Got this shirt 5+yrs ago from a resale shop but stopped wearing it after it got some obvious holes. Slapped some fish on the holes -> better than new 🐟

I was inspired by a previous post on the embroidery sub to try and repair a chair that had been scratched by our cats. I watched a YouTube video by Stephanie Louise who had fixed the couch in the original post. Before this my only embroidery experience was one of the beginner kits that I had done a couple years ago, but I figured I couldn’t make it worse!

I’m really happy with how it turned out and wanted to share!! I wish I had done some more flowers but this already took me a long time lol

There was a small stain on my niece’s hoodie. I was just going to do one flower but I enjoyed it so much, I kept going!

You can see the stain in the first pic: small red mark on the right. My helper wasn’t much help but I love having my 22 year old cat on my lap! I added a tiny ant too, since I’m her aunt and all. And I redid the bee because the first one looked wonky.

The back is atrocious. I’ll add some fusible interfacing this afternoon.

She better like it or else!

I've had this shirt for years now and wear it all the time. I've patched it before with the same color thread but after finding this sub I was inspired!

Redid a worn out patch on a pair of my pants. This guy is so helpful, holding the new patch in place

This took far longer than I care to admit. They are a little messy but I thought it turned out okay for my first try!

Had a slight stain on my shirt that won’t come out so I utilized the embroidery machine at work to cover it up! Saved it from going into the donation bin!

My husband and I wear the same size in pants. He was going to toss these old work pants and I said, I’ll keep them for myself, and covered up the holes with a dragon and a smoky cloud.

First time trying to visibly mend something with embroidery. In this case my moms sweater.

I always forget to take before pictures, each leaf is covering a hole that’s about 1/4”across. I was afraid it would look weird with one little flower but I actually really like it!

8 years ago I bought a tote bag in a supermarket in Venice. It had logos of the chain in the archway windows, but it was so beautiful that I decided it deserved some work to make it perfect. I use it everyday and it’s still in pretty good shape.

This was my first go at visible mending; I embroidered little bees over a series of small runs in this jersey-wool pullover. Thread is wool too.

I found a hole in the knee of these flower-patterned pants, so I decided to patch it with honeycomb fabric. I also added a bee next to it to hopefully reinforce a developing hole.

I’m just working based on what I’ve seen, and I’m not sure what to do next. Do I have to add some sort of interfacing to the back? Any constructive advice is welcome!

This hoodie has been passed along through several friends over the last 20 years. The only rule of recieving the hoodie is that you must pass it on to somebody else one day. It has so many holes from being well loved that I realised it would fall apart before the next pass-on, so I've been mending it with colourful embroidery. Unfortunately more holes appear every time I wear it! So far I've put approx 30hrs into this mend, I expect to spend at least that much more on it. I've never embroidered before outside of a few cross stitch kits when I was a kid, so I'm very proud of how this has turned out!

I got a tear on my backpack that I’ve had since I was a sophomore in high school. I’ve been a long time lurker on here so I decided to try and make something fun. I really like how it turned out, but I’ll admit there’s a lot of room for improvement. Any recommendations are welcome. :)

A pair of her favorite joggers got a hole in the knee and I asked if she wanted me to mend them. Asked if she wanted a heart or a strawberry, etc. of course she insisted it had to be a tiger,

Thrifted a pair of pants the other day without noticing some small bleach stains so I used the last of my white embroidery thread to free-hand some stars and the Orion and Big Dipper constellations. I will probably redo Orion and even out the stars once I go shopping but it works for now