Visible mending upholstery

Lovable, cuddly and joyful as they are; many pets can wreak havoc in your home. Whether it’s an instinct to ‘go to ground’ and dig, or an attempt to mark their territory, it’s often the furniture that bears the brunt of the animal’s natural behaviour. Now I am no pet expert, but I can show you how I recently helped a client after her rabbit left her trusty footstool in a state, using visible mending techniques to a beautiful effect. It is lovely to know that so many people are now mending…

What you need to know before mending your clothing.

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

Pro Tips with Sarah Neubert | Discover the art of visible mending and how it can revitalize your furniture. In collaboration with fiber artist Sarah...

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.

Patch it, mend it, or darn it—visible mending is hot! Transforming a worn piece of clothing with vibrant stitchwork offers a great way to show off your handspun yarn.

Over the past few years we’ve seen a (welcome) resurgence in mending: taking a needle and thread to socks, sweaters, and kitchen linens as needed to help them last (and avoid buying new). It’s an old-fashioned solution that’s returned, in part, as an inch-by-inch, stitch-by-stitch holdfast against fast fashion and disposable culture. But patching isn’t […]