OOOh love that blanket!! well done on the repair. We stay once a year at a beautiful country town...Stanthorpe about 4 hours west of us in Qld in a lovely cottage. The lady who owns it had some lovely family heirlooms crocheted blankets which this year when we went all had damage to them. So I replaced them with crocheted blankets I had made and I took hers home and repaired them all for her... I managed to match the yarn ( colours from 1950's & 60's!!) and I met up with her for coffee and gave them back to her. I had washed them carefully and you could barely see the repair... she was sooo grateful for new blankets for the cottage and she could keep her heirlooms at home now safe!
This is something I need to learn and work on at some point as I definitely have blankets I made for the children or us that develop holes, probably due to still not being 100% confident with what I’m doing with my ends, and so they’ve come loose and unraveled. I would also love to learn how to actually mend clothes for more than just missing buttons, so things can live on a bit longer
I am definitely on team mend. I am intrigued by the little mending looms that I have seen on Instagram. I need to look up the mending mushroom some commented on too.
One of the things that I will be bringing home with me, on my next trip to my Dad's, is a blanket my Mom started for my sister many many years ago. It became a family joke that Mom never was going to finish it. Since she can't now, I plan on finishing it as a surprise for my sister.
Lovely blanket. I am a mender. I mend my work clothes and I also wear holey pajamas until they are no longer fit for use. I feel like it is my way of combating the fast fashion industry. I am not a great sewist but I can stitch a hole closed.
I gifted a friend a pair of socks a looong time ago. At first he did not want to wear them, because he thought they were too beautiful and they would wear out. I told him that I didn't knit socks for him to lay around but to be used. So he did start using them.
Just recently he gave them back to me with a polite request to mend them. Honestly - I think there were more holes than sock left. I mended them anyway trying different mending techniques and it was really fun. While mending I thought he deserved another pair of socks which is now my current scrappy sock project. Such a knitworthy and mendworthy person!
I do mend lots of clothes, including hand crafted ones, but also generally everything that's not too destroyed and still worn often.
As nearly every damage is different, I just "learn" how to mend it as I go when it's time; I don't dedicate extra time to learning skills.
In case it's a difficult knit or crochet, I might just look up videos or other instructions. Most of the time, it will even work out without research eventually.
Mmmm takes me a while to get round to it. That crochet blanket reminded me of one I made my parents, where the ends were not perhaps sewn in so well, or it was well used🤷🏻♀️ Mum unpicked it, and made new squares and stripes blanket. You said it on an old video - twice the fun when you unpick and make it again.
I have to say, I'm brilliant with mending. My family is to frugal to buy new, when you can fix it. I enjoy to care for my makes, you invest a lot. You choose the yarn, buy a patern, countless hours to make so I put the effort to mend
OOOh love that blanket!! well done on the repair. We stay once a year at a beautiful country town...Stanthorpe about 4 hours west of us in Qld in a lovely cottage. The lady who owns it had some lovely family heirlooms crocheted blankets which this year when we went all had damage to them. So I replaced them with crocheted blankets I had made and I took hers home and repaired them all for her... I managed to match the yarn ( colours from 1950's & 60's!!) and I met up with her for coffee and gave them back to her. I had washed them carefully and you could barely see the repair... she was sooo grateful for new blankets for the cottage and she could keep her heirlooms at home now safe!
This is something I need to learn and work on at some point as I definitely have blankets I made for the children or us that develop holes, probably due to still not being 100% confident with what I’m doing with my ends, and so they’ve come loose and unraveled. I would also love to learn how to actually mend clothes for more than just missing buttons, so things can live on a bit longer
I am definitely on team mend. I am intrigued by the little mending looms that I have seen on Instagram. I need to look up the mending mushroom some commented on too.
One of the things that I will be bringing home with me, on my next trip to my Dad's, is a blanket my Mom started for my sister many many years ago. It became a family joke that Mom never was going to finish it. Since she can't now, I plan on finishing it as a surprise for my sister.
Lovely blanket. I am a mender. I mend my work clothes and I also wear holey pajamas until they are no longer fit for use. I feel like it is my way of combating the fast fashion industry. I am not a great sewist but I can stitch a hole closed.
I gifted a friend a pair of socks a looong time ago. At first he did not want to wear them, because he thought they were too beautiful and they would wear out. I told him that I didn't knit socks for him to lay around but to be used. So he did start using them.
Just recently he gave them back to me with a polite request to mend them. Honestly - I think there were more holes than sock left. I mended them anyway trying different mending techniques and it was really fun. While mending I thought he deserved another pair of socks which is now my current scrappy sock project. Such a knitworthy and mendworthy person!
I've always wanted to darn socks with greater skill. I'm sure with more practice I'll get better!
I do mend lots of clothes, including hand crafted ones, but also generally everything that's not too destroyed and still worn often.
As nearly every damage is different, I just "learn" how to mend it as I go when it's time; I don't dedicate extra time to learning skills.
In case it's a difficult knit or crochet, I might just look up videos or other instructions. Most of the time, it will even work out without research eventually.
Mmmm takes me a while to get round to it. That crochet blanket reminded me of one I made my parents, where the ends were not perhaps sewn in so well, or it was well used🤷🏻♀️ Mum unpicked it, and made new squares and stripes blanket. You said it on an old video - twice the fun when you unpick and make it again.
I belong to a group here in America called Loose Ends Finishers. You can read about it here https://www.looseendsproject.org
My husband loves to mend socks! I bought him a beautiful darning mushroom. I make them, he mends them, dream team!
I have to say, I'm brilliant with mending. My family is to frugal to buy new, when you can fix it. I enjoy to care for my makes, you invest a lot. You choose the yarn, buy a patern, countless hours to make so I put the effort to mend