Mending poll

[celandineb]

Per my post earlier this morning, in which I mentioned that I had mended a blouse, I wondered whether that would be what other folks did in the circumstances.

Poll Mending

Comments

[ancarett]

I will mend something if it's a good piece and worth my while. Dress pants, for instance: I have a pair that needs a new hook-and-eye sewn on. But a t-shirt that's frayed at the seam I will likely use for rags (since there are a lot of call for rags in my life with pets and kids).

I don't darn socks, though. My grandmother would be disappointed in me but, then, today's socks aren't sturdy knits such as I remember learning to repair.

[aunty_marion]

Shop-bought socks and pop-socks may get cobbled together once. After that, they get thrown out. However, since I knit a lot of my own socks, *those* get darned.

[celandineb]

I should think the hand-knitted socks were much more worth darning!

[jelazakazone]

Pretty much ditto for me. Frayed items go to dh for workshop rags, clothes that rip at seams get mended. Socks go straight in the garbage.

[mrowe]

If it´s a few years old, I´ll mend it. If it´s starting to fray or wear out, it´ll be moved to the ´wear around the house´ pile afterwards. If it´s already been moved there, I may ditch it or cut it up for patchwork fabric, unless it´s a favourite item (then I'll wear it until it's totally hopeless).

[celandineb]

*nods* If I sewed patchwork that would be a cool thing to do with worn-out stuff. I do wear the more frayed or stained things for cleaning and gardening and so forth.

[magnetic_pole]

Items in need of mending tend to sit in my closet for years, awaiting the day I actually sit down to the task. In the meantime, I...wear them. Please don't look for holes if you ever meet me in person! M

[celandineb]

LOL, I wouldn't - I barely notice what people are wearing, usually, unless it's really striking in some way.

[timwarp]

HAHA! I do that, too!

[celandineb]

Mending isn't usually my top priority either, I have to admit. *g*

[arwen_lune]

Depends how much I like it. If it's a favourite thing to wear, mend it until it falls apart. If it's just meh, probably donate it or use it for rags.

[celandineb]

I have this bad habit of stopping wearing favorite things when they're not quite to the threadbare stage; it's like I don't want to wear them to the point where I'll have to let them go.

[stasia]

My favorite pair of jeans is rapidly becoming more mend than jean. I've patched the inside seam (one patch on the inside of the jeans, the other on the outside, because I like seeing bright colored patches), the holes in the knee are now covered by a butterfly patch (which I've embroidered over), and I added a second butterfly on the pocket on the opposite side, for balance (and for fun).

I think they'll need more embroidery soon, and maybe patches in a couple of other places. In the next month, maybe.

I've gone further than mending, though. I'll re-sew shirts which don't fit well (my cross-shoulder is much smaller than commercial shirts accommodate, especially ones which fit my bust), and I've done artistic work on shirts which are stained but still fit well.

I grew up wearing second hand clothes, does it show?

Stasia

[aunty_marion]

Have you seen my pictures of my younger sister's patchwork jeans? She made them when she was a student, and has lost enough weight to get back into them now... They started out as mending-patchwork, then she just covered the whole thing!

[stasia]

Oh, those are fabulous! I'm jealous!

Stasia

[celandineb]

Oh wow, those sound really cool! *g*