#mending clothing

[dognonsense]

Patching up some holes in my sweatshirt

The holes are patched with beetle patches

[confessionsofarefashionista]

Here's 6 easy fixes for those clothes in your closet that need a little bit of TLC! ♻️🧵

[raycatzdraws]

Local insomniac and amnesiac accidentally scare the ever living daylights out of each other for completely different and very personal reasons.

I like the headcanon that the chain end up sharing and learning each other's songs! (Whether on purpose or by accident in the case of Legend here. It also ties into how Wild knows a bunch of their songs in totk!)

As usual, there's some extras under the read more!

I started coloring and then decided not to! Anyways- Pink Link Pink Link! Wind and Legend are crafting~ Wind's making what I know from camp as a pirate's rope bracelet >:) (though the actual name of the craft is kumihimo!)

[kikker-oma]

Wind has some role models🤭

[cozypunkprints]

Finally got around to finishing this visible mending project from this fall.

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Visible Mending

My grandmother sews up the elbows of my shirt.

Patched and patterned, in garish colours

Outlandishly clear. A kind of cloth kintsugi, saying

This is not that which was here before.

Ostentatiously altered, openly repaired,

A virtue signal, I accept, but will not apologise for.

I walk the streets with solarpunk written on my arms.

Andrew sews up the flaps of my skin.

Carefully sutured, his steady hands

Bear a duty of care. These marks will scar and harden,

Swallow stitches and leave stretch-pleats.

Even when the scabs have fallen,

I stand with a form all fixed and modified,

A body I stayed with, laboured over,

Though I could have chosen to throw it out.

I stand before the mirror with trans written on my chest.

Lined and changed, my biohacked body

And rescued clothes speak prophecy to a future

As yet unnamed. I carry them both as a promise.

One on the other, endlessly whispering,

Visibly mended and always the proof

That redemption is worth the price.

I rub oil into my scars and ask

My grandmother to teach me how to sew.

[solroskajan]

I’d like to think that Ingo repairs his clothes at some point (he deserves it) 

[rhysintherain]

Now that Pixie's out of her bitey puppy phase, I'm fixing some of the shirts she bit holes in.

This the sleeve of one of my flannels:

Gonna do a bit more of this pattern and color on a big hole in the shoulder and another small one on the back.

The backing material is 14 count cross-stitch Aida (to keep the geometrics geometric), and the thread is 2 strands of embroidery floss. Still gotta wash the starch out because it's stuff as hell right now.

The pattern came from an image search for geometric embroidery designs. It's a lot bigger than this, but I only needed the center piece for this one.

[sumersprkl]

I feel like the Taaco twins' senses of personal style developed because every time Lup wanted to jump into the middle of some stupid shit, she'd hand Taako all of her accessories for safekeeping and he'd just... Put them on.

They wear matching outfits not to be some kind of weird twin stereotype but because Taako needs to be prepared to wear anything Lup has on at a moment's notice.

Pretty soon they'd have arguments about who owns any single piece of jewelry because Lup swears she bought it for herself but it's been an essential part of Taako's wardrobe for 50 years.

So by the time they get to Faerun at the end of the Stolen Century, Lup looks like she walked out of a streetwear fashion magazine except that her only accessories are a jacket and MAYBE a pair of sunglasses, and Taako jangles when he walks under the weight of all his jewelry.

[dognonsense]

patched up this tooth paste stained sweatshirt my gf no longer wore :3 now the patches cover that stain and looks so cool. I used embroidery floss in different colors to add some more pops of color.

the patches came from patch trades with friends and 'god is trans' is from threeracoonsstudio the patch seller.

[wereshrew-admirer]

a late 15daysoffatt day 8: drink girlies

(as in: marn will turn everybody into a drink girlie)

[talos-stims]

patching up my pants. if i do this properly then ill never have to buy new clothes again babeyyy | my video, link back here if using

[wastelesscrafts]

I read somewhere that embroidered clothes need to be washed differently. Is this true? I read that right after getting a bunch of embroidery floss to visibly mend some clothes

Washing embroidered clothes

Yup! Check out my post on securing embroidery thread, which includes laundry instructions. My embroidery tag's also a good resource.

Handmade embroidery tends to be fragile, so it's important to properly secure your thread and take good care of the embroidered item. If you don't, you risk for your threads to come loose.

If you're not careful when washing embroidered items, your embroidery threads could get snagged on things like buttons or zippers in the washer.

Try to either wash them by hand (safest), or use your machine's delicate cycle combined with a laundry bag. Always let the item air-dry.

[brazenedminstrel]

Gender jacket V2: day 8

THE PATCHWORK IS DONE!!

It has been a labour of love but I’m really happy with how it all came out. This is pre-spikes and buttons, all the patches are on there and I even unexpectedly received another “no terfs on our turf” patch that fits like a charm as well.

Bonus pic of the area I’m honestly proudest of ^

If you can read notes, good for you!

The other progress days are in the tag “gender jacket reform”!!

[strawberrysalamanders]

Crochet Patching

from Mending Life: a Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina and Sonya Montenegro

[cozypunkprints]

A collection of most of the hand-darned mending I’ve done in the past year or so.