Erin Eggenburg's Mending Blog — upcycle
Sashiko + Denim = True Love
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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.
Beginning Mending: A Guide to the Tools You Need & How to Use Them
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Make it simple. What materials do I need to start mending? You are in the right place! I pulled together a collection of materials that I think are a must to get started with visible mending, and how and why they are used in mending. Most of these materials can be found at your local craft shop. Needles I like to use sashiko needles for mending jeans. They come in a variety of lengths and thicknesses. When it comes to stitching through 1 or 2 layers of denim, you need a thick, sharp needle to pierce through the layers efficiently....
Repairing Denim Worn Paper-Thin: Using Visible Mending to Fix Your Jeans
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There comes a time in every well-worn pair of jeans life (especially if there is lycra involved), when the fronts of the thighs begin to wear past the comfy stage, and into the paper-thin-afraid-to-wear-out-of-the-house-for-fear-of-tearing-wide-open stage.
Read on for a step by step mending tutorial. Sashiko style visible mending.
Visible Mending: Weak in the Knees
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Those cute pre-ripped jeans are great, until one day you crouch down, and riiip. And there's your leg. Is it over? Should you throw them out? Read on for the complete repair prescription.
Mending Project: Wide Legged Levi's & Kimono Scraps
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This is a pair of Levi's 569 32 X 30. The legs were so wide, I wanted to give them more of a feminine feel with the visible mending.
Before I start any denim mend, I cut off all of the excess strings and fluff, leaving a clean denim edge. This often makes the rips appear much larger, so make sure not to cut your patches until you have cut away all of the damaged denim.
After cutting off all of the excess, I cut patches 1/2"- 3/4" larger than the hole you are repairing. Then, secure the patch by pinning all the way around the hole.