#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
Why am I hanging around here? #Procrastination. I have to write a French promotional text for myself with trous de mites in meinem Gehirn.
The worst thing is that the topic only exists in English, but some visitors don't like foreign languages. 🙄 How do I tell them ... about my workshop for #VisibleMending! Je travaille sur la définition succincte en français. :clippy:
@NatureMC In the mid 90s there was a project called 'Europanto':
„Europanto esse un ‚pidgin‘ gemade von multe parts von multe Europish langues, que chaquebody with un gemutfeeling por dies langues verstand posse. Il esse gedacht by Diego Marani, un traducter por die Europish Togethering.“
A question for menders: when/how do you decide if the fabric of a much-mended garment is worn too thin to be worth mending again (and it's therefore time for deconstruction/repurposing/compost etc)? #mending#VisibleMending
@DMakarios In a somewhat brutal way: I carefully (!) pull the fabric in opposite directions in several places with both hands. If holes or tears form everywhere, it's not worth it.
Then I cut the Visible Mending into pieces that I use for art journals or as patches. (I don't compost because of some toxins for soil life/microplastics).
In honor of the second anniversary of adopting our dog, I fixed the hole she chewed in the couch when we first got her in a totally inconspicuous way #visiblemending
I was rummaging through old photos and found this testimony of how I started (and then got hooked on) #VisibleMending. Moths had eaten holes in my favourite jumper. I was furious and swore revenge with a needle. Since I couldn't embroider properly or be accurate, I "needle-painted" yarn moths. Today, everyone thinks the jumper is an expensive designer piece. 🤭
The neckline is ripping apart on this t-shirt and I’d like to repair it with a neat looking visible mend. Does anyone have a suggestion for a simple, but fun #VisibleMending technique I could use? I don’t know any crosstitch techniques, but I do have some cool embroidery thread and needle on hand. https://www.reddit.com/r/Visiblemending/
Thanks for all the tips today! This was my first #VisibleMending project and I went with @ChurchHatesTucker’s suggestion of using a buttonhole stitch on my #BlackbirdRaum shirt. I fixed three holes and added a few unnecessary flourishes to the silkscreened illustration.
🧵 1/ My new #VisibleMending project: This linen-yarn T-shirt is a memento of my dog, who once got stuck at the bottom with his claw and tore a hole. It's darned in the shape of a yellow beetle. To make the whole thing more harmonious, I'm going to do a few small appliqués elsewhere today. @visiblemending
I want to learn how to do #VisibleMending but I suck at teaching myself new #hobbies so I want to take an in person class & the only ones near me start at $100+.
So yeah, got any recommendations for learning how to mend clothing in fun ways? Sigh. I see if I can get a book out from the library.
Bought myself 2 goodies- #Sashiko needles & a chalk pencil (photo below). I already have or can borrow the rest of what I need from #crafty friends. Also got 2 books on mending at the library. I'm curious to know how I'm going to do with this. Some crafts I'm a natural at, others I struggle with.
Today's #stitching practice. 🌠 This was fun. I may do this to a pair of jeans I actually wear. Lol. Does it look ok?
Photo is a scrap of blue denim with 3 stars & a crescent moon stitched in off white silk thread. 3 rows of straight stitches connect them all. I think I may like doing #embroidery (which I have little knowledge of) vs #mending. I'm going to keep practicing both.
🧵 1/ A thread about the crazy project of planning an #exhibition stand in only 3 days!
Procrastinators have one strength: they really come into their own under time pressure! I stood in for an exhibitor at the Fibreart Festival at extremely short notice. I didn't have any #displays or material for the stand. I have to set it up on Thursday, and I still have umpteen appointments beforehand. What the hell can I do?
Read ALT for more infos.
Upon our return home, a series of unfortunate events occurred during which a human member of the household who isn’t me melted a red plastic bucket with a wool skirt in it. It’s fine; we all set buckets on fire sometimes.
BUT: I fixed it! I picked up stitches from the cut off burned areas, and my technique got better with time. It was actually a pretty quick repair project. I’m not saying you SHOULD burn plastic onto your clothes, but if you do…
Safety pinning a long tear across the yoke of my denim jacket I got from the Cisco firewall appliance training team as a thank-you for helping coil cables and pack equipment afterward. (edit: pic) I am aiming to do some #VisibleMending .
