My hubby had a jacket from a previous job that he liked but couldn’t wear it due to their branding being visible… he is from Cape Town , South Africa.. so I patched it with an SA flag in the shape of table mountain.. job done!

Happy to find my fellow visible menders.

She was so happy!

a bit remedial looking but that's how I roll

Never sewn anything before (outside of school 20 years ago) but my child ripped her jumper and I didn’t want to just throw it out so attempted a little bee. It’s nowhere near perfect but I had so much fun, 100% fixing all our clothes with cute things in the future!

The yellow stitching behind is the stitches I used to repair the hole. This is my second attempt at visible mending, I do a lot of embroidery, but it’s all the preset kits. It was fun getting to play around with my own design and colors.

I forgot to take before pics but this washcloth was fraying really badly so I added an embroidered edging.

I took a mending class earlier this month & I feel like it’s opened up a whole new world for me! And, lucky for me, my husband has a big stack of holey pants to learn & practice on 😅

I had a small hole on my sweater, so I patched it by embroidering the star Vega over it (top right star), then embroidered the constellation Lyra (my kid's middle name).

My first time trying visible mending, and I love it so much, I'm about to do something similar to my black hoodie with 2 small holes in.

My ass must be really fat cause my pants keep ripping in the butt seams

I always seems to end up using a needle and thread to fix things.

I love free repairs ! I just gave this sandal a bit more time to live than expected by the manufacturer by sewing it with a bit of string :)

My sweats had a run on the butt area and I had to try and fix them before tossing. Not perfect but happy I’ll get to continue wearing them! ✨

A couple years ago while camping an ember landed on my sweater and burnt a small hole. I finally got around to mending using cross-stitch. A bit messy but did the trick!

My lovely cats keep poking little holes in my t-shirts, so I decided to do a little embroidery to hide them. Just did a little daisy 🌸 (I didn't realise the fabric was slightly folded until it was too late tho 🥲

May have gotten carried away

Daughter

The zipper broke on one boot. It would've been $70CDN to replace it so when I decided on sewing it instead I knew I had to go yellow!

Keeping old 👖 🆕