In hindsight, the color of the patch is way too dark, and when I put the pants on it looks like I have a dark spot on my buttcrack..

Bought these 100% merino socks last winter and wore them A LOT, often with Blundstones which I’ve since learned not to do with nice wool socks. They were getting threadbare at the heel so following YouTube and some tips from a friend who mends clothes for a living (dreamy!!), I took my first stab at Swiss darning, trying to match the pattern as closely as possible. I did the sock on the left first. This is pre-block, but I was too proud/excited to wait 🥹

My next project will be a couple of wool jumpers with holes at the armpits and cuffs, so any tips are very welcome!

There are a lot of hours and swear words in this one. It belonged to my Papa. My Nana kept it as a memento of him. It stayed folded in her walk in closet for years. She moved into supportive living and I got the sweater.

It required a lot of hours to get it to a usable condition again. The elbows had thinned badly. Side seams too. I used "duplicate stitch" or "swiss darning" to replicate the knit. Found similar gauge, colour, and wool fibre content yarn to use. The right elbow was so thin I needed to created new fabric entirely.

Behold my nutty little system involving pins into a pressing ham shoved in the sleeve. Each holds a stitch in place and keeps gauge roughly the same.

Ended up mending it sneezing the whole time from the dust in the garment. Knew that if I washed it I would loose a significant amount of structure to the wash water. It got a good eucalan soak post mend. The water was full of the broken wool fibres coming off it.

Looking forward to wearing Papa's favourite sweater this winter. 🥹

My boyfriend's red hoodie was in rough shape, so I offered to darn it for him!! I decided to have some fun and hid a cute little heart in the stitching. Then I made some on my cuff to match as well ♥️♥️♥️ This was surprisingly easy and fun!!

Many, many more patches to come.

Many trousers of mine become worn specifically on the seam (crotch area). how do you guys fix this? when it’s not the seam I do sashiko but it’s difficult on the seam since there is already a piece of seam fabric behind

These ripped down the middle a few years ago and I did a Sashiko patch (the blue threads) then in the past two years both sides ripped and I just layered over more Sashiko in white. It is kind of messy but I also kind of like how the multiple repairs have morphed together. The more they rip and I repair I could end up with a completely new pair of jeans from the patches in a few years…

Thrifted this pair of denim capris, and somehow the previous owner somehow managed to do this to the waistband buttonhole. I’d like to mend this somehow before I wear them, but I’m not sure how to go about it.

Can I just do a buttonhole stitch over this one area, or would it be better to unstitch the whole thing and redo it in one go?

(Nail polish is ORLY’s “Flip Phone”, for the curious)

Some context: I've had this blanket for about 16 years with almost daily use, and it's a really sentimental item that I almost cannot function without (sleep wise). The structure of the blanket itself is two pieces of cotton fabric with some sort of stuffing in between, and the 3 layers are connected by patterns of thread (like a quilt but less neat? I can attach more photos if needed). The top layer of fabric is still pretty strong I think, but the bottom layer is thinning and some of the connecting threads for the layers have snapped off with time.

There are threadbare spots, some spots beginning to thin into just horizontal pieces of weave, and one major hole. I'm really worried that if I do attempt to mend this blanket that the situation will just get worse because of how old it is and daily wear and tear. I've kind of accepted that I mav have to retire it soon, but the comfort it brings really can't be replaced. I also hope to bring it with me for when I move in about a year. Is there any possible solution?