A place to share anything about visible mending, or any mending projects at all! Textiles and clothes take a lot of resources and time to make, now and all through history. Visible mending celebrates the clothes on our backs by taking care of them instead of throwing them away. Feel also free to post non-cloth or -textile (visible) mends! Not every post needs to be about something being repaired, and we accept zero waste fashion and secondhand projects, as they uphold the spirit of mending. Pre-distressed clothing does not fit well here, unless used as a mending example. Mends do not HAVE to be expressly "Visible" if process or before images are displayed as well.
And a replacement button with a similar color scheme :)
At some point I also wanna get some mini patches to go where there's currently the little embroidered polo player. The theme is lavender lemonade, so a little lavender and a little lemon would be cute :)
Some quick darning on beloved gudetama underpants
A bit more invisible and at the same time messy than usual, but a fixed hole none the less.
Full shirt
Closer view of larger fixed area
Sashiko fixed bigger holes
Already went through multiple phases of fixing, and the backdrop cloth for the bigger holes even started to wash out. This part was fixated through my first try with the shashiko approach.
Fitted stitch into the creases already existing on the cuff of one of my hoodies
To keep this magazine active just showing off older work of mine. This was one of my first fixes and I still like it a lot and it's holding up really well.
Not too visible but in the spirit of mending. Went for a metallic silver thread for some extra shine for some visibility in comparison to plain white stripes on pants
Detail of fixed hole
Snapshot of hole before fixing up
With quite a few holes to fix on these sweatpants I went for some larger space themed mends:
