I’m starting a new series here on my blog, “The Monday Mend” which I hope will help me catch up with all the mending that I wasn’t able to do during Mend March. As stated in the title, Monday’s the day I’ll be posting my latest mends. All mending posts will now be published on Mondays.
For my first post in this series, I’m showing a mend of a well worn and well liked knit tee. It’s long sleeve, and had developed a hole in the the underarm. I’ve worn this shirt a lot, and the fabric in that part of the shirt has gotten pretty thin, but I still like it and feel that mending can extend it’s wearable life.
I needed a way to secure the area in order to mend it. I don’t have a mending loom, but I do have an embroidery hoop, so I set it up on that and cast on some warp threads:
I didn’t have that exact purple color thread, so I used the closest I could find, a plum color, which matched pretty well.
I then began the weft and continued the mend:
When I finished the mend of the torn area, I had some extra thread left. I used that to shore up some of the thin fabric just north of the mend:
And that’s my Monday Mend! The shirt is fixed and in better condition now, and I’m happy that I preserved it for a little longer.
When we have clothes that are torn, they either get thrown out or sit unworn in need of fixing. I really enjoy the feeling of seeing the garment repaired. It gets the item out of what I call the “circulation limbo” that torn clothes often end up in, where they’re not yet thrown away because repairable, but not wearable until mended. It restores the garment’s useful life, which I think is sew important, especially if the garment has sentimental value.
See you on the next Monday Mend 🙂
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