Visible Mending
Featuring: cornflower mends, woven mends, grafting/kitchener stitch, afterthought slipstitch heels, stick & stitch, interfacing, stabilizing jersey fabrics, satin stitch motifs, sashiko mending, and machine denim replication
my pride and joy - decade old socks with 53 mends on them!
A tear in a store-bought knit sweater was repaired by grafting with similarly colored embroidery floss
Replacing the heels with reinforced ones on some old knit socks
The replaced reinforced heels with the patches on the balls of the feet
a woven mend in action
Sashiko Mending on a worn out denim pocket
a flower covering a hole in kid's pants, made with old stretchy t-shirt fabric as the interfacing, stick & stitch, and embroidery thread
A woven mend that was free-handed using the four colors of the stars on the sweater
Sashiko mended denim knees in the shape of a yarn ball and needles
Another angle of the yarn and needles Sashiko mend
a machine-reinforced denim mend on some black pants where the inner thighs gave out
patching a small tear in heavy-duty work pants
Machine-stitched interfaced reinforcement where a denim belt-loop had torn loose
swiss mending on a cowl
crocodile socks that needed a little bandaid!
Woven patch mends on a hand knit wool sock
Patching a small tear in an heirloom quilt