I used every type of patchwork that I know to mend these beauties, now I just need the weather to warm up so I can wear them!

My first pair, 1 week to make with the plastic winders of the singer 4452 which deeply broke on me🤮, I am thusdeparted, meaning to be the unmasking departure into rebirth imperfected, through boro inspired upcycling. A bit new to sewing.

I started out with what inspired me deeply, proleta re art, their works along with kapital deeply fueled the beginning of my journey.

Well, I now need a new machine, in the sew help sub Reddit, found someone who recommended the sailrite. The quality and affordability of it seem to be the one for me.

A bit tricky to find where you belong or those who resonate with your artistic expression, I thought posting here would allow for some synergy and exposure to my cause.

I just started my brand but it feels like more than that. Anyways this subreddit seems very inspiring and colourful, I love the works in here, hopefully this is somewhere I belong.

I live in Canada, the city of Toronto Ontario. A 22 year old male currently working at Costco part time trying to carve out my own path in this beautifully chaotic world. Have 1 college credit, as my program was a great imposition of technicality and creative suppression due to the large presence of spiteful envious ego.

I notice I deeply thrive on independence and with others where synergy exists, as it takes 2 to bridge the gaps of openness. Not sure what I should do now for school, hate my job, but deeply love those passion that my inner being deeply clings to as it may lead to my own liberation from this controlling despairing system of control. Anyways, forward is the only way to go, that in itself is a bittersweet luxury. I just hope I don’t give up on myself as I made a promise to me to not give up as I owe it deeply to myself.

Seems that I expressed way too deeply, well I guess that is what a leo ♌️ is for hehe.

thusdeparted on ig

Kind like that. What do we think? Yay or nae?

Doing a bunch of sashiko mends on my oldest pair of jeans, want them too look fun and colorful. Should I leave the white patch empty or embroider flowers, or more tiny x's?

The other knee also needs a big repair but I'm going to do a couple different color/size patches on top for that.

Also! If anyone knows a neater way to mend around the edge of the hole that would go with the design, feel free to suggest.

I thrifted this jacket ages ago and it only had four buttons left when I got it. I finally decided to replace them all! I’ve done eight so far (including the sleeve cuffs) and have two more to do (the pockets). My darning skills are slowly but surely improving and I’m fairly pleased with how this one came out. It’s a great use for the hoard of multicolored thread I’ve been sitting on for years.

I still have a few more major repairs to do on this jacket (notably the seam by the buttons and covering the sleeve cuffs which are quite ripped up) and I have yet to finish putting patches on the back, but I’m getting closer and closer to where I want it to be every day!

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 overlapped the cuts slightly, then used a stitch I found on my sewing machine.

There was quite a big tear in the sleeve of an old shirt i have, so i tried my hand at visible mending. I also wanted to do a sashiko pattern on top but ended up kinda freestyling bc the chalk rubbed off. Anyone have any advice?

The yellow stitching behind is the stitches I used to repair the hole. This is my second attempt at visible mending, I do a lot of embroidery, but it’s all the preset kits. It was fun getting to play around with my own design and colors.

I had done a simple patch prior, which was unfortunately in a bright yellow. My kid was not convinced the pants were fixed because of this, so I had to devise a new plan: Butterfly patch!

This was tricky since the pants are really leggings, and quite stretchy. I know this will become a weak spot because of the lack of stretch is gives compared to rest of the material, but at least they're wearable again!

0.3cm about in size and I hate to look at it, I really like this jacket. Absolutely love it.

A belt loop tore a hole in my jeans. Now I have a shrimp friend on my hip. Handmade with chain stitch embroidery.

The bottom of my favorite tote bag was getting dirty and worn out so I used some scrap denim from old jeans to make a new bottom after cutting away the old part; and I also reinforced the attachment of the straps (although they are slightly uneven hahaha)

I used a felled seam stitch to join the old and new together on my Viking Jade 20 (best purchase I’ve ever made, it was half off at my nearest retailer bc of the Joann’s bankruptcy, would highly recommend looking into discounted models of this in person if you are looking for a better machine)

Hiyah, first post, so hope this is ok. Here is a really easy way of putting a loop on something you want to hang up. It takes seconds, and is easy enough even if you don’t find sewing very easy. Sorry the pictures are a bit large. I don’t know what it’s called, is there a name for it?

The spring rains are here, and Firefly tore her dog raincoat while chasing a rabbit today. I gave it a quick patch with some tenacious tape I had on hand from a backpack repair I did last year. Then I decided to grab some sharpies and personalize it.

I have no idea if the writing will hold up very long, but for now at least I think it's kinda cute! And done in time for her evening outdoor play time. Forgive the poor lighting; the rain is still coming down lol.

I was directed here from the quilting sub reddit and they said yall should be able to help me out. So I busted up the edge of a quilt I just bought and was wondering how i should go about fixing this. Ive never fixed clothes or anything before so any help would be appreciated!

The fabric is very thin and fragile and I'm not experienced. I'm very attached to this jacket and would love to try and save it. I worry that I'll just end up creating new holes.

Hey y'all, does anyone know about or how I can find more information about this technique in some Japanese fashion companies that use boro?

Mainly I'm having little luck (I think for lack of proper terms) finding out what it's called and how they seeming blend different types of denim to look flush or almost like 1 piece of fabric as pictured. I can't tell if it's literally just denim scraps that are boro'd thoroughly to achieve that effect or if they piece together different pieces of denim like it's a quilt.

Any thoughts, ideas, or knowledge on this would be much appreciated

The strap is no longer the same size so I can’t glue it back or anything. Anyone know where I am able to buy the strap from or fix it with something?

I've had this flannel for easily 10 years and wore it daily with the sleeves rolled up for much of that time. Eventually the elbows and rolled edges started to wear, so I stopped wearing it and retired it for a while. The other day I decided it deserved some attention once again and tried my hand at some simple patches!

Next time I think I'll finish the patches by rolling the edges, especially on a cuff like this since I wear them rolled up. But overall I'm super happy with the result and can't wait to wear this flannel again!

I’ve got all these holes in my work T-shirts, but I’ve never done mending on stretchy fabric before, only denim or cotton - is there something important I need to do for mending this type of material? Should I use a similar stretchy fabric for the patch or do I use a stable layer like cotton? All advice gratefully appreciated!