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 

Mend March

Good morning 🌷💚🌷
I'm joining Kate @visiblemend for mendmarch over at Instagram
It's a fun mending challenge and anyone can join in.
It's a great opportunity to meet other mending friends and get a lot of inspiration.

#mendmarch day 1.
Kate gave us the prompt slowly.
And this tablecloth have surly been a very slow process

Even my assistants wasn't very eager to help out after it was washed.
But very interested when I came home with it from the second hand store. [see video]

It was really in a very bad state and really quite ugly. But the crochet lace was just so beautiful 😍 I took it home anyway.

It was back in early May 2019 🤔😂🙊🙈

It went straight into a bucket of bleach as it was dirty, discoloured and something interesting I really didn't want to think about obviously had been interested in it.... 

So I stitched a few roses now and then over the holes in the fabric. But it was moving forward very slowly... 

But today I finally finished 👍😁😁

Did the last Roses 🌹🌹

And sewing a couple of stitches in the crochet lace. 

I keept the original darn as someone had cared so much about it earlier that they wanted to mend it. 

I learned to make those roses from my  friend Suzie. 

Didn't it just turn out beautifully? 

Day 2 of #mendmarch 

And today the prompt is needy. I had this winter overall in much need of some repair. 

I even though it needed a bit of feminine touch. 😆

Sleeves was beginning to show a bit of tear. Back pocket velcro needed replacing. 

Front pocket was frayed. 

And the arm pit was in need of some ladder stitch. The other armpit was done a while back. 

It's also time for Monday mending hosted by our friend Evelyn @evelyn_wood

I have started a pair of socks for the book I bought last week 👍
I had some time to knit 🧶 when we were on a car trip.

My hubby seemed to need a new hat so I crochet him one

Have a lovely new week friends 🌷💚🌷
Katrine 🌼 💚

Trying something new

After reading the lovely guest post from Franci, @arteobjetodiarios over at our mending community Mendingmayhem . We have a guest post almost every Friday if you are interested. It's mostly related to mending, textiles or art.
I feet very inspired to try try to make some fabric art 🎨 too.
Franci is a very talented Peruvian artist, painting with fabric. Her work is totally amazing 😍
So I went through my fabric scrap, no clue what I was going to make.
Then I found some beautiful left overs from a lovely fabric with embroidered roses. Well there wasn't a single rose left only bits and pieces.
I played around with them and found out it might make a good dog 🐶


It took me a while to get it the way I wanted it. And I rearranged it several times. And trying different backgrounds. Not really confident I could make it work.

Then pining and sewing was a bit faster 😉
Quite happy with the end result and I think I would like to do more of this.
My scrap basket sure looks like I should 👍😉

I'm also knitting on a pair of slippers for my hubby. They are going to be felted, but at the moment they look a bit like socks 🧦 for a giant 😂

Have a lovely evening 🌃 🌟
Katrine 🌼