Visible mending wool sweater

Darning used to be the practise of mending a hole in a garment by carefully stitching colour matching interwoven yarns across each other so that the darning blended into the fabric and becomes almost invisible. ⁣ ⁣ I have recently come across the concept of 'visible mending'. A creative and interesting way of mending clothing. The resulting artwork can make you fall in love with an item of clothing again, wearing your beautiful darn as a badge of honour and extending the life of your…

Meet Kate Sekules of Visible Mend, the creator #MendMarch and a Historian of Mending. Her ultimate goal is to infect everyone with mending fascination! Read on to learn more and get inspired by her fearless, no frills approach to mending that's often hilarious and fun, like her signature greasytee or selfie-patch.

Visible mending (elbow)

Flame sock darn | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Learn how to mend a wool sweater quickly and easily with this simple tutorial. The secret to mending a sweater quickly and easily starts, with one little tool. This DIY sweater repair will walk you through the steps of fixing a sweater or any wool item in the quickest and easiest method possible. I bought

Let’s talk about mending this week. We so often focus on the making of fabrics whether it’s knitting or crocheting but what do we do with all of the wonderful knitwear once it has been …

growing a minimalist wardrobe: repair a wool sweater. – Reading My Tea Leaves – Slow, simple, sustainable living.

Little moth-hole darn. Credit: www.scrapiana.com

This was meant for a magazine last year but the mending theme for the issue changed and I was too busy to follow it up so I happily tucked it away to share here for another day. I often wear...

Creative visible mending projects, darning and Swiss daring, and creative mending techniques.

I popped into my friend Alex’s shop recently, and she was wearing a vintage cardigan with roled up sleeves. We were chatting away over a nice cuppa and the conversation turned to mending and …

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.