Reattaching a Strap - How to Mend Your Clothes While Self-Isolating Series: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes

Ever have one of those moments where your dress strap breaks? I had it happen with a jumpsuit once with no safety pins in sight. I used a hair-tie to attempt to hold my jumpsuit up during a night of dancing at a club while I was out with friends in India. Sometimes fixing a strap is as easy as hand or machine sewing a few stitches back and forth, but in this case, my friend’s dress lost a small piece of fabric that had attached the strap to the back of the dress, so I’ll have to improvise a solution. Don’t be afraid to get crafty!

How to Reattach a Strap

For this dress, I don’t have any fabric or thread that matches the main color of it, but I do have some embroidery thread that matches the flowers that are on the fabric.

1) To start, knot your thread and hide your thread tail if the lining and face of your garment are open the way this dress is. If not, just stitch through the inside of your garment and try to have your needle come up at the seam.
2) Loop the thread through the fabric and little circle attached to the strap, building a makeshift loom. Once you feel that it is secure enough and matches the width of the other strap, start to weave your needle horizontally through the threads, trying to alternate up/down every other thread and keeping it tight. 
4) When you’ve completed weaving your threads, use the same knotting technique previously mentioned to grab a couple threads (from your woven area this time!) and wrap your needle, pulling through to anchor it. Good as new for this light dress!

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