Mending time! I've been trying to do some organizing in my life, and was reminded that I have this stack of mending that needs doing. I think I got nervous about one particular mending job (on a stretchy part of a hoodie), and let the other things pile up on top of it. There were also some more substantial reworking of clothes I wanted to do that I figured I needed a tailor for. But! While Margie was here last year, we tried out a local tailor and she was great! And I needed to take my portable sewing machine down to my parents house on Tuesday to fix my dad's pants, and thought I might as well get started on some of my own things as well. So far I have fixed a seam on one of my favorite reusable grocery bags, the waistline of one of my favorite skirts (where the seam had come apart in two places), the strap of a mask (technically disposable, but it was barely used), taken out the darts in a dress that will (hopefully) become a skirt, and fixed the zipper part of some fun pants I bought on our trip. For the last one: Basically, someone had put in a zipper on top of the existing fabric, so unzipping the zipper only gave you about 2 extra inches in the width to take the pants off and on. I needed a lot more than that! In fact, I'm pretty confident I never got to actually try these pants on before, because of that silly feature. So finally I got up the nerve to cut right down between the zipper and then just sew around the new edges so they don't fray. And it worked perfectly! I can now get into the pants (see?), and they are super comfy and beautiful.
I also had a couple of webinars this week where I got to sew hexagons, and finished one more half-flower. Three seams to go until these halves are done!
Full flowers: 4/64 done
Half flowers: 6/8 done
- Catherine
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