Here’s a photo of the patch on the sheet I mended (click to embiggen):
The patch is made from fabric reclaimed from a pair of trousers that finally fell apart too much to be mended again. When the trousers reached the end of their life, I cut out and discarded the parts that were badly worn (mainly between the legs and around the waistband and hems), and saved the other parts. This sheet is nice and soft from age, so I wanted to use similarly-soft fabric for the patch, which is why I chose this rather than using a scrap from something new.
I also mentioned making a sleep mask from my leftover silk. The silk was bought to make a pillowcase, which involved two rectangles of almost exactly the same size (a 2cm difference due to the zip-covering flap) so the remainder was a long, narrow L-shape. I cut and pieced it to make a rectangle, then folded that in half and sewed around the edges to make a double-thickness rectangle. I don’t like elastic on my sleep masks, so that was all that needed doing (I roll up the rectangle and arrange it over my eyes, and it generally stays put enough). The nice thing about this was that it meant the wastage on this project was extremely minimal (a 2cm strip of fabric that is now in my scraps box).
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The patch is made from fabric reclaimed from a pair of trousers that finally fell apart too much to be mended again. When the trousers reached the end of their life, I cut out and discarded the parts that were badly worn (mainly between the legs and around the waistband and hems), and saved the other parts. This sheet is nice and soft from age, so I wanted to use similarly-soft fabric for the patch, which is why I chose this rather than using a scrap from something new.
I also mentioned making a sleep mask from my leftover silk. The silk was bought to make a pillowcase, which involved two rectangles of almost exactly the same size (a 2cm difference due to the zip-covering flap) so the remainder was a long, narrow L-shape. I cut and pieced it to make a rectangle, then folded that in half and sewed around the edges to make a double-thickness rectangle. I don’t like elastic on my sleep masks, so that was all that needed doing (I roll up the rectangle and arrange it over my eyes, and it generally stays put enough). The nice thing about this was that it meant the wastage on this project was extremely minimal (a 2cm strip of fabric that is now in my scraps box).