Hi! I know this sub is used more for holes or torn garments, but I figured it was worth a try.

Somehow I got a bleach stain on the knee of these corduroy pants. Any chance someone has an idea how to cover or patch over this? I don’t want to try dying it and risk ruining the whole garment.

If it’s a no-go, I’ll head over to visible mending and see if they have any creative and fun suggestions there! I’d rather keep the pants looking as they are naturally, but I really just want to be able to keep wearing them!

Is there anything I can do 😭

hello! I have this cotton dress that’s a sort of thin almost gauze material that has a rip near the armpit. Any advice on how to mend? I’m thinking i might need a patch. photo attached.

I acquired this wool blend skirt at a swap (7% camel wool) and it had a small hole it in that had been simply mended with thread. I thought oh I can do better.

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I removed the thread to reveal the small hole

And thought hey since I hemmed the skirt I can \"card\" the stuff I took off to generate roving to felt with. This worked well! I used my cat's brush, which is also a horse brush called the equigroomer. Things were going great

FML

This is when things went horribly wrong. Here's the mistakes I made

• I felted too deeply and clumsily, caused the felt to adhere to the felting pad and tear when I tried to separate it....which created a bigger hole

• I unintentionally stretched it while it was over the felting pad, also making the hole bigger

• I didn't know how to felt correctly lol. I thought I did because I did a felting kit and it turned out mostly OK. I thought just stabbing like a maniac would yield good results.

• I used low quality felting needles I got on scamazon

• I felted into the zipper

Reader, I proceeded to compound my mistakes by trying to fix it and just making it worse. I put some other roving I had as backing thinking the issue was the fibers weren't felting right, but the colors didn't match. I also tried to connect it and blend it with the fabric around it, making my problem bigger and bigger.

Finally I realized I was doing something very wrong and went and read some articles about felting and bought good felting needles of three different types. I realized that I needed to felt at many different angles, far more shallow, start out with high gauge needles and move to the lower and finally the twisted needle. I used some of the hem I'd carded as an interface. I manged to blend it in mostly OK but damn I wish I had started out differently. Ironing helped too.

\"fixed\"

OOOPS

Here's what I wish I'd done:

• The fabric was thick, I could have easily sewn in a backing to stabilize the hole and felt into that
• I should have worked in small layers and carefully blended, making sure to avoid it adhering to my pad
• Felt correctly with the right needles, watch some videos, practice more... you know, common sense

Anyway, hope this helps somehow avoid my mistakes. I am contemplating doing a visible mend on this because I feel like a bad invisible mend looks much worse than even a mediocre visible mend.

I’ve these two stuffed animals for almost 30 years at this point, and their fur is starting to wear off. I want to see if I can add some back in the places it’s worn away, preferably without cutting or having to add patches. I was thinking of trying needle punch? It seems like they both have enough of a mesh backing to handle it. Wanted to get other people’s thought though. ~thanks

My cat just snagged my cardigan and made this huge hole. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix it? I love this cardigan and don’t want to throw it away but I also can’t wear it anymore like this

I wrote a post here a week ago asking for advice on how to fix this and received a brilliant suggestion, which was felting some wool of the same shade into the holes. However i got a bit impatient while i was waiting for the materials to be shipped and decide to try a different method. What i did was using a simple needle to take out the fibers from the underneath layer. I was NOT expecting it to turn out so good! The coat had dozens of these holes, this morning i can’t even spot them easily to take a pic. That’s the happiest i have felt this autumn for sure, especially since i’m not a professional and i was already getting anxious at the thought of paying a lot of money to fix them all. Thanks to the people who instructed me on how to kill all the eggs too. Can’t wait to start wearing it 🥰

p.s: sorry for the cat hair

Is there any home diy to fix this in the most seamless was possible?

First attempt at kaketsugi mending. Should have ended the threads on the wrong side instead of the out side because trimming them closely is hard. Oops.

I got this puffer at a thrift store thinking it was an amazing buy for the brand but I got it home and noticed this sleeve had a repair. Any recommendations to make it look a bit nicer?

My cotton-outer weighted blanket got caught in the top of the wardrobe sliding doors and the fabric has worn to the point of letting some of the glass beads out.

I'm not expecting a repair to be 100% invisible to the eye but I would prefer it didn't feel obvious. I was thinking I could darn it but wondering whether I should put some kind of interfacing on it first?

I got these in a sample sale and have never received anything this damaged. i've patched small holes before but nothing like this. what is the best way to go about repairing this - it goes across the whole width of the pant leg

Hi! The cuffs of a down jacket are worn down with some holes in it. I was just gonna whipstitch (not particularly invisible) the holes and call it a day. Do you have another suggestion? (It also needs cleaning haha) thanks!

Not sure if this is the right subreddit but how would you recommend mending this jacket? It’s a plastic/waterproof material.