Creative mending

Visible mending has been growing in popularity over the past few years. Who doesn't enjoy being able to repair a garment they love to give it a new life?! A someone who dislikes clothes shopping, I am all for making the clothes I have last as long as possible. Not only does visible mending renew your clothes, it also give them a fresh new look.

Practical Embroidery : Hand embroidery for mending. Decorative mending techniques and stitches : Embroidery for mending

When I was in St. Louis a few weeks back, my husband and I had brunch with a friend at the most delightful restaurant called Tree House. It's a vegetarian restaurant and the food is amazing. If you are ever in St. Louis, by all means, make your way over for a meal. You won't be disappointed. Our waitress that morning was so delightful, and as it turns out, quite creative. She loves taking old pieces and giving them new life. She was wearing a vintage silk top that had a hole in it when she…

Creative visible mending projects, darning and Swiss daring, and creative mending techniques.

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.

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Learn how to mend clothing with these creative sewing techniques. Here, we cover how to sew a hole, mend a seam, and more with visible mending.

Sashiko mending is a form of functional embroidery that originated from Japan. It was initially done to repair tears or rips in clothes and has now become an art form. Here’s how you can mend your ripped jeans using Sashiko.

Discover our bespoke Visible Mending Knitwear service, that will help breathe new life into your old jumpers and cardigans. Find out more now!

Advice for visible mending, including how to make sure you're using the right needle, how to choose colours for visible mending, and how to know if a garment or darning yarn will be durable. This is one of several blogs answering your mending and knitwear repair questions

Darning used to be the practise of mending a hole in a garment by carefully stitching colour matching interwoven yarns across each other so that the darning blended into the fabric and becomes almost invisible. ⁣ ⁣ I have recently come across the concept of 'visible mending'. A creative and interesting way of mending clothing. The resulting artwork can make you fall in love with an item of clothing again, wearing your beautiful darn as a badge of honour and extending the life of your…

Learn how to fix your clothes in a unique and fun way with our visible mending tutorial. Start upcycling your wardrobe with Gathered.

Upcycling and organising are among the ways fashionistas are giving their wardrobes a longer life. Bel Jacobs explores how caring for our clothes also means caring for the planet.

Learn Visible Mending for knitwear with a how-to book, mending workshops, tutorials and kits. Start repairing your knitwear with our helpful materials and darning wool.

I used sashiko-like stitching to hem a pair of thrifted jeans. The inseam now fits better and the jeans have a “visible mending” aesthetic.

Working in the style of Japanese Boro mending with upcycled patches, I created a large visible mend that becomes the focal point of this thrifted denim shirt, thereby highlighting its age, worn nat…