How to finally Mend all your holey and torn Clothes

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  @VermisTerrae · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Important tip about darning with wool yarn!! If your yarn is superwash, it will NOT felt, at least not in the way that wool does by default. Superwash wool is treated so that it can be machine washable without shrinking and felting. If you have a really fluffy hairy yarn, the fibers may sort of lock up and tangle a bit, but it will not genuinely felt. Just a tip in case anyone is aiming for truly felted wool :)

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  @draig2614 · 2 years ago

  Several years ago, I stepped off the bus, slipped on some ice, and ripped a hole in the knee of my new jeans. (And scraped the skin off that knee too.) As a quilter, I took some of my quilting fabric scraps and made a couple of square patches which I overlapped over the hole and appliquéd there. These then became my favourite jeans for as long as they lasted, because I had personalized them in this way.

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  @angrytrees7519 · 2 years ago

  The old "make it worse" strategy is one of my favorites too. "This doesn't match.... So let's make it not match with more intent!".

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  @donquijotedegranada · 2 years ago (edited)

  miss morgan's marvelous mending made my morning

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  @sonipitts · 2 years ago (edited)

  I believe in refusing the fish decoration on his breeches, Mr. Donner was attempting to avoid the inevitable "cod piece" jokes from his mates. 😆 One option moving forward is to cut matching patches of a strong material and stitch them on over the outside of both inner thighs, then quilt that down to the underlying breeches. (You can cut a "filler" piece for the area where the fabric is missing and baste it down to the external patch before quilting to keep the whole thing feeling smooth and even.) This creates a strong reinforced area that will prevent future tears in the fabric on either side, and will look a lot more "intentional" (like a reinforced gusset or friction guards) as if that was the way the breeches were meant to be in the first place.

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  @darkangel90 · 2 years ago

  I’m sitting watching with my 4 year old son, and he tunes in and out of what you’re doing. But he looks up and he goes. I like her, she’s beautiful, she makes stuff.😊

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  @dragonmaster5983 · 2 years ago

  I think the red dress deserves a solid 10 out of 10.  It looks like a whole new garment...I love it!  Definitely repeat the flowers on the other underarm.  I have always despised mending, so thank you for making it look fun.  Next time something has a hole in it, I'll view it as a creative opportunity.

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  @terrichicosky5676 · 2 years ago

  I love that visible mending is being embraced, instead of the throw it away mindset…

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  @lajoyous1568 · 2 years ago

  I love the rainbow thread for mending. It makes it look intentionally obvious, so you&apos;re not stuck trying to perfectly match thread. Instead you&apos;re making art from an oops 😁 <br>It all turned out wonderful

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  @AnnekeOosterink · 2 years ago

  I made a long skirt out of old cotton curtains and then promptly tore a hole in them walking past a fence with a metal piece sticking out. I had kept the scraps of course, so I was able to find a little patch that matched the pattern on the skirt and cover the hole with a sewn on patch. I used the teeny tiny stitches where you only lift a single thread of the fabric so the patch is almost invisible. You can only see it if the sun shines through the fabric, or if you get up really close. I know where it is, and even I had trouble finding it. My hoarding fabric habit came in handy, so I don&apos;t have any incentive to stop. 😁

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  @sand-rake · 2 years ago

  I really appreciated being reminded that mending can be visible and fun. I usually find myself fixing the inner thigh of my jeans trying to make it look smooth and invisible, and that kind of takes the fun out of mending I guess? &nbsp;<br><br>You asked what kind of mending we&apos;d have liked to see, so that would be my wish: some more tips, tricks and pointers on how to fix up the inner thigh area of jeans.

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  @r8chlletters · 2 years ago

  Visible mending can be very fun. Personally for reenactment when I fix holes I just reinforce the edges with red thread as if it was a wound! Very fun to do and explain how you got stabbed by the pointy end of a sword lol

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