Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Garments and Hearts

Study the artwork and craft of mending—a joyful and meditative apply and a strong act of restoration for the garments and belongings we love. 

This fantastically illustrated handbook will present you find out how to mend denims, socks, sweaters, down jackets, and leggings and different frequent repairs. Mending Life encourages us to cherish our issues by repairing them relatively than discarding them. Full of heartfelt tales that commemorate a sustainable, intentional life-style, it additionally encourages us to alter our consumption habits in order that with small mends right here and there, we lengthen the lifetime of our clothes and different home goods. Encouraging readers interested by gradual style and craftcore, this handbook is for novices but in addition affords extra superior strategies to these with some expertise in mending.

You may study primary strategies corresponding to patching, however can have choices to take it a step additional with ornamental sashiko stitching; you may additionally discover ways to darn socks and mend sweaters, in addition to issues like a tear in a bedsheet or down jacket. Alongside the best way, Nina and Sonya Montenegro—creators of TheFarWoods— share how the highly effective act of mending strengthens not solely the item we’re repairing, however ourselves as nicely. Vibrant, full-color illustrations are woven all through the this timeless and sensible information to cherishing and caring for our belongings.