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Question for those who sew... I have some flannel pajama bottoms with an opening at the front that I want to close up. There is doubled-up cloth there, like where a zipper would go, but no zipper.

What type of stitch would you use to close this?

My mending is very un-trained and mostly visible sock darning or reattaching buttons. But this seems like there should be a proper stitch type to learn for sealing two overlapping flaps of cloth neatly.

What can you help mend? Excerpt from
"Mending Mittens" by Larry Schug:

"Blessed be those who are forever fixing
the tear between people and the rest of life.
May we all have enough thread,
may our needles be sharp,
may our fingers not throb or go numb."

ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/l

www.ayearofbeinghere.comLarry Schug: "Mending Mittens"A collection of daily mindfulness poems, composed primarily by contemporary and recent poets of the here & now.
#poetry#poem#poems

one year ago i was asked to participate in a crafters interview which didn’t get published. i was recently reminded of it as i remembered mentioning i was working on restoring a blanket.

thought i’d look it up today and decided to just publish it on my own, rounding it up with more thoughts on the blanket mending process.

fun fact! i discovered i submitted the interview and finished my blanket on the exact same day, one year apart!

launshae.com/blog/an-interview

Replied to anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

🧵By #mending a cotton t-shirt instead of replacing it, you could help to save over 7.5kg in #CO2e. That would be equivalent to ironing for over 25 hours.

The days of being told that #repair isn't an important part of a garment's life cycle are gone. I hope this will also lead to a change in the way that repair is perceived in our society; as a skilled and valuable #craft that deserves to be invested in and as a powerful environmental and political act.

🪡🪡🪡

Repairing Our Clothes 🧵

Thanks to the latest WRAP report (Feb 2025) we finally have some statistics about how choosing to #repair our #clothes and buying #SecondHand is having an impact.

A few key points >>>

🪡 #Repairing our clothes has been shown to displace the need for buying new items by 82%.

This shows that we’re placing value on the pieces already in our wardrobes, showing the #BigCompanies that we don’t want to keep replacing items,

🪡

Maanantai käsityökerho — Monday Craft Club 🧵☕

Dodon toimistolla kokoontuu maanantaisin ryhmä korjaamaan ja luomaan yhdessä! Käsityökerhossa keskitytään tekstiilien korjaukseen, mutta opitaan myös esimerkiksi luonnonvärjäystekniikoista. 🧵☕

Työpajalla ei ole vetäjää, vaan tarkoituksena on harjoitella yhdessä. Tervetuloa mukaan, jos olet kiinnostunut huoltamaan tekstiilejä ja kaipaat ystävällistä yhteisöä korjailun ympärille! 🧵☕

17.3. tehdään punasipulikeittoa, tuo mukanasi punasipulin kuoria värjäystä varten jos sinulta löytyy! 🧵☕

Ma 17.3., 21.3., 31.3. jne. klo 17.00-20.00
Dodon toimisto, Veturitallinkuja 33, G-rappu, pohjakerros, Helsinki.

Huom, rakennustyömaan vuoksi Veturitallinkujalle pääsee vain Veturitietä pitkin etelästä, tarkemmat saapumisohjeet esteettömyystiedoissa. (ks. bio)

Kuvat käsityökerhon osallistujien töistä.
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There is a group of people meeting every Monday at Dodo's office to mend and create together! This group is mainly interested in textile mending, but will also learn for example about natural dying techniques. 🧵☕

The group doesn't have a workshop leader, the idea is to learn together. Anyone who is interested in taking care of their textiles and joining a supporting and friendly community is welcome to join! 🧵☕

17.3. there is red onion soup! Bring red onion peels for colouring if you have! 🧵☕

Mon 24th of February, 3rd and 10th of March and so on, at 17:00–20:00
Dodo’s office, Veturitallinkuja 33, G-entrance, ground floor, Helsinki.

Please note, due to a construction site, Veturitallinkuja can only be accessed from the south via Veturitie, for more detailed arrival instructions see the accessibility information in bio.

Pictures: Works of participants of the Craft Club

#craftclub #upcycling #mending #kääntöpöytä #käsityökerho

Anyone have a guide on how to identify well-made clothes? I was taught long ago, but I've forgotten the specifics and would not describe it well.

The reason I ask is that cheap clothes are usually much harder to mend. The allowances are small, there are no extra buttons, the materials barely hold a stitch, it all kind of wears out at once.

Better made stuff has enough *there* there to put it back together.

(Bernadette Banner's vid has been linked a number of times, thanks!)

Since I’m boycotting Amazon this week, I finally started tackling my mending pile.

First up, socks. I’m a little embarrassed that I’ve reached the age of 50-something and I’ve never darned a sock before. Anyway, here it is, my first darned sock!

I’m going to start using the hashtag #MendDontSpend

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!