Visible Mending - How to Mend Your Clothes While Self-Isolating Series: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes5/28/2020  Visible mending is a trend and technique that can be applied to most anything and is only limited by your imagination. You can use it in place of darning small holes on t-shirts, like I did, or even to repair jeans! I like to use embroidery thread for this as it stands out well against your garment.
Darning a Sock - How to Mend Your Clothes While Self-Isolating Series: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes5/21/2020 I think this is the scariest repair featured in this guide, but also the most useful. How many times have you worn through a heal in your sock? I have a whole bunch of hiking socks with holes right where my boots would rub at the base of my ankle. Here I’ll darn a sock that I had originally thought would be added to my “too far gone…figure out textile recycling eventually” pile.
Reattaching a Strap - How to Mend Your Clothes While Self-Isolating Series: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes5/14/2020 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!
Fixing a hem is a great skill to have, whether you're just trying to mend a garment or if you're looking to alter its length to fit you better! It's also pretty simple…so…you've got this!!
Replacing Buttons - How to Mend Your Clothes While Self-Isolating Series: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes4/30/2020 If you’re lucky enough to stay at home during this pandemic, you may have some extra time on your hands. Did you go through your closet? Dig through your drawers? Find some clothes that you haven’t been wearing because they’re missing buttons or have holes? Learning how to mend your clothes can be a useful skill, and believe it or not, it can also be surprisingly fun!
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