There is a popular little phrase that skips around the quilting world that ~ Quilters Don’t Mend~ 
Well I do. In fact I even darn and find giving things another life perhaps one even more artful than the one it lead before to be very satisfying indeed.
I currently have an oatmeal colored sweater with a hole that has been waiting for me to figure out how to make it new and I think I just found it.
Check out the beautiful darning done by Hannah Lamb.
Do you mend or perhaps you don’t give a darn? Let me know in the comments below.
Mend, alter, create, reuse,refurbish. Hard to find time to actually quilt! It seems like a dying art. I am old enough to remember before “planned obsilescence” , when things were built to last or able to be repaired instead of thrown away. Oh my god! I sound like an old person! Shoot me now.
I mend, alter, darn, adorn and do anything else needed to keep a loved item going, or to turn an unloved item into a lovable one. I love creating something from “useless” bits: scrappy quilting anyone? I consider them all art forms!
Keith was so impressed when I was able to serge the worn cuffs back onto a favorite threadbare tee shirt! It’s the small things!
I do not understand this word, “mend”.
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I hem and mend and darn. I have a frugal side that helps me save money for quilting so if I can repair instead of replace I surely will. And recently I was able to mend my grandfathers 2 favorite pairs of coveralls – he was so happy to not have to replace them. There is no better feeling than being able to put my stitching skills to use to help family.
A little – generally not in my own household, though. Around home, it might be a seam that has ruptured or hem that has fallen. But I used to date a guy who was an auto tech by day and an all-around handyman. That man was hard on pants! I mended many a pair for him – rips and holes, busted belt loops, torn pockets…
I mend endlessly! I have been sewing up holes in jeans for almost 30 years. No longer because I mended mine before I got married. I don’t darn socks but everything else seems to be fair game. I mainly repurpose used formals into a more modest dress for teen girls.