Erin Eggenburg's Embroidery Blog
A contemporary practice of traditional Japanese mending
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When you are planning a sashiko style visible mending project, take some time to consider the garment. A mending project can take an afternoon or months of little by little mending. Either way, when the mending is finished, it is a different garment from the original, and to me, feels like a work of art.
Mending in Modern Times
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Finding creative ways to mend and extend the life of loved clothing.
Visible Mending as Wearable Art
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I've been working on a handful of sashiko projects, and was feeling comfortable enough in my skill to branch out into a variation that has my contemporary style combined with more traditional sashiko style mending.
Embroider Your Own Patches
Hand embroidered patches are beautiful, filled with hundreds of stitches. Now you can make your own handmade patch. Each patch kit comes with printed instructions and all of the materials you'll need to embroider a patch!
DIY Project: Salvaging Ravaged Clothing with Visible Stitching
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Using a sashiko style visible mending and some simple scraps of fabric, I added new life to this previously determined disaster of a jean jacket headed for the landfill.