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Warn others
Wander over here if you want to watch how I actually did the darning on this one (because look, I do not feel like figuring out how to put videos on here, and instagram is making us all make videos...
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More mending
Still fixing the craptastic sweater from Madewell that has fallen apart after less than a season of wear! Quick recap. I bought three of this sweater this fall. I have about five sweaters I rotate...
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Stabalize
So while the patches are in the wash and drying, I’m building up the hole and thin area by more or less weaving new fabric over it. I rolled up a blanket and shoved it in the sleeve to hold everything...
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Salty
And there we go. Knitted patch sewn down atop the stabilized bit of the sleeve. This elbow will outlast the whole rest of the sweater (admittedly not hard, as the sweater is made of fluff and spite and...
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Article 4
Yeah. It’s not that the sweater doesn’t fit. It’s that flat fabric (sweater) over a not flat surface (me) held together at just a handful of spots (buttons) is gonna gap. But it’s super fixable! Also...
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Imaginary
I am currently imaginary. I do not exist. I am not doing work. I am not checking email. I am not being productive. I am napping. Or watching a movie. Or napping. Or possibly cooking something…or at...
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Sorted
I continue to be imaginary, but the blanket repair is sorted. Once I had all the live stitches picked up, I just bound them off with a nice stretchy bind off. It’s tedious, because it’s long, but not...
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Elbows
This sweater is several years old and had been in heavy rotation that whole time. And elbows are just heavy wear areas, so they’re often the first spot to wear out. But if you catch them in time, you...
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Fairly Subtle
Ok, so the goal here was ‘fairly subtle mend’…in part because ‘perfectly invisible mend’ was just not going to be an option on this one. But I feel like this is hitting the ‘fairly subtle’ goal pretty...
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Bullseye
What do you think, did I hit the goal (not invisible, but fairly subtle)? I’m pretty happy with it! The first pic is the mend after the sweater was washed and let to dry, the second pic is before I...
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