Where better to teach a Mend your Knitting class, than an excellent new local yarn shop? A Wing and A Bear is tucked away behind the Market Place in Durham, on Fowlers Yard and is well worth a visit, if you're interested in knitting, crochet, spinning or natural dyeing. I was delighted when the owners … Continue reading Mending at A Wing and A Bear
Category: Sustainable Fashion
Mending jeans
This is everything (nearly) I know about mending holes in jeans, based on a lot of experimentation over quite a few years. In particular, it's how to do a crotch mend, where your thighs rub together, because it's an awkward place to mend, and pretty much no-one wants a visible mend right there! You want … Continue reading Mending jeans
Ragbag Mending 