Make do and mend

Threadbare clothes have history, so should you mend them by hand or machine? By Meg Stively.

The Imperial War Museums’ website has a really great collection of “Make Do and Mend” artwork, which was used in...

What you need to know before mending your clothing.

Threadbare clothes have history, so should you mend them by hand or machine? By Meg Stively.

The art of repairing clothes was being lost, but with half a million taking up sewing in the last year, a whole new generation is picking up the thread

A detailed step by step mending jeans by hand tutorial with photos. Use hand embroidery running stitch for mending denim.

Tuppence Ha'penny: Make Do and Mend for October

I came across a lovely set of ‘Make do and Mend’ leaflets from WW2. It’s a lovely insight into how we managed with little resources and to make do with what was already avai…

In decades past, wear and tear was a source of embarrassment. Discrete repairs were prized and practised - to produce a visible mend would have been seen as wearing a badge of impoverishment and idleness. This is world's away from the vibrant patches of 'tweed' created using coloured repair threads darned over damaged

This month's theme is all about being content with what you have, and what better way to tangibly express that than to have a make do and mend project? It doesn't get any better than that! Whether through necessity because of a lack of finances or fabric rations, women back in the day made it a habit of altering the clothing they already had to make it feel fresh and new again. To me, this is a lost art! How many times, before discovering vintage, did I throw out a garment because it got a…