Erin Eggenburg's Mending Blog
Patching a Pocket Puncture
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Repair rips in your favorite jeans, giving them new life, and a cool visible mending embellishment! Using sashiko style mending, Erin Eggenburg repairs jeans otherwise meant for the landfill.
Sashiko changed my life!
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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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When my favorite pair of jeans became too threadbare around the thighs, I wondered if it was it. I love these jeans, so it was worth the "experimend" to try and save them.
Read on for a mending lesson that can add years of life to your denim!
DIY Project: Salvaging Ravaged Clothing with Visible Stitching
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Using 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.
Read on for a look into this hand embroidered repair.