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 Welcome to my new website and blog For those of you who doesn't know me I'm Katrine Living outside Åndalsnes a small town in Norway. I have been creating an mending most of my life. ​ Being creative is a huge part of my life. I love second hand and do a bit of alternations and use a lot of salvaged supplies in my work.  I are running the mendingmayhem mending community at Instagram Mendingmayhem   

And on  Facebook I learned early to take care of my things. We did not have a lot of money. My mother sewed a lot of our clothes, often from clothes passed down to us from grown ups. Mum was very creative and could sew or mend almost anything. Dad fixed other stuff that broke - like one of my dolls got a screw in the hip because the leg kept falling off! (I actually think I still have it somewhere.) I have been lucky to be raised in a creative family and to have learned mending from my mother and Grandmothers - they had a zero waste lifestyle long before it was popular. My grandmother knitted the coolest socks from leftover yarn, and she did a lot of what we would today call visible mending…...although most people thought she was a bit funny back then…! I don't like to throw away usable stuff. My mum once said, if someone finds something you tossed and they can use it they are truly lucky 🍀 I have always liked to reuse and recycle ♻ things and to mend or repair. The ultimate challenge is obviously when someone tells you it can't be done…! I'm a very creative person and apart from mending I likes to sew, crochet, and knit amongst other crafty pastimes. I learned a lot from my mother and grandmothers, and also use the internet if there is something I don't know how to do. When I learned to mend it was supposed to be invisible. To have mended clothes was shameful and a sign of poverty. And not something you should use in public. However times have changed. Now a mended garment show you care about the environment, by having a substantial wardrobe. Using visible mending you can express your self and create unique pieces of clothing. In the slideshow you can see a very loved woolshirt I was told it was impossible to mend ​And my sons jacket that got ripped very badly at school ,andt the teacher didn't think it was possible to mend . My son went back to school the next day in his newly mended jacket