Visible mending jeans

Visible mending of some very tattered jeans, using embroidery floss.

Sashiko Visible Mending makes your denim strong and beautiful! Workshop on March 4, 2023 at Madison Wool in Madison CT 203-245-5921 🌀

An easy practice of Japanese inspired mending.

I did some visible mending on a very old pair of RTW jeans and here are the details with lots of photos.

Sashiko mending is a form of functional embroidery that originated from Japan. It was initially done to repair tears or rips in clothes and has now become an art form. Here’s how you can mend your ripped jeans using Sashiko.

Collingwood-Norris Mending on Instagram: "Jeans wearing out at the crotch is an issue many of us have. While denim repairs are definitely not my speciality, I do repair my own jeans. I’ve tried three different ways to repair them and can now read about them on my blog-link in my bio. . I’ve just been adding to these jeans, and now the backside is even more colourful! As they need so much work, I’m not really trying to make it particularly neat anymore- I’m trying to find ways to make it…

When I was in St. Louis a few weeks back, my husband and I had brunch with a friend at the most delightful restaurant called Tree House. It's a vegetarian restaurant and the food is amazing. If you are ever in St. Louis, by all means, make your way over for a meal. You won't be disappointed. Our waitress that morning was so delightful, and as it turns out, quite creative. She loves taking old pieces and giving them new life. She was wearing a vintage silk top that had a hole in it when she…

Don't toss those favorite denim shorts because of a tear! Jump on the visible mending trend . This eco-friendly solution not only saves your denim but also keeps them away from landfill. Let's mend and restore their beauty together. It's time to embrace the charm of imperfection. Let's mend and save from landfill!

Using a scrap of quilting cotton and pearl cotton thread, I reinforced and mended a thinning and fraying area of my secondhand jeans.

I bought a jean jacket for a denim painting workshop I took, but the jacket was extremely weathered and torn--to the extent that my hanger kept poking through t…