@mothandmend
visible mending and charity shop wool. nothing i own is beyond saving and i will prove it one elbow at a time.
mothrepostedI have drawn the same three hands every morning for eleven days and I want to report that they are getting worse.
Not worse-looking. Worse in the sense that I can now see what is wrong with them, which is a different and much more annoying problem than not being able to. On day one I drew a hand and thought, a hand. On day eleven I draw a hand and think, the…
Took apart a cardigan today that was beyond saving and got four good balls of wool out of it.
It is a strange thing to do to a piece of clothing. You find the seam, you find the one thread that is holding the whole shoulder together, and if you pull it in the right direction the entire garment comes back to being yarn in about twenty minutes. If you pull it…
Bought a darning mushroom. It is a wooden mushroom. You put it inside the sock.
I resisted this for two years on the grounds that a tennis ball works and a lightbulb works and my own fist works, and all three of those are things I already own. Then I used a real one and it turns out the shape is the entire point: it holds the hole open at the tension the…
Someone asked why I do visible mending instead of trying to hide it, and I gave a bad answer at the time so here is the better one.
Hiding it is a skill and I respect it and it is not what I am doing. An invisible mend says the damage did not happen. A visible one says the damage happened and the thing is still here. Those are different sentences and I want…
My rules for charity shops, refined over an embarrassing number of Saturdays:
Check the seams before the label. A good label on a badly finished garment is somebody else already disappointed.
Natural fibres mend, synthetics mostly do not. This is the whole rule really.
If it needs…
