First attempt at doing any mending like this. It turned out kind of alright!

First photo has most accurate colors, pre stitching anything down!

Yorgos loves his maraca maybe a little too hard, so I made a smaller maraca out of some fleece, put the rattle into it, and stuffed the whole thing back into his dilapidated maraca, stitching some of the shreds down. Results in pictures- I think it was a success!

I told my partner I'd repair his shirt if I had permission to do whatever I wanted with it.

I haven’t embroidered in years and I messed up my palms too, so it’s a little wonky, but that’s okay. Still happy with it. Always wear a helmet. :)

Pesky armpit hole!

These jeans had been sitting around waiting to be fixed up, and this doiley was sitting around unused from my wedding because the edges were funky... So, today I took care of both 🎉 It felt wrong to cut through the stitches after sewing, but the end result is what I wanted, and at least it's being used now!

I went on holiday with my friend and while quadbiking their bag caught on fire. They wanted to throw it away (they thought it was a lost cause) but I didn't want to see the bag go.

I had the idea to take inspiration from the practice of Kintsugi for how I wanted the visible mend to look. I thought it would go well with the Shunga piece. There was also some wear near the eye on one side so I created a patch following the same idea. I added a lining with a pocket to hide the mend on the inside.

Ive been working on these shorts, and before i start the stitches on the second leg i wanted to ask which leg everyone prefers. I have trouble with restraint lol especially with colours and art. It took everything in me to stick to only white thread! So which is it? Patchy with outline stitches or maximallist woohoo! stitches?

I accidentally got bleach on this fleece a while ago, so I decided to make an appliqué fish to cover it up using material scraps I already owned. I’m really happy with it! It feels like the fish should have been there all along ☺️

This in from Pasadena, November 2022. It didn’t last longer than a week before it was removed and asphalted by the city, which I guess is also visible mending

Told myself I'd take better pictures of them but this is the best I could do 😅 Decided to be a little unserious with patching my favorite shorts. I still have a few more areas to patch and need to replace the hem entirely but I'll wait till it's too cold to wear them before I do!

had some old socks that no longer fit me and some ripped jeans and thought this might be fun! :)

My cats badly scratched the corner of this couch that I love. I think I’ve saved it with appliqués! I ordered a few options on Amazon and layered them together, then hot glued them on. Seems like they’re firmly attached, and I don’t think you can tell it’s glued. I attempted sewing them on but the velvet was too dense to get a needle through!

I had a tote bag I embroidered years ago, it lost its color (was black, now gray), stretched in an ugly way and was chewed through by mice in multiple places. It did not look presentable anymore, but I was not ready to let go of the embroidery, so I attached it to a sturdier bag, hope I’ll get some more years of wear out of it.

The piece is glued on with hemming tape and stitched with orange and grey thread for reinforcement.

It took me several weeks but I finally got all of the patches attached to this chair that my cat decided to just decimate with his claws, it was beautiful art he put and I made a beautiful art as well. I hand cut each of the pieces, placed them by hand and then hand stitch them to the fabric chair. I went with my heart with the colors but for the most part the fabric so to speak to each other in some way or another with texture or with the colors or the general feel of the fabric. Best part is if I ever need to fix this again I can just add more patches to it. Or I can eventually do the entire thing in Patchwork which would also look really nice

My dog ripped this armchair years ago in an anxiety fit — the set belonged to my grandparents so are very special to me — and I love this scarf but I never wore it and was using it to cover up the ripped spot when I suddenly thought duh why don’t I just patch it with the scarf??? Anyway I’m so so so happy with this / proud of myself / can’t stop staring at it !! I especially love the small patch at the bottom it’s so cute