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

[espresso_addict]

I can't mend anything more complex than a missing button. I tend just to wear the thing until it's more hole than fabric. I've had some expensive garments that I liked and that fit properly professionally mended. We now have four sewing machines so perhaps I ought to learn to mend...

[celandineb]

LOL, you don't even need a sewing machine for most mending. That reminds me that I owe SO a waistcoat that I promised him for last Christmas... I do "real" sewing a little bit, although I'm not that great at it. But enough to make simple things. The trousers I wear almost every day to work are ones I sew myself.

[curtana]

Usually leave it in a pile until my mother comes to visit, when she will take on minor mending tasks like fixing seams or sewing on buttons. I am capable of these things, I'm just spoiled by her in this department, and she seems to enjoy doing it. And as other said, it depends somewhat how much I like the item in question - if it's something I don't really care for, or that doesn't fit me well, it will probably end up just getting donated, or tossed if the damage is more extensive.

[celandineb]

Hee, that sounds like an excellent plan. My mom was never much of a sewer herself, and she doesn't visit all that often... I think you're lucky there!

[jenburkholder]

Depends on how much I like it. The problem can be an excuse to donate something that I really don't like/don't wear much anymore. Otherwise, fix it!

[celandineb]

Makes sense to me!

[secretsolitaire]

See if my mom or SO's mom can mend it. /o\

[celandineb]

LOL! Why not, if you have that option!

[new_kid16]

I would like to think I'd fix an item, but honestly, I probably throw most things out. I don't really use rags, and I don't like to donate items that can't be used without repair (I have read that charities have to ditch a lot of such items). I will fix fallen hems (yay for iron-on hem tape!) and am willing to replace a button, except I usually lose the button. But that's the extent of my skills. (I do wear holey t-shirts till they fall apart, though, if I like them.)

[celandineb]

You're right; I recently read a book that said that in fact charities only keep/sell as clothing maybe 10% of what is donated to them, and anything not in good condition to start with is not going to be kept.

I've been known to turn holey t-shirts into shoe-polishing rags (although admittedly I don't polish my shoes nearly as often as I probably ought to either).