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…
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…
