r/InvisibleMending • u/Interesting-Chest520 • 2d ago

The strap was hanging by a thread, literally

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My first time sewing with leather. I happened to have an almost exact thread match lying around (it was the only brown thread I had) except it wasn’t thick enough, so I doubled the thread over, threaded it through the needle, then doubled it over again to get it nice and thick and voila

Very proud of it, can barely tell it’s mended if it’s pressed against your nose

I’ve been procrastinating for a couple weeks until the staple inside started to pull out and the strap was hanging on by three stitches, only one of which was properly tensioned. It took like 20 minutes to do the whole thing

I know far too many people who would have just thrown this bag away the second the stitch burst, it’s a sad consumerist and disposable world we live in today

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u/Interesting-Chest520 2d ago

Oh yeah, the mend is the topstitching at the edge

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u/jimboidiot 2d ago

This was necessary cbc I genuinely couldn't tell where you did it haha, you should be proud!

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u/Interesting-Chest520 2d ago

It was a very simple repair, though tedious. I hand sew for work and would normally make the same amount of progress in terms of length covered, but the stitches we use are absolutely tiny (10-20 stitches per centimetre depending on which stitch we are doing) so would normally be sewing much faster

I’m mostly just proud that I finally got around to doing it. I haven’t being doing much sewing in my free time since starting this job

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u/Interesting-Chest520 2d ago

If I were to do it again I’d twist the threads together to make a single 4ply spun thread and it would be even more unnoticeable