Visible Mending Tips

gorgeous "mendspiration" as we love to say ♥ Visible Mending is the art of turning your clothing into soft sculptures with added stitches, patches, and darning. It's a beautiful, essential, and low-cost way to build your sustainable wardrobe starting with what you already have. Dive in - and see where your stitches take you :)
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Sustainable Fashion 101
The best sustainable action is to fix what you already have. Visible Mending is the perfect way to turn holes, stains, or wear into a creative feature, with just some DIY stitches and a little bit of know-how. Pro tip for today: use a safety pin to easily mark all holes that need to be stitched. This helps you to plan your design, and helps to keep track of where you still need to repair!
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Sweater Mending
how I fixed both elbows on a very worn out garment.
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Creative Darning: Linked Patchwork
How can you patch a hole that’s bigger than your darning egg? Link them together at the edges! Learn how to tackle a big repair just one small section at a time for a playful patched look.
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Mending Threadbare Areas with Patchwork Darns
Start with one patch, and build outward to develop your own mendscape of darning. “Easy mode” in the blog shows how it’s done over threadbare spots, or dip into “hard mode” to experiment with a very weird technique I developed.
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Creative Darning: Linked Patchwork
How can you patch a hole that’s bigger than your darning egg? Link them together at the edges! Learn how to tackle a big repair just one small section at a time for a playful patched look.
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Playful patchwork darning
Mend it, and leave room to mend it again! This blog reveals my technique for building an organic patchwork of repaired holes or to reinforce a threadbare spot before a hole peeks through. It’s a little weird but it works.
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Elbow repair idea: Colour Blocked Darning
Instead of stressing about perfectly matched elbows, this time I built a sprawling asymmetrical design of smaller darned patches using my Swift Darning Loom. There’s an “easy mode” and “hard mode” way to do it, so come play!
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How thick of yarn can I darn with?
There's some flexibility in the types of yarn your Swift Darning Loom can weave with. This sample shows lace weight for the most delicate patches, but you can even go bulky with the right technique! Here is an overview of all the different options you can choose from to up your visible mending game.
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Creative Visible Mending
Asymmetrical patchwork darning using my Swift Darning Loom.
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Playful patchwork darning
Mend it, and leave room to mend it again! This blog reveals my technique for building an organic patchwork of repaired holes or to reinforce a threadbare spot before a hole peeks through. It’s a little weird but it works.
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Don’t Toss It—Mend It!
Mending isn’t just for grannies! It’s an easy, rewarding way to extend the life of your wardrobe. Learn why it’s worth every stitch.
a person is holding a comb and sewing on the back of a flowered shirt
Playful patchwork darning
Mend it, and leave room to mend it again! This blog reveals my technique for building an organic patchwork of repaired holes or to reinforce a threadbare spot before a hole peeks through. It’s a little weird but it works.
someone is holding up an old sock that has been stitched into it with yarn
Visible Mending
Patchwork darning on elbow sleeve