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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱<a href="https://pixey.org/bammerlaan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bammerlaan@pixey.org</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sewing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sewing</a> Tagging <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/hitomezashi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hitomezashi</a> made me find out about <a href="https://beige.party/@HitomezashiBot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HitomezashiBot</a>. How cool! I'd seen their website before but I didn't know they were on Mastodon, too. Hitomezashi patterns can be randomly generated like this, but that does make actually putting them on fabric harder, I'm thinking! <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sashiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sashiko</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a>.

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱<a href="https://pixey.org/bammerlaan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bammerlaan@pixey.org</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sewing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sewing</a> Further process pictures of the thrilling development of this <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sashiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sashiko</a> patch pocket. Doing this on the train to and from a Groningen concert turned out to be a good activity. The back of <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/hitomezashi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hitomezashi</a> sashiko is supposed to look as neat as the front, with the excess thread tucked between two layers of fabric. I don't have two layers of fabric, but you'll only see the front, anyway. So 🤷<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/mending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embroidery</a>

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱<a href="https://pixey.org/bammerlaan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bammerlaan@pixey.org</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sewing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sewing</a> A little progress pic of the <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sashiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sashiko</a> pattern. Going for a hitomezashi pattern, a specific type of sashiko. See for an explanation: <a href="https://www.athreadedneedle.com/blogs/blogs/what-is-hitomezashi-and-how-to-do-it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.athreadedneedle.com/blogs/blogs/what-is-hitomezashi-and-how-to-do-it</a><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embroidery</a>

Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱A birthday present I got. I wanted a stencil for <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/sashiko?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sashiko</a>. (I'm bad at drawing grids, especially on fabric.) This was what I got—the local sewing shop apparently recommended it. You use a hot needle to poke holes into the plastic, then I pinned it to my fabric and used a heat-erase pen to draw dots. I started out going row by row but then thought of a different strategy, as I'm connecting the dots with a ruler, anyway. Promising results, so far! Though the hot needle poking part was a bit tedious. <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/sewing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/diy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diy</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/visiblemending?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a> <a href="https://pixey.org/discover/tags/embroidery?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embroidery</a> <a class="u-url" href="https://pixey.org/@sewing@a.gup.pe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sewing@a.gup.pe</a>

Sini TuuliaHave been smoothing my wrinkled brain by doing a little bit of elaborate mending. The ratio of patch to original garment on this old skirt continues being in flux! Just slapped on offcuts of the hat facing fabric, went around with machine stitching, and attached floppy bits with hand embroidery.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Mending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mending</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaA little bit earlier today, this second hand shirt took a couple more steps towards being more patch than shirt... But it's a good shirt! It's amazing how much more worn the right sleeve is, what do I even do to cause it??<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Linen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linen</a>

Al ⁂Years of kids putting their feet on the arm of the couch wore the edge out. Nothing you can’t fix with a needle and thread. We still have some patches to make in the seat leather but that’s another project.The cushion in the background is made from a reused woollen blanket.<a href="https://sunbeam.city/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a>

Lisa 🦔Successful <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/visibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visibleMending</a> day here! My best little terrierist (Puck) likes to dig when he nests himself into a cozy spot. And his favourite cozy spots are my spots whenever I get up. So my favourite reading chair had the fabric full worn through on the seat. No problem! I got a scrap of off-white denim in a thrifted fabric bundle recently that wasn’t large enough for anything other than patches. So I cut some random long lead shapes and sewed them on with a feather stitch using up random colours of thread spools that were nearly empty. The extra patches that I didn’t need this time, I simply bundled up and tucked them inside the cushion cover* on the underside so they would be available whenever Puck inevitable strikes again.Voila! Zero waste repair that keeps an otherwise great piece of furniture out of the landfill and uses up scraps that would otherwise be thrown away. *sofa cushions: not just for hiding pharmaceuticals and funds!

Petra van Cronenburg<a href="https://biodiversity.social/@ClimateJenny" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ClimateJenny</a> That's a very good analogy for the stitching! First I lay the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scraps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scraps</a> like a paper or mixedmedia <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collage</a> (I started with paper art journals where I also embroidered things). For the children's workshops in our cultural heritage centre I carry always a treasure box with scraps for their collages, they adore to discover the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fabrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fabrics</a>. You can use these scraps for many differerent collages and even for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>: <a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/112388636976839421" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/112388636976839421</a>The stitching: I became a member in an 1/

Gwen FisherHitomezashi 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. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathart</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a>

Sini TuuliaWhen you've mended the same threadbare but still serviceable thing so many times you need to do it colourful, for morale. Terrible photo, but I already put the damn thing away and can't be bothered to dig it up again! 😆 <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Mending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mending</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>

MeganMore visible mendingMy old lumber jacket is fraying along the sleeve seams, collar and cuffs.Here's one sleeve done. I laid a long scrap of monk cloth along the seam of one sleeve, and embroidered it on with various coloured lines, mostly in cross stitch. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>

Climate Jenny 2.1My dh’s grandparents ran a country store in a little grain elevator town in the 1930s. He just brought this back for me, and it’s presumably from that store. I’ve got a very nice assortment of thread here! <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sewing</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/visibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visibleMending</a>

Mx. Luna CorbdenStill haven't done it yet, but soon.<a href="https://defcon.social/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/SolarpunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarpunkSunday</a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarpunk</a>

Gwen FisherNew sashiko patch stitched with three sets of parallel rows of running stitch. This should give these jeans a few more washings before they fall apart, I hope. The fabric is starting to fail in a few places. So this might be the beginning of the end. Even still, I have to do what I can to try to make them last. This statement is about more than blue jeans. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#embroidery</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mathart</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/visiblemending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a>

0gust1I’ve just mended a well loved (and worn) merino alpine technical hoodie (holes and failing seams), with red sashiko thread and old wool socks (themselves with holes beyond repair).It took me some time to remember how to properly do the « blanket stitch » :) but it was the right choice (elasticity, edge management, aesthetics).Pretty pleased with the result, we’ll see how it holds!<a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/mending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mending</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/visibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visibleMending</a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/sashiko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sashiko</a>

Hrafn van Es (Ravi) they/heSocks needed mending again, they're getting more colourful with every mend! 🪡 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mending?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mending</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/visiblemending?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#visiblemending</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mendingmatters?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mendingmatters</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/repair?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repair</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/slowfashion?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slowfashion</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/repairwhatyouwear?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repairwhatyouwear</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sustainability?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/slowstitching?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slowstitching</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mendingclothes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mendingclothes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/stitchdontditch?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stitchdontditch</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/repareren?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repareren</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/kledingreparatie?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kledingreparatie</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/duurzaam?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duurzaam</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/duurzaamheid?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#duurzaamheid</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/verstellen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#verstellen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sokkenstoppen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sokkenstoppen</a>

GammapeakThese jeans are wearing very thin and starting to disintegrate in a few areas, which is to be expected since they were basic jeans bought from Asda and have seen years of hard use. It makes absolutely no economic sense to continue repairing them (of course I'm going to patch them anyway)<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>

Chiara ChiarelLa salopette de Thésée, work in progress <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>

Sarathere's definitely a fabric weight below which this is not a practical technique, and I have not figured out a good way to mend for example base layer merino shirtsit's also not a technique that works for stretched-out bits like elbowsbuy big appliques, then it looks like a statement rather than a fuckupoh and try to stick them on there so they kind of frame your boobs, if you're a person with boobs<a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/VisibleMending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VisibleMending</a>

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