Visible Mending

A dress

One of my all time favorite silk dresses with an excellent drape shredded. previously I’d attempted several different mending strategies. I’d used a sewing machine, and I’d hand embroidered a patch, and neither of those did the job. This time, I remixed this fractal template and figured out what stitch length, fractal repeat, and color would best cover up the shredded tear.

Some Pants

You know that certain parts of pants always wear out before other parts, and it’s the worst when you have to retire a pair when 99% of the material is still in great shape. For these pants, the fractal I used was the dragon fractal. It was fun and fancy, and when I applied some fabric to the back, fixed that tiny awkward hole right up.

Turtlestitch

To do this visible mending, I’ve used the platform turtlestitch.org and a brother embroidery/sewing machine. Turtlestitch is a block based platform that allows you to create your own embroidery designs. When you export as a DST the brother embroidery machines to embroider that pattern. Feel free to peek into my undocumented projects here.