I've taken to doing mending work for peoples birthdays since i hate shopping and giving baubles. Everyone has been very excited and grateful

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Now that is a great idea!! Mending for birthday gifts is a brilliant idea!! Thankyou for sharing! I'm going to share this too as I think lots of people will like to start this too! 😄

@snookiedoo

4 жыл бұрын

How sweet of you! What a useful and kind gift.

@cynthiasloan3867

4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful idea! I am definitely using this :)

@geministargazer9830

4 жыл бұрын

It definitely is a gift since I don’t like mending lol

@marylhere

4 жыл бұрын

I would probably offer ironing. How many wonderful Rayon dresses are at the thrift store just needing a good pressing. If I am not in a rush ironing is very therapeutic.

during my college days in the Hippie years, I had a favorite pair of jeans that showed less and less denim and more and more patches. my patches had patches because I used fabric scraps based on how pretty they were instead of how sturdy.

@fortysomethingbadgirls2173

4 жыл бұрын

I have shirts from that era i wont part with! Tiny holes but still wearable! I handwash and line dry my cotton tees! Longer life! Jeans....same era! Holes and all!

@saisonusgeekus6719

4 жыл бұрын

I had jeans like that as a teenager! 💚 At one point I couldn't figure out what was supposed to be attached to what, so I put on a pair of cute boxer shorts, then my jeans, then roughly stitched them together while wearing them before I could properly finish the mending ^^ (i.e. cutting the excess boxer fabric and reinforcing the seams...)

@rhonddalesley

4 жыл бұрын

Nelda Hargo I bet they looked amazing!

I've started mending my (very cheap) socks, and I've extended the life of them for so much longer! When they finally, truly fall apart, I'll probably get better socks.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

It's true that the quality of alot things we buy, are almost not worth the effort! I agree buying better quality from the start acually gives you more options in extending the life! And better to practice on these ones then too! 😉❤

@isabellelee2658

4 жыл бұрын

I mend socks also. They last twice as long or more! Used to have a problem of my big toe cutting the sock. Don't know why but it stopped happening.

@twilafreek25

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason I had never thought of mending socks. I definitely have some in need of a fix. What a great opportunity to practice!

"Should I darn or should I patch?" Dang, now It's stuck in my head with the tune of the Clash's "Should I stay or should I go?"

@d.rabbitwhite

4 жыл бұрын

I thought similar.

@geministargazer9830

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe sew that button back?

@janehollander1934

4 жыл бұрын

👌🏻😂Thank you for passing that earworm on 😉😂✌🏻

I completed all of my mending before the end of last year and I have you to thank for getting me started, Evelyn. The jacket I told you needed serious mending I ended up having to go inside it and serg all the seams from the shoulders to the arms to the side seams including the lining. The jacket is silk and one I have worn a million times, but when it began coming a part in places that is when I discovered its poor construction. Just because a garment is purchased from a high-end department store, a pretty penny is paid for it or it has a designer name attached does not mean quality. And, this is not the first time I have encountered this. Only a straight stitch was used on the jacket with no attention detail whatsoever. It was about profit not creating a quality garment that would last. Now, that I have done what should have been done in the first place the jacket will last for many more years to come.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!! I'm so glad you took the effort to mend it! But yes, when you get inside it can be surprising!!

Visible mending reminds me of the story of how broken China is fixed with gold to celebrate the break and show it makes us stronger? I love that xx

@saragianettitamargo990

3 жыл бұрын

That is the concept of wabi-sabi. ❤️

@jlunadungca3845

2 жыл бұрын

@@saragianettitamargo990 Kintsugi actually! Wabi-sabi is related though, which makes sense since both are Japanese concepts. Wabi-sabi is part of the original making process or the aesthetic approach overall-making the object in a way that embraces imperfection. Both are wonderful concepts!

I was taught mending at an early age by my mother who grew up in hard times - so mending was a given for her. But as my busy life progressed with a demanding job, home, and kids, she always offered to do my complicated mending/patching/darning for which I was so grateful - I hated it! Now that she is gone I appreciate her skills passed on to me as well as the techniques in your videos. Mending is still one of my least favorite things, but I have a greater appreciation for its necessity.

My elderly Mom (1934-2017) had a cute little "darning basket" [probably passed down from her elderly Mother] filled with darning wool and a wooden darning-mushroom. For darning my Dad's (1931-2019) socks. But my Dad also would darn his own socks and could even sew.

"it's only fabric." You have touched on one of the hardest steps for me to get over! I need to figure out how to make a meme of you saying that and make it my phone wallpaper. :-)

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

😀😀 That would be so fun! I'm always here to cheer you on!! Though I've never made one either....

@saisonusgeekus6719

4 жыл бұрын

I need to write that somewhere in my fabric closet, where there is beautiful fabric left untouched because I am afraid to mess up 🤦

I enjoy fixing up clothes. Last fall I got a long vintage wool winter coat for free. It needed two buttons replaced and the lining fixed. Originally I got the coat because I liked the pin on it. I fixed the lining. I replaced the two sleeve buttons with two from my stash. They matched pretty well. One button near the neck was missing, so I cut off the inside button and placed that at the neck. Then I replaced the inside button with another from my stash. I have a friend who tells me I should just get rid of a lot of my stuff. No I won't! Everything is organized and having the stash has saved me so much money.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!!! I agree having a stash saves you money, and from buying new stuff all the time too!! Keep up the great work! 😀

Mending has become fun. Usually they are fast projects and the challenge is to make a good, solid, and attractive mend. It feels responsible and grown up to do this. Its often visible so finding ways to camouflage or disguise the patch is the goal. Appliques and trimmings are a must!

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear your finding mending so fun!! 😀 Finding the right 'Camouflage' can be quite fun and creative I think too!

I have a "sewing season," or did have. I live where we get a couple feet of snow during the winter so I sew. I would have so much pilled up to fix that it would take a couple weeks to catch up but, that was be ok because I'd service my machines and relearn some sewing skills to carry me along. I find when I'm in the sewing season my mending gets done on a daily bases usually with morning coffee and the news. I'm now re-doing long sleeve shirts to short sleeve, I call it my recreational mending as I haven't worn them because they are long sleeve and just hung.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I love this! That's the dream right.... being snowed in and nothing to do but your sewing! 🤣🤣

I've been mending clothes since childhood, so over 30 years now. It's not my favourite activity though (bit tedious and I get bored quickly) so I tend to put it off but when I do get round to it I manage to do quite a bit. Most of my mending is invisible, that's my preference, but I'm partial to a cute heart shaped patch or a crocheted star if it's going to be on show.

@geministargazer9830

4 жыл бұрын

Anna Mitchell I prefer invisible mending as well but I put a huge heart shaped patch on the butt of my pj pants where my dog had chewed them. I don’t mind so much on pjs lol

@theclumsyprepper

4 жыл бұрын

@@geministargazer9830 You can't beat a heart shaped patch as far as I'm concerned 😁

What happened to mending Monday. I started mending things and it led me to repair knitwear, even cashmere with a sizeable hole in it. Traditional darning; Swiss Method; Duplicate Stitch; felting a small hole; glue fluff into a tiny hole; use a little weaving device with very decorative colours - even create a checked effect. etc, etc. I hadn't realised just how many different ways there are of 'darning' repairing a hole or worn piece. My own contribution to this is to get fine wool and knit binding to cover the edge of the cuffs of a jacket or to shorten a long jacket (very old). It looks great! It could be sometimes more of a chit chat while you mend - I'm sure your subscribers would love to hear what you've been up to even if it's not a lot. I really enjoy watching your videos, thank you from Scotland.

I attended the University of Colorado Boulder in the 1980's and there was a student from Germany who had a pair of patched Levi 501s. He had patched them every time they started to wear out, and he chose a different patch fabric every time. The pants had over 50 patches on them, giving evidence of how dear the jeans were to him. This was back in the day that Europeans often had to pay over $100 dollars for Levis. The effect was stunning!! Of course he biked everywhere in them, and he had a nice muscular physique. I think the jeans should have been featured in a fashion magazine. If I had been a yearbook photographer back then, I would have immortalized them in the yearbook. I wonder if he still has them in a trunk today?? Love you, love your look and your vibe! Just Subscribed.

I’m a nearly 60 year old guy whose ideal of mending is keeping 30 year old cars running. So I’m probably not the typical person watching your videos. I came to this video today because I found a hole in my favorite pair of sweat pants (Joggers on your side of the pond?). Mending those might seem silly to most of the people here but again, being a 60 year old guy I probably have a different idea of what clothing items are important to me. The reason that I’m posting is that after watching this video and your video on darning I wanted to thank you for bringing back childhood memories from the 1960’s. Both my mom and grandma had darning baskets with filled with items that needed to be darned. I can remember that they both had burned out lightbulbs in their baskets but I didn’t know until I Iearned today what the lightbulbs were for. So thank you for that memory and education, but I want to thank you even more and for your upbeat personality on your video, I like many others here, was smiling back at the screen as I watched the videos. And I’m sure that I continue to smile as I watch more.

I've been sewing for 50 years and I love fixing and mending - because every fix is different and unpredictable and I enjoy the challenge!

Chubby old lady with a chubby grand niece here. Just completed altering two dresses for the Easter season coming up. Also had to invisibly weave a sweater neck band today. I nicked it with a rotary cutter. I remember feeling like time paused as I looked at the fine gauge neckband with a slice a half inch deep. The stitch witchery was at hand, and a small amount was trimmed and eased into the slash. Of course the iron was warm and ready, and I melted the web inside the neck band. (I did all of this holding my breath in a semi fugue state) I began to breath again and considered what to do. It was a new sweater with the tag, button and scrap of mending yarn in the little bag. I have mended over the glued in place cut. It looks like there was a slub in the yarn. It is pretty well done. I am still going to put a few embroidered appliques on the sweater to hide the mend and make it look like I meant to do this.

@margiecook6379

4 жыл бұрын

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@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Great job on this one!!

Alterations are huge right now. can you continue doing a series on alterations of clothes, it goes with mending beautifully

Excellent subject. It’s lovely to see things changing so fast now with more and more people mending, learning to sew and starting to value their clothing. If you make or mend something you become invested in that garment which gives it personal value 😍. PS. I love you Rose pin. So sweet x

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

You are right about personal value in the things we make or mend! When yoy create anything with your own hands it not only brings value to those items, but an appreciation for the effort in all handmade goods!❤

@refashionrose9499

4 жыл бұрын

Evelyn Wood totally 😃

@GypsyDove

2 жыл бұрын

I've mended my clothes since I was a teen. Not only does it give clothing longer life with visable mending it adds character over time an makes memories.

VintageSewingSchool is excellent, I have grown hugely more comfortable with sewing and would recommend it to anyone who wants clear and succinct How To instruction. I signed up ~3 months ago because I figured it would be a good fit for someone with an old straight stitch only machine, and that has been the case. Great solid basics, well worth the small investment. My sewing confidence has improved greatly, and I look at clothing in a whole new way.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

😍😍 Awww this makes my day to hear how your sewing confidence is improving! Thankyou for sharing! We have the best group of members don't we?! And I'm so lucky to have such wonderful students like you! I look forward to seeing your creations!! ❤

Monday mending is a great idea! I like taking mending on road trips. I started darning in high school and love it! I've began experimenting with visible mending on my clothes but still try to keep my husband's more subtle. I have trouble mending his strong enough to last though, since he's tougher on clothes. Nice and informative video!

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Taking your mending on road trips is a great idea!! (I assume your not driving 😂) Los of down time for hand sewing!!

@geministargazer9830

4 жыл бұрын

I have to keep mending my partner’s jeans. I patch the inside and match the blue thread and then sew back and forward on the grain to fix the patch on. It’s nice and sturdy and fairly invisible if you match the thread colour well. But if you’re having trouble with sturdiness of the mend I recommend reinforcing with a patch on the inside and/or using heavier thread

I've been mixing my mending for a while - areas that are getting a little (or a lot!) thin on fabric items which should probably be patched, but I've chosen a thin fabric to invisibly reinforce from underneath/inside so that darning stitches can be used over it and also fill in very small holes that might have developed, without putting more strain on the piece I'm mending. I find that putting in a more robust patch/darn can strain older, worn surrounds and make for more mending on things that get pulled about in use. It helps where complete replacement isn't really practical, especially on constructed things like my kids' favourite old toys :) Visible mending is good, but not always appropriate on some things.

I hadn’t realised that so many people weren’t mending until I started to here about visible mending. For once in my life I was ahead? Of the trend!

I patched up some jeans! I struggled quite a bit, having issues getting the patch to sit correctly when getting the jeans under my machine. After I hand basted it first it was a walk in a park to sew on! It feels so good to have unusable jeans turned into functioning jeans, they're not pretty but they're good as home pants.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Advice to live by that is... 'if struggling, baste!' 😄❤

I grew up , and was taught how to darm, patch, mend zips etc. As I grew up, out on a farm, and a big family. Now its going full circle. I remember cutting buttons of the shirts etc when they were turned into rags. Jeans, trousers, and dresses/skirts took out the zips to be re-used at a later date. Jeans being saved if beyond mending for patches. Darned socks, jerseys.

4 minutes and 22 seconds into this video my son comes to me to let me know he needs his favorite pair of bed pants fixed because the crotch gave out. I looked at him and said ITS NOT MONDAY 🤣

Love my mending Mondays! Most things wait til Monday except when a grandchild needs a repair. It still makes me smile for the little ones to bring me their. Dolls or stuffed animals or blankies etc. To repair. Then the over twenties bring clothes, quilts etc. Or their child's things for me to fix. The older and younger both seem to think I can see anything. I always tell them that it is mended with love. By the way thru this I have taught all of them ,boys and girls, to sew buttons on, hem things, and how to do their on repairs. They seem to think mines the best. They tell me I will never get to old to sew.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

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Nice outfit, Evelyn. I especially like how your brooch matches exactly with the colour of your scarf. Very nice.

Thanks Evelyn this is a timely video for me ! I just got out my favourite wool cardigan for winter and saw it had moth holes on the sleeves !! I was soo mad as I love it so much but now I won’t throw it out I’m going to give some visible mending a go! Karina 🙂

Great topic, yes, I still do the Monday Mend thing on Mondays, I’m still behind but have made some great strides, thanks to your inspirations. The different techniques are fascinating. I don’t to the Instagram but I guess I’ll learn to use it eventually. I’ve not hopped on board with the world of apps but maybe someday. I wonder if you can do a video of some of the different mending techniques used by everyone, I think that would be really interesting to see. Well happy sewing everyone!! ✂️🧵✂️

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Mary I thought about doing a feature video of all the Monday Menders 🤔 Thanks for the idea!

Thank you Evelyn love to see your smile each time. And thank you for the video of mending.

Hi ! a little tip for darning thights or every really light fabric : use one of your hair as a thread and watch the magic happen

I have retired and am supplementing my income by teaching sewing classes and doing alterations. I used to hate doing alterations but now I love helping people by repairing and altering clothing for them! Evelyn have you talked about the top on your dress form in the background? I have been looking at it for the last couple of vlogs and really liking it. It looks like it could be a upcycled men’s button down shirt. I would love to try to make one. Please let me know if it is in a previous vlog I missed or could you talk about it?

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Well spotted! That top is indeed a refashioned mens shirt! It's a workshop I have available at vintagesewingschool.com as part of membership in the school! You can join and get the step by step workshop anytime! I'd love to have you in class!

I love using differently shaped patches to disguise mends or indelible stains, with extra patches elsewhere to make it look like part of my design, but visible mending is lovely too, especially on a good quality wool garment. I love darning my hand knitted socks, too.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Oh so good!! Did you knit them? Have you tried re knitting??

@attilathehen1555

4 жыл бұрын

Evelyn Wood yes, I knitted them. I will probably re-knit the feet at some point, when darns need re-darning, but as I use yarn that is up to 25% synthetic, they are very hard wearing. My few pairs of 90-100% wool socks need repeated darning, which is probably why darning socks was such a big part of mending in the past. I also knit random stripe socks from the ball ends, so I have some crazy ones! It doesn’t matter what colour you use to darn those. 🤣

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting about the 100% wool wearing more!

I have other pairs of slacks that have fitted waists and don't fit anymore because of all the weight I have lost over the past 20 years - I think this is called alterations that are needed not mending. I am not sure how to do it and I am in your course already. :)

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Marilyn yes, I woukd say technically an alteration too! Inside VSS you want to look on the course on Refashioning and Fit, for skirts. Skirts and pants are the same at the waist and are almost the same alteration for this, so it shows you in there! 😄

I'd love to hear your thoughts on keeping your wardrobe to a manageable size. I haven't bought any commerical/new clothing in 3 years but my closet is overflowing because of sewing projects (often with repurposed and/or gifted fabric). I'm hesitant to pare down to a capsule wardrobe because I love my creations and try to wear it ALL in its own season, but laundry is so overwhelming. You make new projects all the time - how do you keep your garment storage from filling up, and your laundry days from being too much to handle?

@geministargazer9830

4 жыл бұрын

Kate Parker do you wash after every wear? I often wear things a couple of times before washing. I’ll hang a dress back up in the cupboard if it doesn’t need washing. Might save you on laundry lol

@ottie1954

4 жыл бұрын

I also have this problem ...moreover I nearly never throw things away 🙄 ...soon my flat will burst 😧 I have an open place where I keep clothes I have worn once...

@keric3730

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering that too. I watch the bloggers who promote minimalism, and i think about clothes quantity in a whole different way than I used to a few years ago. Of course this KZread makes clothes for herself as a way to promote her business, so she had to think about more than just what she might need.

Inspired and encouraged by you! Thanks 🙂

I'm here to hopefully work out how to mend hopes in my cats surgical recovery onesie...paws crossed!xx

Hi Evelyn! This week I have two things: a camisole and a pair of jeans. The camisole’s previous owner opened the side seam halfway down one side, hiding a snip in the seam. Now the jeans weren’t any easier. They had a long rip from the yoke to the knee and of course, it was directly beside the pocket, which meant removing stitches on that side of the pocket to get to the rip. I finished mending both and they looked very professional, thanks to your many tips! #mondaymending

Okay!! I'm downloading all of these ! I can't express how highly I value these AND all your videos. Thank you.

I put a safety pin on the garment where the mend is needed. Also pin on a stain on a garment so it can be treated when laundering.

Another fantastic video, but that brooch is gorgeous.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I just found you on youtube, what great tips!! I am a lover of all things vintage too

I love all your videos and learn a lot from them! I am a self-taught mender and fitter (I always need darts and waist adjustments for my hourglass shape) since I was a child. My nieces (6 & 9 y.o.) love me repairing their favorite garments, specially when I use pretty patches. I think iron-on are easier for beginners, although I always reinforce them with a line of stitching. I also often fussy cut patterns from novelty fabrics as decorative patches.

Evelyn, when you use embroidery floss, to separate the strands, tap on the top.

Lol, i’ve been looking at my blankets for weeks. They are riddled with holes and I’ve finally bought sewing supplies.

Lockdown helped me get all my mending and sewing pile down 👍 very satisfying

I Love this. I'm going to try to use the darning or hidden patch behind.. on a blouse of my sisters. It had two tears when I saw her last. She didn't know it.. and I'm going to try to see if I can make it work again for her. Thank You for this video.

You make a good point. I started trying to refashion clothes that I just couldn't seem to bring myself to get rid of. I messed some pieces up. But honestly, what difference does that make in the long run. They weren't doing anything for me in the pile and I learned a few things. Hopefully, I'll get better at it.

I tried to post on Monday mending but no luck! I have a 30 year old dress that I love but wore in the strangest place ,,,the shoulder seams ,,,so I will attempt to mend it

Thank you so much Evelyn. I really really enjoyed listening to you. I really really would like to see you darn something to make it decorative, as I have a jacket that two Gulls damaged whilst trying to pinch my ice cream!!!!!!! I really really would like to do some embroidery over the holes and make it a feature. xxx Mags

Hi Everyone, I also find when I look at the new clothes for sale at the local shops, that they would all need alterations to make them fit me. They are usually too long, or too floppy and I know I will look frumpy if I even try them on. As well, I find they are not made in a fabric that I think is cool. Polyester is just not cool in Queensland, Australia.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Polyester should be banned north of the boarder! 😂😂😂

I found I needed to change the elastic in the waist of my old trackpants - such a simple job and so really worth the effort. Thanks Evelyn for the idea. :)

This year my sewing mojo took a dive. Believe all this stay at home stuff (and me being 68 y.o. it's important) did it as I no longer buy stashes. Mending took its place. Really didn't get a lot of satisfaction out of it but it needed done and seeing my stack slowly go down was good. Not good at all of it but your video has given me some hope of getting ahead of the game. Now I laugh because there was a day when I said I'd rather make a new garment than fix a broken zipper. That day ended.

I couldn't hide my mending pile from you! Thanks for poking me and I look forward to posting my mending problems on IG.

Just needed this to mend my dad's pants. great timing! :-)

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent timing!!

Great video! Thank you 🙏

you're such a fantastic teacher, & I'm R E A L L Y glad you have a youtube channel. thank you for being here & for doing the things you do for us ♥♥♥♥♥ p.s. I'm desperately trying to teach myself darning so I can repair mine & my boyfriend's clothes when needed & these videos have been quite helpful ♥

I am embroidering leaves over the worn areas on my jeans.

Thank you!

Even if you do have to buy fast fashion occasionally, not destroying it in the dryer and mending things means keeping things for years instead of months :)

Brilliant, she explains so well!

So great.

Hi Evelyn!! I take my mending with my when possible, when I’m sitting & waiting to be seen.. When visiting family or while sitting in passenger seat... 💜💜🧵🧵

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great way to use those times that are otherwise lost!!

You are such a sweet lady with a very sweeter accent. Thank you for the video.

I mended the pocket to my pants the other day and I'm on top of the world

Great Work🐦🐦🐦

Looked you up on Instagram & subbed here on YT. YEA! This is what I need as my mending skills have been limited to seams & buttons. I think this is About To Change❤

Very nice video :) thank you for the motivation! I have a few items on my pile which I couldn't mend invisibly. Now I want to own it and stitch something pretty :)

We're farmers so quite a lot of time mending work clothes, and salvaging fabrics from anything un-mendable. I'm 62 and have my Nana's darning mushroom which i use on socks. If you dont have an egg/mushroom, you can use an orange or apple

How about showing how you do french seams on curves & fell (feld?) seams. 🙂

@NYCisland

3 жыл бұрын

She has videos on different types of seams. And I've watched the other people do videos on the same subject. Sometimes how it's explained by someone else makes more sense so I find it good to watch multiple tutorials.

How do you know?!? I'm really smiling at the monitor, every time I watch and listen to you! :-D

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

😀😀😀 I knew it!! ❤

@maggiekedves

4 жыл бұрын

How can anyone not smile 😉 just love the sweet tone of the old-time teacher 😍 and Evelyn's accent is just a joy to listen to as well.

I hope you found this useful! Let me know, do you consistently mend already? Or about to start and join us in #mondaymending?? 😀 (And if you have any mending questions for me, leave me a comment and just ask, I might just make a video on it!)

@l.baughman1445

4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!! And the Japanese mending Sashiko is “SÁ-she-KOH”

:-) You make me smile! Thank you for your encouragement to learn!

Great topic love it

I often first work on mending my existing clothes before a new project. But I have a dress and a tanktop lying around where I just can't figure out how to go about because the are Jersey and I want to mend more decorative on those items because of the place or sheer number of holes. I'm definitely trying out sashiko some time soon when the opportunity comes up.

My mom's brother had carved her a darning tool shaped like a light bulb, I use a lightbulb.

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a wooden lightbulb, but now I want one!! 😄

@danielleroymaughan9684

4 жыл бұрын

I will be looking for mom's on my next visit . Great idea isn't it ?

@anne-marie9842

4 жыл бұрын

danielle maughan My mum had one shaped like a toadstool. I don’t know where it’s now. I use a torch for darning socks, the light helps seeing what you’re doing.

@danielleroymaughan9684

4 жыл бұрын

Anne- Marie brilliant !

@deborahkyllo9626

4 жыл бұрын

They sell the wooden darning tools at the JoAnn’s.

Thank you so much.....

Hy! You remembered I have a "mushroom" from my grandmother! He use it for the"holes" in soks!

Pleasure to listen

any tips for wider areas of wear? i'm someone with thicker thighs and the inner thigh is always the first place to go on any trousers or shorts. i recently had a pair of jersey knit pyjama trousers develop small holes and i made a failed attempt at darning them, both because i didn't really quite know what i was doing, and because looking at the area of fabric in general i could tell a much wider radius of it was just generally wearing out. it feels like the area is too big just to throw a patch behind, but going hole by hole as they appear would probably end up being way more frustrating. are there any other preventative measures i could take to shore up future inner thigh areas of trousers in any fabric?

thanks for the tips

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!😀

Watched on smart tv .

Thank youyo gt me movated on mending you are supe ut sweet ? A great sewe

I have some nightgowns which have been torn all in the same place: the back of the shoulder...and the more I look at them, the less I am able to plan a mending 😖 because the fabric is broken...

Maybe on this long weekend I will finally get around to my mending pile.

I think I am so weird because when you smile I smile back at like some demented baby. Yea for Monday Mending!

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 See I knew I wad right about your smiling faces! ❤

With fast fashion often a part of a seam like at the shoulders come undone and frayed. How do I mend it? Cannot just re stitch...

I never minded doing mending for members of my family and friends; but, when a rude college student dumped her pants on my 90 year old mother, I become upset. I did the mending for my mother; and, I put a note in a pocket of the pants (stating that I would not do it again ). The job was done for free. Why could she (the student) not ask me herself? That was years ago, and I still get upset over it.

Have you any suggestions to mending a small hole in a very obvious spot on the sleeve of a man's wool sportcoat? Further description is its about 3mm diameter circle and the fabric is a subtle plaid on a charcoal gray background. It's in the gray area thankfully, not on a line intersection of blue, green and gray! Personally I'm not into internet socializing other than you tube. I'm too suspicious about the app developers. Who are they? Where are they? 😕 Anyway, any help you can provide would be much appreciated. I love the jacket and would hate to just chuck it. The small black hole is just so obvious it looks bigger than it actually is. You know the type. Thanks so much, Cheers!

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

You likley fix that tiny hole with some darning in matching thread, thread from the actual fabric if you can get some would be nearly invisible!

I have a question. My favourite pair of jeans suddenly ripped right across the back of the upper thigh, almost seam to seam. It's a very clean, straight rip that follows the grain perfectly. I don't want to create a new seam or a visible mend in that strange place so I was thinking I'm going to maybe attempt to darn that huge tear. I think it would make for a much more seamless fix but I know it would take FOREVER. Is there something better you'd suggest to fix this?

Ha! I use a small lightbulb.

We used a light bulb as a darning mushroom growing up.

I love all of your videos! I have a quick question, do you recommend a Singer Serger like the one you have here in the background?

@Evelyn__Wood

4 жыл бұрын

I've had it maybe 15 years, still works fine!

im a idiot, the first video I saw before I got 2 minutes in I asked if you were in period outfits, if I had checked I would have known what it is you do lol, my apologies. great work though hopefully this style comes back , similar maybe to the Dapper style .

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Do you have a Monday Mending playlist?

Hi Evelyn

How would I mend pants that have a hole in the leg area??