I tried mending on a whim and this is who I am now
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I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread
I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year
I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now
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I just did this with some jeans a few days ago. I'm a weirdo and have a hand crank Singer 128 that does a great job on extra thick fabric. I've found that my new singer heavy duty machine can't handle fabric that is very thick.
Oh I'm broke and got a needle, thread, and a complete unwillingness to throw out my pants. Good to know about new singer machines though, I've been thinking about learning how to sew.
That's where I started. Every time I have extra money things get out of hand! I hate seeing a good pair of pants go to waste over a small hole.
Ha! Tell me about it. I got into spinning and I can hardly stop myself. I'm looking down the barrel of dying my own wool now with local trees and 3d printing myself a rigid heddle loom. Fibre arts truly desire your entire soul once you get into it.