How to Keep Your Clothes Forever / Leah Giblin Melbourne, Australia: Smith Street Books, c2025 223 p. This was an interesting read! Aimed ...

  Well Worn / Skye Pennant NY: Chronicle, c2024. 144 p.  This is another book in the now common Visible Mending area. This one is by a UK au...

Do you ever have small mending projects to do that you avoid for months and then realize you can do them in about ten minutes? I did two of ...

As some long-term readers might know, one of my favourite knit patterns is Kwik Sew 3559 , an older OOP pattern that I've made 10+ times...

I have a strange resistance to fixing something after it's done & in the closet. While I am making it, no problem to rip a seam ...

  Creative Mending / Hikaru Noguchi Rutland, VT: Tuttle, c2022. 104 p. One more Japanese mending book for this month's featured theme! I...

Mending with Love / Noriko Misumi trans. from the Japanese by Nancy Marsden North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle, c2021. 88 p. I read Misumi's fi...

  Mending with Kids / Nami Levy trans. from the Japanese by Nancy Marsden North Clarendon, VT/ Tokyo: Tuttle, c2023. 88 p. I found this cute...

During MeMadeMay this year , one of my goals was to work on the pile of mending in my sewing room and decide whether to fix and wear or give...

Happy Vyshyvanka Day!  Mine worn with my re-hemmed red skirt I've had a number of skirts sitting in my mending pile for a while now. Thi...

Make, Sew and Mend / Bernadette Banner   Salem, MA: Page Street Publishing, c2022 200 p. This is a new book by the popular historical sewist...

  Mending Life: a Handbook for repairing clothes and hearts / Nina and Sonya Montenegro  Seattle: Sasquatch Books, c2020 194 p. This week...

  Wear, Repair, Repurpose / Lily Fulop NY: Countryman Press, c2020 160 p. This cute little book about mending was published last year, along...

  Loved Clothes Last / Orsola de Castro Dublin: Penguin Life, c2021 263 p. I was really interested in checking out this book when I first he...

In my recent post on the McCalls 4591 blouse, I mentioned a few issues I had with it. The primary problem was that the front bow was too he...