We hope you enjoyed Mending Month! We loved bringing you the projects and having a chance to mend our own pieces at the same time. Thank you dear readers for all the feedback, tips, and blog posts that you’ve sent in to us. Check the mending archives for all the posts we covered. Here’s a […]
We all learned in high school (or at least I did) about how clear nail polish could help prevent runs in your tights or stockings. Sure your tights ended up sticking to your leg but at least you weren’t walking around with a long run for the whole day. Turns out that clear little bottle […]
Here’s a roundup of Mending Month this week: Learn how to mend your broken jewelry with bead queen Susan Beal. Andrea Dunlap likes to crochet patches and shows you how. Diane Gilleland patches a hole beautifully with reverse appliqué. Brookelynn Morris shows you how to repair a wool sweater with needle felting. Rachel mends an […]
How-To: Mend Chipped Dishes Give chipped dishes a second helping. By Tiffany Threadgould Have some nicks in your dishes, but don’t have a knack for fixes? Follow these simple steps to reglaze your dishes into new, one-of-a-kind tableware.
During Mending Month, we’ve had great tutorials for mending holes on elbows, shirt fronts, and pants legs that result in adding adorable embellishments to your clothes. But what if you have a hole in a place where you don’t want to add embellishment? What if you want your mending to be a little more seamless? […]
Here’s a roundup of this week’s Mending Month posts. Stay tuned! We aren’t even done yet. There’s lots more mending to come next week as well. Susan Beal shows you how to mend a bed sheet. Learn how to mend torn upholstery in Diane Gilleland’s tutorial. Arwen’s Patch 101 goes over the many ways you […]
Here’s an embarrassing story that should in no way deter from you using this easy fix to extend the life of your clothes. Several years ago I used a small purple flower to patch a hole in a pair of my favorite pants. The tear was at the spot where your upper thigh meets your […]
