@Lorrrraaaaine totally understand about the YouTube.
My sewing machine died this year so Iβm all set to learn my new one and get caught up on alterations and mending. I found a baby hashtag for #adventmending which Iβm going to pursue next year. I spend so much time gardening itβs good to have a focus month. This year, however, we fix until the basket is cleared! π
Today's mend was possibly the hardest (which is probably why I left it to second-to-last). Hardest because I wasn't really sure how to tackle the problem: elastic worn out *and* waistband worn through.
In the end I unpicked the waistband "hem" and cut off the damaged portion, then did a new double-fold hem to make a new casing for new elastic.
I also made the rookie mistake of sewing all the way around - at 12 stitches to the inch! - instead of leaving a gap for threading, so I had to unpick a bit. On the plus side, this gave me the chance to fix the bit I messed up.
#Advent #mending #AdventMending
Today's mend is a significant one.
Twenty years ago my grandmother gave me a guernsey she'd knitted for me - a grass/apple green, despite what the camera says.
Seven years ago I darned the cuffs where they were wearing through (https://deborah.makarios.nz/blog/2016/10/21/those-darned-sleeves/).
Today I picked up stitches around the bottom of the sleeve and unravelled the cuff, before reknitting it with the salvageable yarn (admittedly not to the same standard).
Gran's been gone for eighteen years, but her work lives on.
#Advent #mending #AdventMending #knitting #memories
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Deborah Makarios