Visible mending brings new life to old damaged clothes ️ | Everyday | ABC Australia

I mend my socks this way using colored yarns. I can go thriugh work socks pretty quickly and they all wear in the same spots. I was tired of throwing away money - good socks aren’t cheap.

I too find mending to be relaxing and satisfying.

Незаметные заплатки тяжело сделать, но такие креативные заметные заплатки надо ещё придумать и адаптировать! Очень красиво и креативно! ❤ Спасибо!

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Cool 😀

You are a very skillful craftmen.

It's cool when you have clothes from "traditional" materials but if your clothes is from modern high-end and/or non-woven synthetic materials, then pretty much all of this goes out of the window because it either wouldn't work or it would lose it's properties

I like to crochet lacy coasters and use them to patch rips in my jeans. Lends a boho chic to my best loved jeans.

Do I want to mend my vintage corderoy...or do I want it as donor fabric..🙄

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It‘s not normal to repair everything on your own, but honestly who even got the time anymore?
I do sew some stuff back together, but i wouldn‘t even try to fix a big ass hole or something. Those are either the clothes that get demoted to „garden work clothes“ or that get thrown way.
In our family we have the luxury that we can give stuff that need sewing to my retired great aunt, since she does have the time, but as a normal working person it‘s just easier and often even cheaper to simply buy something new.

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Who even gets holes in their clothes just straight on a flat surface? it's always seams ripping. Mostly in the crotch or under the arms or some other place that's under a lot of tension.

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So cool.

I love stitching book bindings a lot. Like, more than I actually like using the journal. I think this would be something I'd enjoy!

This should have been created to run on bluetooth or 5g internet for it to work properly at all which it doesn't. You need 2.4g which requires you to go into your modem settings and split each line of internet between 2.4 and 5. When you do this the internet pings so much at 2.4g it refuses to work at all. This product is worthless now. Really disappointed...

I love and adore this woman, thank you so much for sharing with us your mending techniques that are good for the planet and sustainable.

This gotta be a trend. A one pair of jeans is water for one person to drink for all of his life but is contaminated with toxic synthetic dyes and pesticides. Mending you save lives.

I have Simpsons dolls. They became dusty and i decided to wash their clothes. For some reason when i was washing Marge’s green dress it got 2 holes. So i decided to mend it by your technique. The holes were small but dear god that was soooooo booooring and requires precision and sharp eye and time consumption. So no thank u. I aint doing it again ever.

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It looks great. I truly like it. Except who has the time for this fiddly job these days for so little return, especially if they really don't want to? It's beautiful, but for most of us, at most, we go to an atelier, if an item is expensive or otherwise precious. Sometimes I mend my clothes, just a few moments ago I found a small hole on a knit skirt, and I want to mend it, it's small, and I know how to mend knits. But since I sometimes do it, I know how much time it takes, and how it requires a knack, which also takes time to acquire. We live fast, to most of us, it's a hurdle not worth tackling.

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Wonderful to see young women taking time to enjoy slowly stitches to relax whilst creating projects or renewing older garments with thoughtful love.
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I make a lot of my work clothes. When my shirts have finally started wearing out (after 10-12 years) I've been either adding bias tape or other fabric as trim.

mending, sewing and cooking was one of the classes in home econ I loved the most...lucky to be in high school in the early 2000s where these classes were offered because it's so useful

This is exactly what I was looking for! I also have a question. I need to mend pillow case which is thin cotton fabric. Should I use whole 6 thread like in the video?

I absolutely love the way you're storing your needles!

This is so pretty and quite fashionable but a lot of my worn and rip are between the legs. Not so nice for visible mending.

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ripped jeans manufacturers hate this one simple trick

I remember learning WHY wool needles are dull; the dull needle forces the fibers open
instead of piercing a thread.

I love that needle felting was also mentioned as a means of repair!!!

This has been super helpful honestly, I've been learning how to properly mend clothes after mostly doing it by instinct growing up! Really want to try darning now :)

This is an absolutely beautiful firm of art, and it is good to see people taking an interest in it. 40% of landfill waste is textiles, and that is horrible and unnecessary.

the needle she pointed out for denim is a leather needle, it's basically got blades on the end, so it's best saved for things where you want to be cutting your way through.....

mending just costs something expensive. "time"

time is money, and mending something that costs more time than what you could make working is partly why its more cost effective to simply replace.

but if you got free time, and need something to do, this is an effective option to bring value out of time you wouldn't have been able to use for a more effective conversion of currency.

cheap items get replaced because of time. but expensive items are repaired because of time. it would cost more to replace than it would to repair.

Sentimental items get repaired at all costs because no amount of time can compare to "priceless"

Nice explanation, which makes it look doable. Unfortunately, my eyesight isn't very good anymore for sewing.

You can also hide stains

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Thank you for subtitles.

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Interesting

I love mending my clothes. I used to cross stitch quite a bit in college but that's slowly evolved into combining visible and invisible mending into my clothes. I thrift the majority of my clothes so I always need to repair an undone seam or sew on a button. Little embellishments also help the piece feel more unique and more you

Now it's to the point where I kinda like getting holes or rips in my clothes because then I can repair it, add a bit of flair, and allow the clothing to tell its own story

Thank you! Learned a lot. I used to mend my docks this way in the winter time. The little stitches will help big time with mending my jeans! I would love to find out more about using wol to felt holes. I didn’t know that was possible. Thanks again! It was was a very enjoyable and clear video to watch! One of my favorites.

Yeah its usually the crotch for me... I don't think its very fashionable to decorate my crotch but who am I to tell.

One of my favorite shirts is actually a flannel shirt from my godfather that my godmother mended with a small heart shaped patch.

Also some embroidery floss is unwashed and shrinks a TON, so it's worth gently pre-boiling it so it won't pull your garment out of shape.

I have actually woven my mending thread with the existing garment's threads to help stabilize, and it also looks kind of cool. This would be the stronger threads crisscrossing a hole, or where you have that little bit of wear there, just adding some reinforcement in. :-).

Nice work! :-)

People used to fix things because it was cheaper than buying a new one. Material was expensive and labor was cheap. Today fixing things is largely a privilege of people in the middle class with enough free time for craftwork.