Three darned patched in lighter blue on a cornflower blue bedsheet, folded.

#VisibleMending accomplished. The corner of the sheet got clawed because Princess, bless her, preferred the mattress to the scratch pad. The speed weave loom helped this along quite a bit.

Lia’s hand on the edge of a wooden and metal 14 prong darning loom with a grey heather cashmere scarf on it with a hole in the middle of the loom.

Lia’s hand on a grey heather cashmere scarf. There are 5 small patches of darned dark grey embroidery thread on two sections of the scarf. Some of the edges are a bit messy but the darning itself is pretty neat.

I got myself a speedweve #darning loom! I probably could have chosen an easier #mending project than a delicate cashmere blend scarf to try it out on but I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I still need to work on making neater edges but that’s just practice. #VisibleMending

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#manchesternh #mending #visiblemending

Photo of the corner of a quilt that is navy with a white pattern of stars, moons, hearts and planets. There is a rectangle of a different navy material seen down with some blue and red thread.

Photo of a corner of a navy quit with a quarter-sized hole torn in it.

I had to spend the day resting in bed (and resting my wrists from crochet for a day!) so it was the perfect time to quickly patch a beloved quilt. I used a scrap from an old pair of my partner’s work pants and some Sashiko thread ✨🪡🧵 #visiblemending #reducetextilewaste #sewsky #spoonie

Ärmel der grauen Strickjacke mit Loch. Daneben Stopfgarn in marineblau und eine Nadel.

Reparierter Ärmel der Strickjacke. Die gestopfte Stelle ist rundlich und sehr blau auf grau.

Eigentlich wollte ich die dünne Stelle im Ärmel der Lieblingsstrickjacke ganz in Ruhe prophylaktisch verstärken - aber nun war Reparatur statt Prophylaxe gefragt. Nun ja, für Handarbeit im schlecht beleuchteten Hotelzimmer ist es akzeptabel. #visiblemending

Visible mending on a pair of jeans 🪡
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The leg part of a brown hiking sock. Two worn areas now have darned patches forming squares of pink and purple (warp and weft).

The darning will continue until socks improve!

#VisibleMending #darning #sewing

🇺🇸🇬🇧 I'm waiting for good ideas on how to continue to #mend the skirt. In the meantime, I carry on Daughter's eternal socks. Sometimes I suspect she use them on sandpaper. 😅 #visiblemending #lovesclotheslast

🇮🇹➡️🇺🇸⬇️ Rammendo a tela con avanzi di filo su calzini già rammendati. Canvas mending with leftover thread on already mended socks.

🇮🇹➡️🇺🇸⬇️Calzini Rossi bianche e blu rammendati per (credo) la terza volta. Red, white and blue socks remended for (I think) the third time.

🇮🇹➡️🇺🇸⬇️ Rammendo a punto maglia con avanzi di filo su calzini già rammendati. Swiss stitch mending with leftover thread on already mended socks.

🇮🇹 Aspetto buone idee su come continuare a #rammendare la gonna. Nel frattempo porto avanti gli eterni calzini di Figlia. Ogni tanto ho il sospetto che li usi sulla carta vetrata. 😅 #visiblemending #lovesclotheslast

Front side of a skirt.

Backside of a skirt, covered with embroidered spirals.

Detail of the backside of the skirt.

Detail of the backside of the skirt.

Baksidan på den här kjolen blev tunnsliten. Jag har satt tyg som förstärkning på baksidan och fäst det med broderade spiraler och streckade krokiga linjer.

#synliglagning
#slöjd
#visiblemending
#craft

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Orange yellow stars embroidered on dark grey wool

My grey woolen sweater was ravaged by moths. I was not going to be defeated so easily, and thought of #visiblemending. It went the Van Gogh way yesternight, so now I have a starry night sweater. IMHO perfect for camping coming spring, if we indeed go to the Alps #upcycling .

I've been enjoying repairing some things with sashiko recently. That and a recent post by @socorro.society inspired me to make this. I also included my recent mending efforts.

#sashiko #visiblemending #sustainability #inkscapeart

🇮🇹➡️🇺🇸🇬🇧⬇️In primo piano si vede il progresso del rammendo della gonna; si vedono sul davanzale i fiori gialli delle piante grasse e sullo sfondo le case con i tetti investì da poco. In the foreground you can see the progress of the mending of the skirt; you can see on the windowsill the yellow flowers of the succulents and in the background the houses with the roofs recently snowy.

🇮🇹 Io #rammendo pensando alla primavera mentre fuori nevica sui fiori.
No vabbè!
🇬🇧🇺🇸 I’m #mending thinking on the spring and outside it’snowing on the flowers. 😖
#visiblemending

Lime green patch with green and pink stitching on olive green knit shirt.

Yellowish, orangeish, round wool patch with mostly green stitching covering a small hole on olive green knit top.

The mending fest continues. Thought I'd gotten both holes in this old @jjillstyle knot top, then I found a third this morning. Off to tackle that one now.

#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle

🇺🇸🇬🇧 A quick update on how the #mend of this skirt is going, from how it is to how it was. There's still a lot to do. #visiblemending #lovedclotheslast

🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧🇺🇸⬇️ Un grosso rammendo in una gonna. Si vedono i fili che ho usato per rinforzare tutta l’area usurata e che mi sono serviti da ordito per il rammendo dei vari buchi (la striscia fitta in basso). Il rammendo in rosso è l’inizio del rinforzo della cucitura. A big mend in a skirt. You can see the threads that I used to reinforce the entire worn area and that served me as a warp for the mendling of the various holes (the dense strip at the bottom). The red mending is the beginning of the seam reinforcement.

🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧🇺🇸⬇️ Si vedono i fili di ordito colorati e l’inizio del rammendo del buco più grande. You can see the coloured warps and the beginning of the mending of the largest hole.

🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧🇺🇸⬇️ Visione d’insieme del rammendo un paio di settimane fa. Overview of the mending a couple of weeks ago.

🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧🇺🇸⬇️ si vede il buco più grande, alcuni buco più piccoli alla stessa altezza e la cucitura usurata. You can see the bigger hole, some smaller holes at the same height and the worn seam.

🇮🇹Un veloce aggiornamento a come sta andando il #rammendo di questa gonna, da com’è a com’era. C’è ancora parecchio da fare. #visiblemending #lovedclotheslast

The center front of a “Baby Shark” button-up dress from Zuri, with two embroidered mends on either side of the placket. The fabric has a faded blue background covered with swarming reddish black fish with white eyes. The mend on the lower right (worn on the left) is a crooked little fish in a lighter and greener blue than the background, swimming in between two of the black fish. It’s the oldest mend. Maybe I should stitch the fish an eye? In the upper left, I made a little sea shell with blue and green thread.

A closeup of the lower skirt of the baby shark dress, where I covered a hole in the fabric with a starfish in blue, teal, and purple. This was my second mend, and I doodle-stitched it in several layers until I was reasonably happy with the result. The baby sharks on the dress were black when I got it, but repeated washing has worn away the dye so that they’re now dark purply red with a thick black outline.

A closer close up of the embroidered shell on the right upper chest (just to the left of the placket as viewed). I sewed it just after the starfish. The base of the shell is pale green, and the top is woven with a fan of pale green as the warp and light blue as the weft. The thread in all the mends is Wonderfil Spaghetti Thread that I bought for a math fashion project and will be using for years to come.

For some reason, someone (mouse?) keeps chewing little holes into this particular dress. So in between bouts of knitting 🧶, I’ve been improvising some vaguely coordinating mends. Trying to level up my embroidery skills, I guess.

#visiblemending #wonderfil

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A pair of blue and black toe socks on my wife's feet, their undersides kicked up into the air to be visible. Darned sections on the heels, the balls, and several toes create a riot of orange, green, red, yellow, blue, and white.

I set aside my embroidery this week to resume some darning.

The back of a pair of light denim shorts with three patches of colorful stitching: teal diagonal lines on the top right corner of the left pocket, purple x's to the left of the center seam, and a spiral of pink running stitches on the top left of the right pocket.

Extended single and double crochets in rows of variegated light purple and pink yarn and variegated red, orange, green, and blue yarn

Griddle stitch in a color blocked gradient from deep to light purple

Etched half doubles in light gray yarn

This week's (and the one left behind from last week) Finished Friday: a pair of visibly mended shorts and 6 crocheted blanket blocks (the other three are attached in the replies due to attachment constraints)

#VisibleMending #Crochet 🧶 (yarn ball emoji)

Visible mending "patches" of embroidery in blue and greens on a lime green sweater.

The mending fest continues. This is an ancient Old Navy sweater, very lime green. Love it, but it's got a number of holes in it. These are shoulder bends. On to the front!

#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #repairreuserecycle

I’ve avoided hand sewing for years because I’m not very neat. Thankful I’ve come across textile artists who advocate that it’s the process that’s important and neatness isn’t that important if you are enjoying sewing. Hurrah 🥳 #VisibleMending on my much loved cardi 🥰

A scrap fabric loom mosaic on an Uff Tada branded blue heart speech bubble background.

New newsletter & the first pop-up date added to the website 🎉 #CreativeRepair #VisibleMending #MN

A rectangular tin is open, and we can see inside that it has various sewing notions, including tiny scissors and a small container holding needles.

A black, rectangular tin that was previously labelled as Twinings tea, has a picture of a Walkers biscuit tin stuck on top of it with bits of tape across the corners. This is to properly identify it as a sewing tin.

Fixed it. Now people will know it’s a sewing tin.

#KnitSky #sewing #VisibleMending #CraftSky #australian 🧶

Older woman, red hair, with visible mending on 2 spots on shoulder and sleeve of her green sweater.

Photo of Kirkland Irish cream liqueur bottle.

Been busy with some more mending.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! ☘️☘️☘️

#mending #visiblemending #stitching #usewhatyouhave #stpatricksday☘️

I've mended my handbag, where the fake leather is flaking. The handles are covered with knitted pieces - stockinette stitch with JMCO and grafted together and the edging is mattress stitch embroidery.

#visiblemending #knitting

The butt of an inside out pair of jeans with a big ol’ hole it them.

The same pair of jeans with a black patch sewn behind and green embroidery thread around the patch and in rows across the entire mended area. The stitches are a bit clumsy and the mend is a big area but it looks sturdy and nice enough.

Attempting to save some jeans by actually following instructions in a book. I’m ok with it. Don’t love it, don’t hate it. It was definitely good practice.

#sewing #visibleMending #textiles

An indicator that I’m feeling more like myself. Darned a hole in the lads vintage Levi jeans. Had they been my jeans the darn would’ve been totally contrasting but I’ve tried to blend it in…..a bit #VisibleMending

Embroidered orange, yellow, and pink flowers connected by vines and decorated with leaves on a pink fabric. The lower part of the embroidery is still on the hoop. The embroidery is just lazy daisies, french knots, and fishbone leaves.

I put a scrap of red jersey fabric behind the shirt to give me something to embroider on and you can still see the red peaking through in places.

"In progress" photo shows the big hole Windsor stitched up herself. I left her work in place and just ran a vine stem along it.

Windsor's shirt got ripped while playing. She attempted to stitch it up herself first, then asked for help.
I'd like to note that I have no idea where she got the needle or thread. My children are becoming people who just know how to fix things! #embroidery #visibleMending