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#marchmending

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First go of a Spedeweave thing. These jeans look almost new except for where they keep being hoicked up by the belt loops, so I experimented with the new darning loom. Last time on these jeans I patched the inside and restitched the belt loops.

I do not recommend practising on the multi-layered parts of heavy denim garments before you've had a go on fabric that can be fitted into the tool but I managed. It feels like it's going to hold fairly well.

I was thinking last night that I was running out of things in my mending pile for #MarchMending but then I remembered that I fixed this mop yesterday 😅

I think this thing is over 20 years old and the velcro had finally come off so I replaced it with new stuff. I doubt the new glue will last another 20 years but one can hope!

Fond memories of this mop: my friends' kids were very excited by the telescoping handle and spent more than one afternoon fighting over who got to run around my apartment dusting the floors.

The paper I used to use to help warp my loom was getting pretty beat up, and this piece of burlap had been sitting in my laundry room for, approximately 5 years, so I cut a few inches off the side and machine sewed the edge to limit fraying. I'm not sure it's going to be the *best* possible replacement but it was sitting right there.

I'm counting this as #MarchMending adjacent, since the ultimate goal is to make my loom work better for me. Next up is lunch then to the shop to see if I can up my warping game a bit too.

#weaving @weaving

Supplies for my embroidery/mending plans made it in, but I had a more urgent pants situation to fix for today's #MarchMending

These particular pants probably need new ribbing for the back waistband but a bit of chain stitch will keep them going while I figure out if it's worth buying fabric for a bigger fix.

Also, searching for "mending the edge" got me a whole pile of questionable christian fiction instead of actual ideas. Anyone got favourite ways to deal with fraying hems and waists? That involves fabric and thread instead of religion? 😂

Today's mending looks a lot like yesterday's: I wore the socks for a bit and decided to extend the patch because there was still a bit that felt thin to my foot.

I don't think I can capture it in a photo but it's *very* noticeable how squashed the first patch has gotten and how thick the new extension feels. But it'll all feel the same by the time I'm done tonight's dog walk!

Today's #MarchMending project is socks! These ones had gotten thin but didn't have a hole yet, so I'm using duplicate stitch.

Most common question: can you feel this patch? Yes! But I find after wearing the socks for a few minutes it gets squished and I stop noticing. I've definitely never gotten a blister from a mend (and I'm extremely prone in that spot of my foot otherwise!)

Darning loom from Katrinkles: katrinkles.com/collections/men
(And it looks like they're running virtual workshops if you want to learn how to use one!) The loom works for woven patches but I like it for duplicate stitch too because of the way it stays put.

#mending #VisibleMending #socks #fiberarts @fiberarts