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Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things
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Mend, rethink, transform, recreate!
Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patching, darning, felting, stamping and a little crochet to worn pieces of clothing or household items. Instead of stowing or throwing away damaged pieces that hold happy memories, you can employ these beautiful and sustainable ideas to give them a new life.
With this book, you'll learn how to:
Creative as well as practical, mending is both a source of pleasure and an eco-friendly fashion statement. Instead of buying more stuff with less meaning, this method allows you to hold on to the things that have a special place in your heart.
Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patching, darning, felting, stamping and a little crochet to worn pieces of clothing or household items. Instead of stowing or throwing away damaged pieces that hold happy memories, you can employ these beautiful and sustainable ideas to give them a new life.
With this book, you'll learn how to:
- Repair knitted and woven fabrics
- Work with flat and curved surfaces
- Artfully repair comfy, well-made socks and gloves
- Make a statement with creative patching
- Fill in holes with roving using felting techniques
- Use embroidery to visibly mend frays or damage from the odd cat claw
- Apply other tips and techniques to torn, worn, or stained favorites
Creative as well as practical, mending is both a source of pleasure and an eco-friendly fashion statement. Instead of buying more stuff with less meaning, this method allows you to hold on to the things that have a special place in your heart.
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Reviews for Mending with Love
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a lovely little book with realistic projects and techniques. What I believe it os important is the message conveyed. Less of fast fashion and more sustainable living.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent source of inspiration for anyone looking into visible mending. While short, there's enough information to get you started on anything from socks, to shirts, to upcycling old fabrics (such as from old shirts). Highly recommended.
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