I darned my favorite cat socks

I’m a rebel and I darned my favorite cat socks. 😼 Do you mend your clothes?

I haven’t posted much mending since I created this account, but I do mend both my me-mades and my few remaining RTW clothes to keep them in use for longer than this fast-disposable-capitalist-planetkilling society wants. I usually don’t try very hard though because I don’t actually enjoy the process of mending, so just do what it takes to make things functional again. But I want to change my mindset and learn to enjoy the punk act of mending, as well as get better at it so my mends last longer and look cooler.

I used my darning loom with colorful threads to weave a patch over a small hole, and honeycomb darning to reinforce areas that had worn threadbare (technique found in @erinlewisfitzgerald’s book). I might need to go back and fill in the honeycomb circles more but for now I’m happy with them! I like using the darning loom too, the hooks lift up the weft (lengthwise) threads to make it easier to weave across, both ways. I also bought the @littlelemonloom pay-what-you-please instructions to make a simple loom to use with a normal embroidery hoop – I need a bigger one for the huge holes in my mending pile!

This year I want to learn embroidery, and I decided to keep my mending and embroidery stuff together – so now I have a treasure box filled with cute things to attack my mending pile with. Mending feels more fun and crafty now, instead of a chore to be avoided. I’m not the best hand stitcher, so darning is helping me practice controlled stitching that will help my embroidery 😎

Don’t ask me why there’s a paw in the photo, it appeared just as I pressed the button 🤷‍♀️ This dog is constantly trolling me

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