Altering an old, formerly heavily oversized metal bandshirt. #yarntales #mendtogether

Well! I did do some mending today. It’s not worth a photograph, but I cut the bottom button off of a shirt and sewed it in place in the chest-high spot that needed a replacement button. So now I can wear that shirt again, yay. (I might try finding a replacement bottom button, but it’s not critical.)

#YarnTales #MendTogether

So here's what I had in mind for covering over the hole in my shirt. There's a patch on the back, and now I'm going to embroider over the lot to hide the hole. The plan is also to embroider at least a couple of other leaves in another spot.

Sometimes I like visible mending, and sometimes I don't. This is a nice enough shirt that I'd like it to be a little less obvious, anyway.

#MendTogether #YarnTales

Unfortunately, I forgot to go to the art shop yesterday while running errands, and they weren't open yet when I stopped by this morning.

Sometimes things are a matter of patience. I'll find something else to work on today; I have no shortage of mending!

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I hope to get around to some mending for #YarnTales today; it's been a hectic week.

How's it going for you all?

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My project for #YarnTales today was to begin to deal with a hole in a favorite linen shirt. (The shirt has a pocket!)

Today was prep work. I basted a patch onto the back of the shirt. I didn't worry about matching the color of the patch at all because I'm going to embroider a leaf over the hole tomorrow.

Today I pressed the spot where the hole is, and pressed the patch, and carefully stitched the patch in place on the back of the fabric.

#MendTogether #sewing #FiberArts #FibreArts

I decided to get a little practice with mending a pair of jeans that aren’t my favorite. These are a bit tricky because the hole is right next to a back pocket.

First, I pressed the jeans where the hole is.

Then I cut a rectangular patch and pressed creases into the edge of the patch to help them stay folded under while I sewed.

#YarnTales #MendTogether

Oh, hey, it’s time for #YarnTales! I have some deadline work to do this morning, but this afternoon I’m going to get out a pair of jeans with a hole that needs patching. #MendTogether

@erinbee No worries - thanks you for being so kind! I was just in the right place to observe and report.

(Disclosure: I encountered this tidbit almost 3 years ago, and *still* have not done this to our own sets. OTOH I begin to consider this as a project for #MendTogether... hmmm.)

Thinking ahead to #YarnTales, I got a book out of the library called Mending Matters, by Katrina Rodabaugh.

Based on long sewing experience, including a fair amount of mending, I would definitely recommend it for learning to mend, especially sewn garments.

(It’s not about mending knitwear or crochet.)

Anyway, I can say that I’ve already gotten some ideas I wouldn’t have thought of on my own that I’m looking forward to using.

For a range of experience

#MendTogether

One of the things I’m going to mend is a pair of jeans that has a pocket starting to tear loose.

I think arrowhead tacks should fix the problem, and so I’m going to put this link here for later.

#YarnTales #MendTogether

https://blog.colettehq.com/tutorials/arrowhead-tack-tutorial

This is meant to cover knitting, embroidery, sewing, crochet... in short, anything textile-related.

And if you'd like to tag mending posts with #MendTogether, that's something that could be used on an ongoing basis after June, and also for non-textile mending, because why not?

@OldBrushNewPaper no reason not to add #MendTogether as well!

@gannet I'm in for the idea of going with a "mend together" - especially as my own "basket" has at the very top a project delayed through my having picked up a nasty cold.

I will definitely be of the "dipping in and out" sort, but you give a positive recognition to that, so thank you!

#YarnTales gets my preference. Would we also enjoy a #MendTogether as well?