Category Archives: Sewing

Decorative mending 3

I really like ‘saving’ clothes. By that I mean mending, up-dating, enhancing or rescuing garments. I’ve told you about projects like this before. Decorative mending 1 is here. Decorative mending 2 is here. This is a story of bleach splashed on comfortable, well-fitting BLACK trousers. As you might expect, the splashes of bleach left longContinueContinue reading “Decorative mending 3”

Sewing loose covers – and the kindness of strangers

My daughter and son-in-law have moved to the South-East of England and last weekend I went down by train to visit. I had made a promise to make a new slip-cover for their wing chair while I was there. My daughter had gone to some trouble to find suitable furnishing fabric, and in end hadContinueContinue reading “Sewing loose covers – and the kindness of strangers”