Do It Yourself

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I tried mending on a whim and this is who I am now (beehaw.org)

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I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread

I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year

I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It might. Sometimes with knits, especially if you have the wrong needle or are really close to the edge, it can catch in the feed dogs and cause that problem. You can have similar issues if you have too much tension as well. Make sure to get an old Tshirt with similar fabric that you are retiring and practice some different zig zag stitches first. I keep sacrificial clothing around for practice stitches. You can also try adjusting the foot pressure to get it to feed more consistently.