Re: The Second Measure: Sewing, Yarnwork, and other Needlework
Posted: Jul 24, 2014 8:59 pm
Yeah, that's my usual type of mending, too. Mind you, I have a really nice stitch on my machine for those ghastly tears. There's not much worse in my books than patching a hole, and having it wear through just a little bit higher up within a few days.
The finest mending job I ever had to do involved the lace on a wedding dress. The bride must have stepped on the edge, and it began to unravel. When I got to it there were a bunch of loose threads that had pulled out. Each thread had to be woven back in and used to tie off the hole, and of course, the threads were quite short. Painstaking work, but I was able to repair it well enough that even I had trouble finding the spot; there was no fresh material introduced.
The finest mending job I ever had to do involved the lace on a wedding dress. The bride must have stepped on the edge, and it began to unravel. When I got to it there were a bunch of loose threads that had pulled out. Each thread had to be woven back in and used to tie off the hole, and of course, the threads were quite short. Painstaking work, but I was able to repair it well enough that even I had trouble finding the spot; there was no fresh material introduced.