I did some more sashiko mending on my jacket, reinforcing a very worn cuff with material from a charity shop cotton shirt. I put a patch of lumatwill (tweed with retro-reflective thread woven in -- I buy swatches from Dashing Tweeds and use them as patches) on a big of the back that had worn through, basically also sashiko but with the patch on the outside to show the reflective bits. I also added some retro-reflective thread along the collar seam on one side (ran out of thread, and time on that day, before doing the second side, but I do intend to do it at some stage). Soon it will be time to wash the jacket and put it away for the summer; I'd like to have all the worn bits reinforced by then, so that when I take it out again in the autumn it doesn't feel shabby.
I repaired a hole in the armpit of a linen jersey t-shirt. This fabric is too loosely knit for the darning loom to make sense so it also got sashiko.
I have some skirts and trousers to which I want to add elastic to the waistbands -- my size has been changing in the last few years and the skirts in particular are difficult to wear as they don't have belt loops.
I have a new dress with pockets, but the pockets are too small so I want to enlarge them. I would also like to add a couple of patch pockets to skirts I have that didn't come with pockets but which I couldn't quite bring myself to give away when I decluttered all pocketless trousers and dresses a few years ago.
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Date: 2024-03-22 07:25 am (UTC)I repaired a hole in the armpit of a linen jersey t-shirt. This fabric is too loosely knit for the darning loom to make sense so it also got sashiko.
I have some skirts and trousers to which I want to add elastic to the waistbands -- my size has been changing in the last few years and the skirts in particular are difficult to wear as they don't have belt loops.
I have a new dress with pockets, but the pockets are too small so I want to enlarge them. I would also like to add a couple of patch pockets to skirts I have that didn't come with pockets but which I couldn't quite bring myself to give away when I decluttered all pocketless trousers and dresses a few years ago.