Day 139 of 2026

We had thunderstorms today so I took the opportunity 

to listen to a book 

and work on my mending project.

 

Day 128 of 2026

A new round of mending requests has come in.

 

Day 152 of 2025

I found this needlepoint piece in a container today

 during more garage clean out. 

I believe it was made by Mom. 

I was never sure how to handle it

 because it was a nice neat parallelogram. 

It occurred to me today that I could try to wet block it. 

So that's what I have done. 

I washed it completely in water with a bar of wool soap. 

I stretched in the needed direction

 and pinned it to a foam blocking square. 

There are a few moth holes here and there

 which I will attempt to mend once it's dry. 

 

Day 330 of 2024

This promo lunch bag isn't very well made

 and the slider slid right off the end this morning. 

Having learned how to put a slider on the zipper tape with teeth 

in the making of my many Hemingway pouches lately, 

I thought I'd give it a go. 

After a few tries, I was able to get it back on. 

With that done, I stitched a lot of sloppy hand stitches across the end

 through the zipper tape and the end piece 

which was supposed to keep it on in the first place. 

That zipper slider isn't going anywhere now.

 

Day 358 of 2023

One more sleep 'til Christmas. 

I made this for my in-laws before they were my in-laws, 

so probably in the 50 years ago range. 

The beard and hat bobble were made out of a fuzzy yarn 

which had lost most of its fuzziness up in the attic. 

I find crochet stitches baffling to mend, 

so I used a weaving technique instead adding a new fuzzy yarn.

 

Day 199 of 2023

This hat had a large hole in the front

 so I decided to try my hand at some visible mending. 

I forgot to take a before picture

 but there are plenty more spots that need mending

 so I will try to remember to take both the before and after pictures

 when I fix them. 

I think it needs a variety of colors 

so I'll be getting more of this particular yarn.