Mending jacket

Advice for visible mending, including how to make sure you're using the right needle, how to choose colours for visible mending, and how to know if a garment or darning yarn will be durable. This is one of several blogs answering your mending and knitwear repair questions

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.

Arounna Khounnoraj on Instagram: "I would normally mend this hole by patching, but decided on using a weave mend. Normally you will see this technique used on knitwear, but it works for small holes on wovens too. John’s shirts are sometimes hard to stitch because there’s always bits of dried glue from his wood working. I think holes should be celebrated so I make them visible 😄👍🏼 I used sashiko thread and when you first try a weave mend try to space out the warp because it will make it…

Upcycling and organising are among the ways fashionistas are giving their wardrobes a longer life. Bel Jacobs explores how caring for our clothes also means caring for the planet.

Tsumugi kaketsugi（Invisible Mending Services ✨🧵） on Instagram: "This time, we would like to introduce a case of repairing scratches on a jacket. If it gets caught on something sharp, it can tear like this. Even if there is no remaining fabric, it can be removed from an invisible part of the slacks or jacket of the set, so please do not give up and consult us. There was a bit of fading, so there are slight square repair marks remaining, but the overall result is relatively clean. We…

Sashiko mending on a vintage Lee jeans jacket.

Today we will introduce an example of how to repair a scratch on a plain jacket by kaketsugi it up! It is easy to insert the thread in the wrong place...