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Today I learned how to do Swiss darning (aka duplicate stitch) on a thinning sock heel.

Pros:
+ Relaxing to work
+ Opportunity to use the World's Most Beautiful Darning Egg (pictured)
+ Invisible with matching yarn

Cons:
- Slower than standard darning
- For thinning not holey socks
- Invisible with matching yarn - which makes it harder to tell where you're up to!

Overall, a method I'd happily use again. I just need to monitor the state of my sock heels a bit more closely.
#mending #darning #TIL

A darning egg carved of dark wood, inlaid with brass in a pattern of delicate stems with spots and flowers.

Well, I am now absolutely fed up with mending, and am ready to leave the rest for another day. This one big flower does please me, though. The patch is on the underside and I trimmed the worn through and torn top layer as a sort of reverse appliqué.

#Mending #VisibleMending

A simple flower with two large leaves embroidered in white onto white linen fabric. The sleeve seam runs under one of the big leaves, and there's only one layer of fabric on the leaf part, and two elsewhere on the patch. The cut out top layer has been affixed with two lines of chain stitch, making for a sort of lily of the valley type leaf pattern, and a little flower has been added with buttonhole stitch, quite abstracted. The patch has been sewn on from the reverse, showing slanted lines of whipstitch through. It's all slightly shiny, being mercerised cotton embroidery thread.

Well, this is going to take roughly forever. The patches are all large enough that I'll want to cross them over with something, but also it's just a little bit of a hassle, and there's so much of it. I'm probably going to run out of thread before I'm done, too! 😅

#Mending #VisibleMending

Overlooking a white linen shirt sleeve that has a number of overlapping patches on it. From the wrong side they've been whipstitched on, and on the right side this shows up as a line of slanted spaced stitches. On top of the patches there's topstitching or embroidery of varying style and care, going from diagonal running stitches to feather stitch. It's a little bit of a mess.

From the inside, a patch has been overcast onto the under the arm bit of the sleeve, going across the sleeve seam and attaching to the arm's eye seam. The patch is white linen, with very frayed, fluffy edges, the fabric secured just past the fluffy bit.

Another patch from the inside, going diagonally across the sleeve seam, and being secured in the same way. It has been tacked on with pink basting thread along the edge, and where the sleeve seam goes. Size wise all of these patches, this one also, are much larger than the palm of a hand, and cover rather large areas of threadbare sleeve.

In addition to Theseus' Skirt, I am in possession of Theseus' Shirt. It's this loose and mostly rectangular thrift shop white linen shirt I got ages ago, and have been wearing a lot all the time since it's very comfy, cute and crisp at the same time... And rather predictably the sleeves are now patch upon patch upon patch. The bodice part is miraculously still patch free, just threadbare and see-through! 😆
Anyway. Both sleeves have new tears, so guess I'm mending it again.

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It's the 4th Monday of the month, and that means another cozy #crafting night. We had a small group tonight, but it was still nice. Projects included cross stitch, painting a picture of a carrot, copying over recipes, darning socks, and my first attempt at #embroidery as #mending. My wife had made one of her old T-shirts into a skirt, and there was a small hole. I thought I could cover it with a flower, but she asked for a hexagon. So out came a compass and ruler to construct one.

The bottom of a mottled black and gray skirt, with a small purple hexagon embroidered on it in satin stitch. The skirt is atop a piece of paper on which the same size hexagon is inscribed in a circle (which was used to construct the hexagon).

I was looking for a specific bit of mending technique and misremembered which book it was in, but look at this! Mending, darning and patching instructions straight from the 1920s. There's a couple I haven't much seen anywhere else, especially stoting.

https://archive.org/details/newdressmakerwit00butt/page/146/mode/2up?view=theater

#Mending #OldManuals

Does anyone have a good guide for a beginner on how to repair moth holes in wool Jersey? It's fairly thin, T-shirt weight (I think around 180gsm?). I don't have any matching wool yarn that fine, but I do have matching Rasant thread for both colours.

I'd really like to do it as a fairly invisible or minimally visible repair, but I have no idea how to go about it. I do have some scraps of the fabrics I can use but I feel like patching will be very obvious. I've seen somewhere that you can sort of re-knit or re-continue the knit somehow, but I don't know how to do that or what the technique is.

(Also, what's a cheap way to deter clothes moths that won't aggravate my allergies and doesn't have to be redone too often? I'm not sure I have much faith in cedar balls, and I'm not sure that mothballs will work for stuff that I have hanging on my open wardrobe/airer thing. EDIT: Also not sure if I should be treating or sanitising my fabric storage, drawers, etc with something to remove and deter any moths or larva already present.)

#mending #fibrearts #sewing #fashion

Please thighs can you not chew through these trousers again 🙏🏻 we're running out of salvageable jean to anchor the patches to

#mending #visible-mending #crotch-patches #Would-Not-Recommend-doing-patches-of-this-size-by-hand #especially-the-1st-huge-patch #tbh-idk-if-those-jeans-will-last-long-even-with-the-patch #but-it-beats-spending-like-£45-on-a-new-pair-so

Photo of the seat of a pair of jeans. 2 large holes can be seen on either side of the central buttcrack seam. A bright blue fabric has been used to patch the holes, and the surrounding denim of the jeans is peppered with semi-regular stitches going in up & down in rows parallel to the middle seam. The edges of the holes are quiet freyed in places, even tho I did try to trim them a bit before hand. Dark/medium blue denim with black stitches

2nd pair of jeans with similar holes on the seat of the ass, but these 2 are smaller than the ones in the 1st photo. One patch is the same bright blue, while another is of a similar grey to the rest of the jeans. Both patches are anchored down with a slightly wonky grid of stitches, running mostly parallel to the central and inner thigh seams. Again, the edges of the holes are quite freyed but if I have to cut away any more of these jeans they're not going to be patchable. Grey denim with dark forest green stitches

3rd seat-of-the-ass jeans photo. This time the holes are much smaller, but the overall area covered in stitches is much bigger. These jeans are desperately trying to dissolve into confetti but I won't let them. Pale denim with white stitches

Been fixing my jean while I wait for new job paperwork to get sorted and I need a fuckin sewing machine already

#mending #visible-mending #all-the-patches-are-in-the-crotch-as-well-'-.-

I seem to be on a bit of a roll. One pair of badly moth-eaten 'Call me Al' (that's A-ell, not A-i) socks all mended!!
The yarn is a very sumptuous, plump feeling blue faced Leicester if I remember correctly, lovely to wear. Those blasted moths always go for the best fibres! Greedy little buggers...

Luckily most holes were in the soles.

Glad this is done, took me months to get to. Was even the second mending job on these.

#mending #knitting

Pair of socks with a meandery pattern of elongated yarnovers. They form a curve on top of a triangular bit, very clever. Reminds me a little of flames.

The revolution will not be ready-to-wear.
All these looks require a bit of TLC now and then; luckily, this Taylor is occasionally a tailor of modest skill. Thanks, mom!
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@clotheshorse.bsky.social #sewist #mending

A photo of me, a 47 year old white man with a shaved head, a short cropped brown & grey beard,

photographed from the chest up,

wearing a bright blue T-shirt and black acetate glasses

behind a sewing machine with red thread on the spool and a sticker of cute kittens in a basket with yarn and a slogan reading "Sewing is a radical act"

She is finished! I couldn't find a replacement canopy for a half umbrella, and buying a whole new one seemed wasteful, so I used my limited sewing skills to modify a full-size canopy down to size. #mending

A half-umbrella against a wall on a balcony overlooking a green courtyard with a cloudy summer sky behind. Along the railing, some potted plants and a mourning dove.

Da war ein Loch ...

#embroidery #mending #visiblemending #sticken #Handarbeiten #upcycling #reparieren

Das Bild zeigt einen Ausschnitt eines schwarzen, mit weißer Schrift bedruckten T-Shirts. Man erkennt die untereinander geschriebenen Worte "people" und "scare". Zwischen ihnen, etwas unterhalb des 2. P und etwas oberhalb des R ist ein kleines rotes Herz gestickt.

Also this was the image I was trying to upload the other day of the sock I've been darning

#mending #darning
Not perfect but whatever. It works

#Mending #Elytra #Pickaxe.

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Just did a kind of honeycomb darn on my headphone side that was splitting. #mending #repaired cc @tefferbear thank you for the inspiration.

A blanket stitch going around the inner edge of a split earphone cover. The outer side already has two rows of blanket stitch.

The whole thing stitched back together with a kind of netting between the two edges.

Have been in a bit of a slump for my quilt projects, so decided to hit the mending pile. I extended pockets in 6 pair of pants and patched two previously extended pockets.

Making pocket extensions is so much fun, I get to chose fun fabric from my scrap pile and it makes me happy to know I just may have some sock monkeys, purple turtles, pink/purple hearts, or crazy orange stars on my pockets when others just have plain old boring pockets.

#sewing #mending #pocketsforwomen

I mended a small hole in a hoodie:

#mending #embroidery #rainbow #repair #clothes

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