I got two sizes of these shorts, and cut the waist of the smaller size to add onto the larger size. Had some extra fabric bunched up, so I put pleats in the back. An idea I just had after spending the last couple summers frustrated with the way shorts have been fitting me! I’m doing it by hand. About halfway done.

Just followed the path and used a bit of rainbow yarn to patch the ripped bit. Unfortunately, the entire blanket was tied and then cut with super short tails, so I'm going to have to put fray check on those bits. But hey, nothing like a good deal and a good mend!

The beadwork patches on this pair of shoes had come unglued long ago and I was originally going to try to re-bead them but I recently acquired acrylic paint markers and they worked really well - quick and cute fix, plus I can paint over it if it gets worn or I want to change the style!

My favorite chair broke and I fixed it in this ungodly way 😭 it ain’t pretty but it works!

Got really fed up with my thumbg grips falling apart and didn't want to pay £5 for new ones so I uses what I had now I've got something fun and functional

Follow up to this post - ultimately I drew up some diagrams of how the knit works and reverse engineered it (like I did for other parts of the jumper), and solved the issue of working towards the edge into nothing by anchoring stitches around a toothpick. Don’t have the spoons to do a full tutorial right now but I’ll try to put one together because it was not too difficult once I’d figured it out! Thought I took pics of the mend in progress with the toothpicks in but apparently forgot to - basically, when I hit the area where the knit was completely worn away, I put a toothpick through the legs of existing stitches on one side of the gap, through both the row I was working into and the row directly beneath, spanned the gap, and then picked up the stitches on the other side again, making sure i picked up the where the row continued. Then I worked around the toothpick, and when I’d worked into all of the new loops on that row, I took out the top pick and moved it to the next row down. Will try to put together instructions at some point!

While not the most beautiful repair, it was extremely effective and the repair has been going strong for about 2 months now.

On pj pants, elastic fabric, freehand

So I just discovered you can mend your cat trees with this knot, no glue required! (Still need to tackle the left stem 😅)

He loved the last mend too but I showed him both options and he preferred the gold. Turns out it’s not his hat but his partner’s and they were really upset when their favourite hat broke and he wants to rescue it.

ive been using red for all my mends to keep track of the things i fixed at home. i accidentally tore one of the buttons and decided to reinforce the other one.

Brighton-based artist Charlotte Bailey was fascinated by the traditional Japanese mending technique called kintsugi, where a broken ceramic object is repaired with gold, silver, or platinum, to accentuate the damage and ‘honor’ its history.

I so loved this wanted to share 😉

The metal part of the zipper broke off the old zipper. I used heavy duty thread and another zipper and stitched it to the old zipper tape! I knew my machine wouldn't be able to handle all the layers so close together and I was NOT in the mood to take apart an entire bag just to put the zipper in.

Bonus is the zipper was thrifted and I got a bag of 50 for $2.

Works beautifully and the new zip is metal so should last longer, too!

3rd picture is the before.

My roommate strikes again saving the day and adding functionality

One of the buttons fell off and I lost it and didn't didn't have any extra buttons from the garment so I decided to sew on a completely different button instead as an accent. Not sure if sewing on buttons is considered mending though.

The faux leather straps (pictured to the right) were peeling badly, so I replaced them with real leather. Hand stitched. I didn’t have a dye exactly the same color but that’s okay. It will hopefully let this beloved beach tote stay with us for another decade :)

Used some heat shrink tubing and a heat gun to replace a missing aglet on the drawstring of my favorite sweatpants!