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**Sini Tuulia** @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 17h

Sini Tuulia @sinituulia@eldritch.cafe

When you've mended the same threadbare but still serviceable thing so many times you need to do it colourful, for morale. Terrible photo, but I already put the damn thing away and can't be bothered to dig it up again!

A photo of a blue and teal flower fabric piece used to patch up the edge of an amorphous bit of soft black fabric. It has been whipstitched along its edges with variegated embroidery thread, and topstitched with machine zigzag in two rectangles along the inside. The threads go through the colour gradient of red, magenta, purple, blue and teal. The threads stand out nicely from the dark fabrics, and look deliberate enough. It's all on an ironing board. Sini's pale fingers in the frame, trying to persuade the camera to figure out what the white balance needs to be. The photo is not entirely sharp.

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#Mending #VisibleMending

**Megan** @PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca · 2d

Megan @PapyrusBrigade@mstdn.ca

More visible mending

My old lumber jacket is fraying along the sleeve seams, collar and cuffs.

Here's one sleeve done. I laid a long scrap of monk cloth along the seam of one sleeve, and embroidered it on with various coloured lines, mostly in cross stitch.

2 sleeves of a red and green plaid jacket. Sleeve on the left is worn along the seam, with stiffing poking through. Sleeve on the right has been reinforced with cream fabric with lines cross-stitched on top.

Cuffs of both sleeves are still frayed.

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**Climate Jenny 2.1** @ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social · 2d

Climate Jenny 2.1 @ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social

My dh’s grandparents ran a country store in a little grain elevator town in the 1930s. He just brought this back for me, and it’s presumably from that store. I’ve got a very nice assortment of thread here! #sewing #visibleMending

Large oak (?) box with three drawers, two of which show a rainbow array of spools of thread. The bottom draw is embellished with “Belding’s Silk” in gold letters.

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Opening the thread drawer to see multiple spools ranging from pink and purple to yellow, gold, and orange. They are all shiny and bright despite being almost a century old.

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Wooden spool of purple thread. “Fast to boiling.” 25 cents. 1936.

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**Steggy** @steggy@sunny.garden · 3d

Steggy @steggy@sunny.garden

Doing a bunch of sock darning today

Three different wool socks. A grey sock with blue darning, a light blue sock with blue darning and an orange sock with a hole that will be darned later.

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#visiblemending #MendDontSpend

**marthasterias** @marthasterias@mastodon.green · 3d

marthasterias @marthasterias@mastodon.green

Finished mending a bag today.
It's an original late 90s messenger bag which has seen 6 continents, the Arctic and the Subantarctic... And countless countries with me.
It took 8 washes to get it clean enough for the washing machine, washing out decades of accumulated dust from around the world, and memories from another life.
Then a few hours of mending torn places. Ready for the next 25 years.

A dark blue, washed out small messenger bag on a wooden floor. The image shows the back of the bag, where woven mended patches in shades of blue and white stretch across the edges of the bag.

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#VisibleMending #sustainability #Travelbag

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**Mx. Luna Corbden** @corbden@defcon.social · 4d

Mx. Luna Corbden @corbden@defcon.social

Still haven't done it yet, but soon.

#VisibleMending #SolarpunkSunday #solarpunk

**Gwen Fisher** @gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz · 4d

Gwen Fisher @gwenbeads@mathstodon.xyz

New sashiko patch stitched with three sets of parallel rows of running stitch. This should give these jeans a few more washings before they fall apart, I hope. The fabric is starting to fail in a few places. So this might be the beginning of the end. Even still, I have to do what I can to try to make them last.

This statement is about more than blue jeans.

Rectangle of stitching on denim fabric. The patch is on the inside, so you can’t see it. The sashiko stitching is on the outside and makes a repeating pattern of elongated Xs.

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#embroidery #mathart #visiblemending

**Alyn** @alyn@wandering.shop · 4d *

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Alyn @alyn@wandering.shop

Went to #Iceland in 2019, and bought a pair of woolen socks from a tiny craft stall in the #Vestfjörður. After a few years they wore out. Being knitted, not nålbinded they started to unravel. I finally got around to making my 1st repair attempt today with some WYS wool I had bought for my #nalbinding. I'm hoping that using the pure wool will allow the repairs to felt together over time. It's probably obvious, but the left one is the 1st attempt.
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#VisibleMending #FibreCraft #Wool

A pair of socks on some wooded planks. The socks are woolen knitted items, yellow wool from ankle to calf and orange wool from ankle to toe.
At the point on each sock where the ball of the big toe would rub is a relatively poor attempt at repair made using an orangy-brown wool stitched around the outside of each hole and then woven back and forth inside the holed area.
Who knows how long the repair will last, but the socks are wearable today at least!

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**0gust1** @0gust1@merveilles.town · 5d

0gust1 @0gust1@merveilles.town

I’ve just mended a well loved (and worn) merino alpine technical hoodie (holes and failing seams), with red sashiko thread and old wool socks (themselves with holes beyond repair).

It took me some time to remember how to properly do the « blanket stitch » :) but it was the right choice (elasticity, edge management, aesthetics).

Pretty pleased with the result, we’ll see how it holds!

A blue, hooded jacket laid flat on a wooden floor. The jacket features red patches with contrasting stitching and zippered pockets. The texture appears smooth with subtle stripes.

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#mending #visibleMending #sashiko

**Fruity Mercury** @EchteNachtraaf@mastodon.social · 5d *

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Fruity Mercury @EchteNachtraaf@mastodon.social

First attempt at what is called "visible mending"

Might add some extra thread to the one on top, I kinda ran out near the end and didn't feel like doing more last night.

A piece of densely woven black fabric (belongs to a handbag but that's not well visible in the picture) with a zipper on top.
There are two pinkish-red embroidered hearts that each cover a small hole in the fabric.

There's also a scarf in the background at the top of the picture because I just put this down anywhere to have good lighting

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#VisibleMending #repair #repairreuserecycle

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**Abie** @temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe · Mar 7 *

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Abie @temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe

J'ai ravaudé mon jean au taf comme j'ai pu sans l'enlever, juste pour que ça ne se fende pas plus, et ce soir j'ai fait ça.
#visiblemending

Réparation d'une fente verticake sur le devant d'un jean, juste sous un passant, avec des petits points et un ruban noir pour cacher la déchirure

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Verso, avec une pièce en lin rouge et le revers des petits points.
C'est fait main et pas super joli

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**Hrafn van Es (Ravi) they/he** @Ravimakes@pixelfed.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Hrafn van Es (Ravi) they/he @Ravimakes@pixelfed.social

Socks needed mending again, they're getting more colourful with every mend!

#mending #visiblemending #mendingmatters #repair #slowfashion #repairwhatyouwear #sustainability #slowstitching #mendingclothes #stitchdontditch #repareren #kledingreparatie #duurzaam #duurzaamheid #verstellen #sokkenstoppen

#sokkenstoppen

**Gammapeak** @gammapeak@sauropods.win · Mar 4

Mar 4

Gammapeak @gammapeak@sauropods.win

These jeans are wearing very thin and starting to disintegrate in a few areas, which is to be expected since they were basic jeans bought from Asda and have seen years of hard use. It makes absolutely no economic sense to continue repairing them (of course I'm going to patch them anyway)

A pair of jeans with 3 very visible patched areas and colourful pocket edge bindings. There is a visible tear and some smaller holes on other worn parts of the front.

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**Hrafn van Es (Ravi) they/he** @Ravimakes@pixelfed.social · Mar 3

Mar 3

Hrafn van Es (Ravi) they/he @Ravimakes@pixelfed.social

I bought these jeans secondhand and thought I'd just mend the holes, turns out the fabric was kind of weak so I ended up spending lots of hours stitching... I like how it turned out though...

#naaien

**Chiara Chiarel** @ChiaraChiarel@piaille.fr · Mar 3

Mar 3

Chiara Chiarel @ChiaraChiarel@piaille.fr

La salopette de Thésée, work in progress
#VisibleMending

Ma vieille salopette toute rapiécée. Il y a des réparations tissées, des pièces en tissu, des parties rebrodees

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**Sara** @sarae@ecoevo.social · Mar 2 *

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Sara @sarae@ecoevo.social

there's definitely a fabric weight below which this is not a practical technique, and I have not figured out a good way to mend for example base layer merino shirts

it's also not a technique that works for stretched-out bits like elbows

buy big appliques, then it looks like a statement rather than a fuckup

oh and try to stick them on there so they kind of frame your boobs, if you're a person with boobs

#VisibleMending

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**Sara** @sarae@ecoevo.social · Mar 2

Mar 2

Sara @sarae@ecoevo.social

my sewing notes on this: it's a HUGE help if you've got iron-on appliques, then you resolve most issues with the fabric stretching during the ironing process (which you have more control over because you can keep your workpiece flat on the ironing board)

#VisibleMending