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does she talk at all about how to patch/mend jeans? because that's a skill that'd be super-useful to learn, given how fast jeans wear out (between the thinness
by clairity 7y ago
does she talk at all about how to patch/mend jeans? because that's a skill that'd be super-useful to learn, given how fast jeans wear out (between the thinness and the added stretchy but less durable fibers nowadays).
- KozmoNau7 7y agoI've had great results with "boro" stitching, which doesn't try to hide the repair, but makes it a personal design element. The key is to use nice thick embroidery thread.
- clairity 7y agothanks! i like the style of boro stitching, and have 5-6 pairs of jeans i need to repair, so it seems like a good time to dig into it.
- spodek 7y agoShe doesn't cover that in particular, but: 1. Here are videos on how to mend jeans: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patch+jeans&oq=&gs_l= https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patch+jeans&oq=... 2. The bigger picture is that when you force yourself to live by a value, you learn all these things. When I first challenged myself to avoid buying packaged food for a week, I had no idea I'd go from emptying my garbage weekly to less than once per year. Looking back, it seems inevitable, but when I started 5 years ago, I barely knew about farmers markets, CSAs, fermenting vegetables, etc.
- clairity 7y agothanks, i may need to stop opining and start actually mending one of these days!
- thesmok 7y agoI take my jeans to the nearest clothes repair booth, they stitch on a patch from inside. Here doing one patch costs $4, that's much better that >$100 for a new pair of Levi's.
- clairity 7y agoi tried getting a pair patched once and the patch tore open after a few weeks =( that's why i thought i might try to learn a better technique myself, but maybe i should look for a different repair shop.