They're taken from medieval and 16th century embroidery, or designed by me. They can mend patches in your jeans, decorate your clothes, or help you build a new costume. Then when you're done, just wash the pattern away!

This is the biggest discount sale I've done yet. It runs until April 1!

[fruitdragon]

Yes! I love doing this, fabric spray paint on my denim and leather, patches, pins I make, so many dye baths. Just have fun and be creative!

Diy doesn't have to be Make A New Jacket From Scratch btw, it can be turning Jacket You Don't Wear into Jacket You DO Wear by adding a simple patch, adding a cool charm to your zipper, or dying it a new color! :) diy is about doing whatever you can do, with what you have, however you feel comfortable.

Don't psyche yourself out of a good thing! It takes time and practice but you can Get There!! what the practiced diy-ers with all the coolest projects don't tell you is they were beginners too once upon a time!

[hidefdoritos]

Did an embroidery on the project jeans. Trying to center my being in these times.

[heavymead0w]

Forever finding new holes in my mom's favorite sweater

[magnificent-buckless-butt]

My first try was to make a Winter Soldier-style hoodie.

So I went to the throwaway box and came back with two hoodies, one grey, way too large for me and not very smooth and the other nice but apparently too small and with a cheesy quote on it.

I took a sleeve from the grey one and cut it to adapt it to the blue one, sewed a red star on it and why not, added a zip (I hate zip and I don't know how to sew them right so it was sideways).

I fucking loved it.

pro tip if you want to start modding your clothes but are scared, start with the shit you never wear

because if you already dislike it, you really have nowhere to go but up AND you can end up with a cool one-of-a-kind garment that you made and that you really like!

AND it’s better than just throwing it away

[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]

[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!!!?!!!

[hopegrasping]

Let go of the idea that diy will inherently look shit. All your clothes are handmade you just don't see the people doing it.

[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.

[tempered-grace]

More mends on the pair of climbing pants I was talking about! The first one is across the ass bc there was a hole there and the pocket seam was coming apart. The two others are in the front, along the seams of the knee reinforcement since those were ALSO falling apart!

Super proud of how they turned out, but eternally disappointed that REI brand pants have this much wear after less than one year of use. Ah well. At least they look cool now

[thehaberdasheress]

AT LAAAAAST

I've been thrifting as a habit for years now and finally found my white whale: a leafy-mossy-green wool spring jacket. It's 40% wool and was $9.99 at Value Village.

I can see why it got discarded, by modern standards; the fabric was pilling, it had gotten grubby but was dry-clean only, and a few little wear spots had appeared in the fabric

If only this coat could find an owner... with a bunch of spring-themed visible mending patches to test......

Who'd recently bought an embroidery floss pack with slightly desaturated jewel tones Alphonse Mucha would love that suited it perfectly....

Hm. Well then.

I'll keep you updated on any progress!

[heavymead0w]

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