Constantly extending the life of my boyfriend's five pair of identical jeans. 😂 Not exactly shashiko, more inspired/improvised.

I love this sweater but it did not last the season before getting pulls. I have the one here and two on the back.

I’ve been able to more or less wash, tug a little and lay flat to fix this sort of snag before (well, enough to wear casually).

I can’t get these to budge. Any advice or is it relegated to casual/WFH days?

If so, could anyone recommend which one to get please?

Thank you so much!

Hello there! I would be very grateful for some mending beehive genius mind here: My favourite cashmere scarf that I got from my mother is extremely worn down. It saw me through 10+ years of winters in three different countries and is still very warm and beautiful and light and I love it so much, I can't quite imagine parting with it. I wear it literally every winter, 90% of the time. It is, however, very worn, as u see in photos, in some places hair thin and has significant damage. I don't know what to do - throwing away is not an option - should I try and stitch it up and maybe colour it so to make it less noticeable? Or any way of repurposing it so that I still could wear it in some way? I've looked up online some techniques like Swiss darning etc but none of them seem quite suitable for my case. Extremely thankful for any advice!

Hello!

I have limited darning/visible mending experience, but you've all inspired me with your beautiful mends. I did a bit of embroidery some years ago, own a sewing kit, hoop and machine and various thread/scraps of fabric. All the gear, no idea (about visible mending).

If I was going to patch it, aside from Shiko, does anyone have any suggestions for making it pretty? I'm quite into the little animals and flowers etc I've seen people cover bleach spots with. Not sure if that would look silly on such a large tear?

Open to any and all suggestions. 🙏

bought this jacket second hand a couple of years ago and the cuffs have been fraying for a while and finally got round to fixing it

I don't know if this is strictly sashiko because I'm not the best at following instructions and prefer to make it up as I go along lol

Not the neatest stitcher but I'm so happy with how it turned out it looks super cool I used a mix of grey and red thread and I'm gonna use the rest to fix up the other tiny holes like the one on the pocket :)

Tips from more experienced people more than welcome!!

I got my partner these Glerups slippers for Christmas last year, and they love them a lot and wear them every day. They have this spot toward the heel where the wool started to pull apart, and I want to fix them for my partner so they can continue to wear them for years to come. I don’t know how to felt, but I’m hoping to learn the basics from fixing this, so if anyone has any advice on what tools or methods I should look into, please share! If you think there’s other methods that could work well other than felting, feel free to share those too!

My little puffer jacket has some rips in the sleeves, but I’m not sure how to go about mending this type of slippery fabric. Would it be best to get that tent/sleeping bag sealing tape, rather than stitch it? And then maybe iron on patches or something? Open to all ideas!

I’m not sure I’m going to keep this jacket and will likely donate it to my local housing shelter, so I want to make sure the repair can hold up!

My just came up on me, stretched and scratched my shoe, now it has two holes in it. How can I protect these holes so they don’t get larger? These are my winter shoes and I was hoping to get a few more seasons out of them.

(please ignore the bad formatting. despite being gen-born with a phone in hand having both images and text on reddit is still beyond my skillset)

I got this from a thrift store around 2 years ago and I of course have molded in some holes for my thumbs just by rubbing enough. It's a fast fashion shirt from a more local brand basically a bit worse than H&M used to be.

Since the area is so worn I decided to kinda just put in a new piece. yes you could say technically this is alteration and not mending, but then again stretch has funny ways of moving. I did it slightly differently on one sleeve due to it being slightly more intact and of course I added thumb holes since it helps me keep warm + stimming.

link to the sewing instructions I used for the sleeve method: https://www.tillyandthebuttons.com/2020/10/how-to-sew-thumbhole-cuffs.html

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I've been darning by hand and enjoy it, but I really love the look of darning loom/spedeweve darns.

However I watched a video on the spedeweve and it looks like the woven yarn is only attached to the mended fabric on 3 sides originally, with the 4th side tacked down afterwards.

Does this make the mend less durable? I feel like my darns are very thoroughly attached/interwoven because every thread is well attached to the fabric.

Is this an actual concern?