How to patch a hole

 

 

 

 Patching a hole in your favourite jeans  isn't very difficult .

You don't need a lot of fancy stuff either 

All you need  is  a needle , some sewing thread a pair of sissors  and a patch of fabric .

If you have some  old clothes you can cut them up  and use them for patches.

 

Here I have used a bit of a leg from a donated pair of jeans .  I decided to use crochet thread  for my stitching this time, but regular sewing thread or embrodery thread works fine . Use what you have ,

Make sure your patch is covering the hole and a little bit around, my hubbys jeans was well worn and  had a bit of  worn areas around the hole so I made the patch quite big .

 

 

I used pins to hold it in place , and folded in  edges to keep it from fraying. A lot of people think it's cool with a little frayed edges, but mr Trollkjerringa don't .

I sewd the patch with backstitch you find a tutorial here

 

 

 

 To fasten  your thread sew a few stitches in the same place  

 

 

 

 Stitch around the patch  through bout layers

 

It's always nice to have a assistant, but not nessesary 

Then you have stitched all the way around , remember to fasten off by stitching a few stitches in the same place . Now you have managed to patch your jeans.

If you want to you can  keep going and making the patch a bit more.decorative.

I chose to make a little sashiko inspierd  decorations on this jeans.

this ar just runningstitch 

it's possible to skip the entire first step and  sew  running stitch  throug bout layers 

 

 

Up and down using runningstitch
 

Then the other way 

Now you will have super cool jeans  and saved a pair form the landfill 

Heart with beads

I have a lot of beads as I used to make jewellery.  

But they don’t do any good in a box, don't you agree?  

I have spent some time thinking what to do whit all of them, the small once I use to decorate clothes when mending. It's the bigger once I didn’t know how to use. 

I needed a birthday gift for a friend and I didn’t know what to give.  

But then I remembered I had some wire clothes hangers and thought they make good hearts.  

I found some metal wire that was not to thick and started. 

I made 2 large hearts  

Then I thought I would like smaller hearts too. 

And found a thicker wire and made hearts out of it.  

So far, I have made 4 smaller hearts. 

I’m putting them up in my Shop if you like to buy one  

I don’t have a real shop, so you still need to email me or dm me on Instagram   

Prices include free worldwide shipping.  

If you want to try make your own heart, I have made a little tutorial. 

You need thick wire or wire clothes hanger  

Thinner wire, you don’t need any fancy expensive one. I got mine at the florist. (we don’t have any craft stores here )  

Pliers for cutting and bending. I used my jewellery pliers, but you can use regular once. 

Beads with a large enough hole for the wire you don’t need fancy beads. A old necklace or two can be cut and you will have a lot to play with.  

The bigger hearts need a lot of beads. 

Start with shaping your thick wire to a heart.  try to find the middle and make a v shape  

I used my nose pliers. Then you need to make the half circles. 

I used an old bottle and stretched the wire around it  

Then you will need to take one end and twist it around the other  

And you should have a wire that looks like a heart. 

Then it’s time for the thinner wire. 

Cut a long piece and twist the end around the heart, then twist it around the thin wire to secure the end thread bead on and pull it over the twisted part. Make a bend on the wire so the bead stays in place.

 Keep on adding beads and make twist or bends as you like. It’s smart not to have too long span before you get to a side and twist your wire around the heart. 

Keep on adding beads. When you see your wire is running out, make sure you will have enough to reach the heart wire. End the wire opposite from the start.  Add a bead, twist a few times around the heart wire, then twist the thinner wire around itself. Push the bead over the end and make a bend under it to keep it in place . 

When you have filled the entire heart. Add a twine to hang it in your window 

Have fun making hearts . If you make a heart with my tutorial I would like to see your work . If you are on instagram  you can tag me @trollkjerringa1 or use the #2020heartsforhope
Thanks for reading 
Wishing you a great weekend 
Katrine 💗🌷🌷💗🙋

Confession from a newly appointed teacher

This new job just took me by surprise as I never applied for it, nor is it a job I want.
You can surely say it came out of the blue.
I actually shouldn't work at all. I'm chronic ill and I struggle to make things go around in my everyday life.

But there is a crisis going on and schools are all closed. So we all need to do our best.
I though home schooling ment teachers would have online programs and follow up with the kids. My bad. Mostly they give out tasks for the day and the kids have to study by themselves.
Since my kid has special needs it's not really working out. Probably not for a lot of other kids too
At school my kid has an assistant who helps him out.
I never actually liked school.
They don't do things the way we did. And it's PowerPoint, word document and annoying apps. That is impossible to understand and to use.
There should be added something here and there and recording sound files and God knows what... Calculate with x and y
Glaciers and history and science projects to try to understand.
It's ages since I was in school and I can't remember half of this. To be honest I did probably not pay very much attention back then.

The first week I spent more time on finding out what to do and how to do it than I actually managed to help my son with his work.
I wanted to cry.. I was so tired I had 2 extra naps a day. I learned my kid a hole lot of new swearing 🤬 words. So he actually learned something... I felt like an idiot most of the time... I pulled my hair and seriously thinking about throwing the computer out the door...
The only light in this is the one  teacher who calls and help my kid very much.
This week the apps and other annoying stuff made a little bit more sense. But not very much
I'm still not a teacher. And I still hate to do school work.
But I do want to help my kid as much as I can.
And we are the lucky once as my kid only needs help for school work 👍 as I browse through the news I can read about families with disabled children who suddenly have absolutely no support at all. So I feel I'm a whining bitch while I think about when I last had a proper hot meal that wasn't hotdogs or frozen pizza 🍕 because when school is done I am out of energy.
I think we probably can grow potatoes on the living room floor. That is probably a good idea, as I don't have to go outside to pick them up... 🤣 🤣 🤣
But at least my kid gets a bit of school.

And he made this beautiful redesign from some old bottles. It made me really proud ❤️
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I have tried to keep some sanety by trying to do all the fun prompts for mendmarch. Hosted by the fun and mendy Kate @visiblemend over at Instagram.
Usually I like to write much more about my mending here but due to the situation you can check out my Instagram or  Facebook page  instead.
Adding a few pictures of what I was supposed to blog about

Gratitude for my hubby and all the other truckers that does a very important job every day but people first noticed how important they are now due to the crisis.
Text says without trucks, Norway 🇳🇴 stops
Here is an article about how important key workers are treated in this crisis. I'm ashamed. Is this how we should treat key workers the article is in Norwegian

My sister got her dress repaired 

 Worst winter coat ever got a lot of new mends

            Bugge for my hubby's shirt

           My sister in her franken pants 👖

                    Spilling coffee ☕

                      Fixing dad's shirt

             Very old and loved woolshirt

                  Crochet longer sleeves


Though I feel like I rather should clean..
But keeping sane is pretty important too.
Though I'm pretty sure homeschooling will kill me before corona...
I should have been outside making the garden ready for spring 🌷

I have piles of dirty laundry to do.
And I have been writing on this post for days, but I just keep falling asleep.
But it's important to keep positive right?
So I was very happy to see we have got lots of snow this morning.

 Something I usually hate. But now it means I don't need to think about gardening for a while.
I lost several kg because I'm to tired to eat. That's really good as my clothes lately seems to have been shrinking in the wardrobe. If homeschooling keeps up for another month I actually might have a bikini body in June..

The deers have been really helpful too cutting back all our fruit trees and even a holy bunch and some rhododendrons too.
That is pure luck 🤞 🍀

I probably can leave the laundry for a while, with social distancing no one will notice my shirt has a stain from last week 🤣🤣🤣
And I can send my hubby to the store. He can just say he came straight from work if someone says he has dirty clothes.

I got to refresh my knowledge from childhood and the book they are reading in Norwegian is really good. I hope I will manage to get to the end.

But now I really need to have another nap.
Stay safe and stay home
Katrine 🌼