Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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A place to share ideas, knowledge and creations with textiles. The focus is on reducing waste, whether that be sewing from the scraps left from other projects, using the end of rolls and remnants, or repairing and remaking finished pieces.

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[Request] How Should I Repair this Coat? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have this nice heavy winter coat that I accidentally tore a small hole in the shell near a chest pocket. It's a tiny rip, but I don't want it to get any larger. Any advice for how I should go about repairing it? I want to try a visible mend instead of a simple patch. The tag says the shell is listed as 61% cotton 39% nylon.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

There’s a lot of really good channels on YouTube by people who are a lot more knowledgeable than me! The one I watch the most is more embroidery focused, but Sarah Homfray has YEARS of videos on stitching techniques that are pretty well categorized in playlists.