There are numerous ways to protect the environment, and it’s up to us to choose the most suitable methods to contribute and help our planet. This is especially crucial now, given the many factors contributing to climate change and the degradation of our beloved Mother Earth.
Today, we’d like to share some of the most inspiring posts from the r/Visiblemending community. Members of this group share brilliant methods for repairing clothing and other items, giving them a second life. Some individuals seek advice from more experienced crafty members by posting photos of their damaged items to initiate discussions and discover the best ways to repair them.
Bored Panda decided to reach out to Ekaterina Haak, who shares “The magic of visible mending” on her Instagram profile. Scroll down to find out what we learned about the craft of mending from the expert in this field.
#1 Problem Solved Thanks To Some Little Soot Sprite Friends!
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#2 You Guys Inspired Me!
Before and after of one of my favorite dresses that had a small stain that bothered me so much that i stopped wearing it. I rose this simple dress from the ashes to make a statement piece I love even more.
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#3 It Was Either This Or Thousands Of Dollars To Replace The Whole Floor, They Don’t Make Tile Like That Anymore
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#4 Thank You To Whichever User Suggested This Cat Scratch Patching. Love It So Much!
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#5 My 10 Year Old Mended My Jeans For Me
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#6 Patched And Covered A Rip Next To My Jeans’ Pocket! It’s My First Big Attempt At Decorative Embroidery
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#7 He Didn’t Want To Throw This Rug Away Because It Belonged To His Grandmother
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#8 Snoopy Shirt Had A Hole, So I Added A Little Woodstock
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#9 Mom Patched A Quilt. Pup Has Been Gone A Couple Years Now, But This Lives On
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#10 Owl Lost An Eye. My 7yo Asked Me To Make An Eyepatch. Owl Is Now Ready For A New Career As A Pirate
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#11 I Fixed My Lamp Using The Stained Glass Soldering Technique, I Was Told You Guys Might Like It
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#12 Patched A Small Tear In My Jacket With A Small Felt Bandaid
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#13 My First Time Embroidering! I Hid A Bleach Stain Under A Crocodile
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#14 This Patch Might Bite You In The…rear Pocket Of The Vintage Jeans I Patched. Scrap Of Stretchy Fabric And Sashiko Thread
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#15 Embroidered On Flowers To Cover Some Paint Splatters
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#16 My Favorite Overalls Might Eventually Be More Crochet Cotton Than Denim
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#17 Embroidered A Little Throwback Dino To Cover A BBQ Sauce Stain
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#18 Covered Up A Bleach Stain With A French Knot Sheep!
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#19 When We’re Not Sure A Blanket Stitch Will Be Enough, We Embroider. Overachievers Unite For Mending Glory!
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#20 Covered A Small Stain On My Bra
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#21 My First Decorative Mend! My Partner’s Moth Eaten Cashmere Sweater Needed Some Love
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#22 My Mom Had A Hole In Her Jeans. Now She Has A Poppy Sticking Out Of Her Pocket
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#23 The Cats Clawed Up The Side Of The Chair, I Think You Guys Will Like How My Mom Fixed It Up
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#24 Finished!!
These took such a while, but I’m so happy with the end result. I reinforced several thin spots and puckering areas with patches underneath then added lots of embellishments. I like to think of this as my ode to Monet’s water lillies.
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#25 Mended A Couple Of Split Laundry Baskets
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#26 Mending Hole In Jeans With Rainbow Weave + Patching From Behind
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#27 A Sharpie Leaked In My Scrubs Pocket And Didn’t Come Out After Several Washes. I Do Work At An Animal Shelter, So I Embroidered A Cat Over The Stain
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#28 Can’t Mend His Bones So I’m Mending His Shirt
My son was in an accident where someone ran a red light and hit him on his motorcycle. three surgeries and a month later I got his personal effects including his Joyce manor shirt. I washed it up and stitched up where the EMTs cut through his clothing.
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#29 Upcycled/Patched/Jeans & Ankara
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#30 Headphone Pad Fell Off – Chrocheted It Back On!
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#31 Heavily Darned 1000 Year Old Tunic From Egypt
The blue and possibly the brocade are “original”, and everything else is mending. Some darns match, some don’t, and the brown in the middle is quite decorative, but it’s darning too. The museum notes indicate that something about the construction suggests this may have originally been an adult garment, which was then cut down for a child. And then mended, and mended again, most likely passed down to someone else and someone else and someone after that. This is YEARS of wear & loving mending, and on a small garment that means no one could have worn it their whole life, so we’re seeing the history of multiple people who cared about this garment, and cared for it, and kept using it. Fantastic.
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#32 My Favorite Hoodie Had A Huge Tear In It So I Made My First Attempt At Visible Mending
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#33 Squishmallow First Aid
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#34 My First Attempt. I Had A Rip Going Up The Entire Side Of The Pocket. I Tried Some Darning And Then Some Simple Embroidery. The Pocket Is Still Usable
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#35 My Sock Had A Hole In It. My Six Year Old Removed It From My Foot And Mended It. I Think I’ll Keep It This Way
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#36 Some Mended Stairs I Came Across
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#37 Color Changing Thread Is My Favorite For Mending
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#38 Mended A Small Hole In A T-Shirt With Cross Stitch
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#39 This Is How I Repair My Dress
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#40 Victim Of A Dog Attack Gets Reconstructive Surgery
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#41 Patched Chair
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#42 Someone Chewed A Hole In The Beautiful Quilt My Friend Made. Friend Sent Scraps, Thread And A Letter For The Offender
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#43 Everywhere There Is Now A Pigeon There Once A Moth-Hole
The pigeons are needle-felted. For the holes that were larger than one or two knitted loops I used extra strong thread to sew them shut before starting the felting process.
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#44 A Planter In Ravello, Italy
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#45 Fixed The Cuffs Of A Hoodie With Hand Sewing And Crochet
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#46 “Repaired” My Granddaughter’s Stick Unicorn
Last time she was here she kept nagging me to fix this little 2 cm. seam opening. So instead of taking the 3 seconds to just sew it back together, I backed it with blood red flannel, added some big black “stitches” over it, then a Velcro band-aid with optional removal felt pool of blood. She’ll love it.
The poor unicorn has a hard life & is used mostly as a weapon to bop her big sister, FYI.
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#47 Had Some Rips On These Chinos, As Well As Some Stains – Covered Them Up With Leaves
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#48 I Salvaged Some Over-Distressed Jeans By Sewing Some Doilies In. Someone Suggested I Share Them Here
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#49 I Got Hair Dye On My Collar. Oh Well, Mending Time!
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#50 Doggo Got A Hold Of My Favorite Dress So I Tried Visible Mending For The First Time
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