as a girl who loves making and was bought up to mend things, i am so pleased that the make do and mend movement in the UK has caught on again and that people seem to be thinking twice before they chuck stuff out.
as a sewing teacher i am lucky to be able to pass on valuable repair skills such as sewing on buttons, hemming and patching. I do many alterations at home for my family and a fair bit of patching for my husband who has a nak of splitting his jeans across the seat.
A few weeks ago in the field at my local Food CSA i ripped my skirt on a bit of barbed wire which left a small hole. Inspired by the vouge in visible mending and using gold thread to repair i used a piece of gold silk dupion to make a heart shape backed with a fusible web.
I pressed the small golden heart over the hole and stitched over it using freemotion stitching on my sewing machine.
i was really happy with the result and when i showed it to my youngest, she smiled and said to me, 'mum, you have a heart of gold' ; ) aww x
there is a flickr group devoted to mending set up by Eirlys Penn from the Big Mend in Bristol where you will find some great mending inspiration and here is her golden mending experiment.
Morwhenna who ran the Love What you Wear project i took part in last year has a wee video of her golden mending too.
gorgeous x
Posted by: driftwood | June 24, 2014 at 17:37
What a sweet idea. It looks like that heart just landed like a butterfly.
I do repair and alter clothes when I have the time. I could use more hours to catch up with the ever growing pile awaiting my attention.
Marie x
Posted by: Marie | July 01, 2014 at 18:46
Great idea - it looks so pretty.
Posted by: Kitty | July 15, 2014 at 17:20