Fall
It’s cool enough to reach for a sweater, and around here, that means this ancient, lovely thing. It also means patching up the latest round of holes (seriously, the fabric is thinner than a tshirt, it gets tiny holes if you so much as look at it).
Luckily, that’s something I rather enjoy.
If you peruse the embroidery tag on here, you’ll see many of the previous mends. (This is the bit where I preemptively mention that I can’t show you the whole thing at once because the mends are all over and there is no way to take a photo that encompasses all of them, plus the sweater is big and the mends are small, so if I try and take a picture of the whole think it looks like junk…you’ll just have to live with the mystery.)
This is so pretty! How about a shot of the front and/or back of the sweater laid out on a table or bed just so we, the curious, can see the overall effect? Pleeeeze?!
Nope! It’s my secret!
LOL!! Everyone needs a few.
So seeing this has reminded me that I REALLY need to do some pretty repairs on my merino/possum poncho. I did a quick google search and you are the 2nd mention in the article on The Spruce, love it!
Huh…that’s totally cool, thank you for telling me! I mean…I wish they’d asked first. And maybe spelled my name right. (And I suspect I’ll be sending them an email asking them to fix that.) But it is nifty.
And yes, go for it, stitch it up, you can totally do it!
What a wonderful way to preserve a much loved sweater!
What kind of thread did you use for these mends?
It’s just embroidery floss.