mend my clothes

the basket of To Do items is empty, so I’m done a couple of months

just need to fix up a pair of pants, then I can mark this off until more stuff collects.

Finally getting around to hand sewing some things. most of the jeans I patched with the iron ons are holding up. 1 more needs a slightly bigger patch. After this, my peacoat needs work before cold weather returns.

I have done the iron on patches for the jeans that needed it, we’ll see how that works, and I still need to hem up 1 pair of pants, need to break out the machine for that. but then, alas, more items that need hand sewn have already let themselves be known. but I really have made massive progress on this.

I’ve hand stitched everything I can, except one sock with holes in it (yes, I sew up socks. I prefer they are reduced to smithereens before they become rags) I have one pair of pants that need hemmed up with the machine, and about 6 pairs of jeans that need some iron on patches inside to help hold them together a little longer, until they are ready to become skirts/shorts

that’s how long it’s been since I last completed this goal, and now it is back in a big way. Lots of stuff in the pile that needs just a bit of this or that. I’m ready. Bring it On!

the only things I have left to sew are a curtain for the garage, and some napkins, and those aren’t clothes. I can’t believe I got through that huge pile of stuff that needed fixed. yay!

I have been hemming the heck out of some pants I’ve been content to walk on for the past several years. there are still many pairs to go, but I will get this done. And won’t that be nice?

I also have cut cloth to make several napkins (no more paper towels for me) and have even hemmed 1 all up. So nice to have realized I can to a wide stitch with my machine.

so, I ironed about half the stuff, de fuzzed everything that needed it, and did a fair amount of hand stitching, but more remains to be done.

and even went through my clothes and pulled everything that needs some work. There is now a huge pile of clothes in the living room that need hemmed, ironed, de-fuzz-balled and other small fixes. I will kill it this weekend.