Worked at the charity/ thrift shop with my mum today. Found a bunch of cool stuff.
I normally go though bags of donations and sort them out put them on the shop floor etc and some clothes come to us pretty stained and ripped.
I want to save things from landfill so I've saved some stained stuff and and working at getting the stains out.
I found a cardigan with a hole in and just mended it in 2 minutes.
Blew out a knee on a pair chino pants. Decided it was time to try the Japanese Sashiko visable mending technique. Pretty happy with the result.
I bought a sashiko kit last year but haven’t had the opportunity to use it yet. Thankfully I managed to grab my brand new shirt in an awkward place, ripping the seam and tearing the fabric underneath. Oh well, all fixed now.
Perhaps it’s more semi visible mending. I gain a lot of small holes along the bottom of my T-shirts from aggressive tucking in. These holes wouldn’t have been visible under my waistband but I wanted to contain the damage so I placed a patch of jersey knit on the backside and stitch them on with black sashiko thread. The stitches are at a diagonal to allow the fabric to stretch a little.
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