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."
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/larry-schug-mending-mittens.html
Hitomezashi sashiko cuts the surface into a tiling that can always be colored with exactly two colors so that the two colors never touch. My first round of stitches are large, so I filled in half of the space with tiny cross stitches in navy blue. This highlights the two-coloring of the tiling. (Yes, there’s a mistake in the geometry, but it’s working perfectly as a patch.) The fabric for the patch is a vintage piece of woven silk, from a collection of a seller’s samples, and I used the pattern woven into the silk as the grid for my stitches. This is now a patch on a pair of old bluejeans to give them new life. #mathart #visiblemending #sewing
My work for the next days: Sewing this flowers and butterflies (there ist batting underneath each, glued with textile glue) with ladder stitch all around the edges on the bought pillow case (80 x 80 cm). After this it is quilting time. 
(Not everything is my colour palette/pattern, but it's especially requested by my kid. I sew a relatively simple quilt blanket out of big blocks in rainbow colours last year for my child and will also appliqué butterflies and my beloved rainbow-flowers on this.)
#handsewing #nähen #sewing #handnähen #slowStitching #quilt #quilting #slowCrafting #Handarbeit #NähenVonHand #SewingForKids #Handarbeiten #quilten #nähenFürKinder #EPP #Hexies #Hexagon #EnglishPaperPiecing
I caved last night and joined the Cashmerette Club, given that they have a very good offer on it at the moment. If you sew and you have curves, it is worth joining... if you can put up with PDF patterns, that is. I've never used them before, but I can't print them at home and I suspected they might be a false economy because I'd have to pay to get them printed at a copy shop.
Well, actually, it's not that bad. I picked up six free patterns and one that I paid for (total £18), and had four of them printed (total about £32 including P&P)... so it probably comes to about the same. Except you get better paper!
Loved the costumes they made for Ncuti Gatwa (from Dr Who) in his run in The Importance of being Ernest.
#costume #sewing #drama #NcutiGatwa
Continuing down the road of #throwback plushies with everyone’s favourite #cryptid : MOTHMAN!
This one was tricky, the wings took AGES to embroider, and I had to fully restart one of them. But I think it looks really cool!
The thing that really keeps me from wanting to use print at home sewing patterns is the effort of assembling the print outs. Is there a better way to do this? #sewing
Today I learned to sew a button on a pair of jeans, properly.
Sure I can research it online but I find the internet overwhelming for this sort of thing. And here, I can learn from my mother and hear all the tricks and habits she picked up along her sewing life.
Later, I'll learn to repair a broken seam. I have done it but always very messily and never very well.
Another #throwback to another plushie I made two years ago with this little Nessie!
I’m really proud of this design with its nice mossy green, simple embroidery and red highlights. It was adopted instantly!
Quickly slapped on wig, lipstick, scarf and hat to document it this much at least! It's way too warm in my living room for this. 
I may have done multiple more little dances in addition to this one here!
Oh wow, I think I finished the jacket. Attached the bodice lining to the sleeve lining and... That was it, I think. There's nothing left but pressing the ever living heck out of it and maybe documenting it somehow, but... Jacket done? 
@accidentalciso for getting out to more target audience for the scam warning: https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/31498-bbb-scam-alert-how-to-spot-a-fake-going-out-of-business-sale @knitting @sewing @fibrearts @fiberarts
Michelle May (aka The Giddy Stitcher) makes videos about lots of different crafts including cross-stitch, sewing, crochet, knitting and many others. You can follow at:
There are already 70 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/michellemay/videos
You can also follow her general social media account at @thegiddystitcher
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
My partner wants to share a sewing pattern on the internet somewhere. She's not trying to sell it, just have it in a place where people can get it. Is there a thingiverse/printables type place for sewing stuff (that is also free to post things on, and is also not "run your own website")?
things that are not this:
- freesewing.org (neat, but does not appear to be a place intended for people to upload their own things)
- artisans.coop, etsy, other similar sites (these are storefronts, she literally just wants to share a file, the same thing 3d printing people do with thingiverse)
- a git forge (I... guess you *could* do that? is that a thing people do in practice?)
Have been doing little slow tasks about the #1890sCheckJacket and have just now realised I want to do them differently, and need to undo almost everything I've done today. Ah well, should be a tiny bit easier to do again since I already know what works, I guess?
My regular rewatch of The Matrix has just concluded, and I need to tell you that sewing has ruined me! (again)
Now I can't unsee that all suit jackets in the movie have yellow linings (unusual!) and that includes the suit jacket Neo wears during his day in the office.
I don't know if there's any symbolic meaning to this, but it sure looks great.
