Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things

Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite ThingsRip in your jeans? Snag in a sweater? Tear in a tea towel? They all present an opportunity for one of a kind creativity! With this fun introduction to unconventional mending techniques in a format that's half how to guide, half idea book, anyone can give worn and torn items new life. Start by learning hand mending methods, including boro, embroidery, patching, and darning. Then rev up the sewing machine for fast mends that put the pedal to the metal.

one twin size quilt batting

The book came about after helping hundreds of women knit for their body type – and knitting ability

2 m) yards of 1 ½” (3

with a nice fluid drape

We appreciate and value the opportunity to employ this growing community of skilled craftspeople in Nepal and happily embrace the natural

faux fly front

is a modern slim-fitting design with athletic sizing

Alum is also used with some natural dyes as a mordant

Increasing

easy-care superwash merino blends

My grandmother used this design to create my baby quilt

there are handy conversion charts and yarn standards tables for reference