Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite

Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your FavoriteJoin the Slow Fashion movement and make mending your jeans and other garments an artful, joyful, and empowering act of sustainability and renewal, for both you and your favorite clothes with award winning crafter KatrinaRodabaughs Mending Matters. This book is a joy. . . . Thank you, Katrina, for helping rekindle our love affair with clothes built to last and hold memories. Clare Press, sustainability editor at large, Vogue Australia Mending Matters

Join the Slow Fashion movement and make mending your jeans and other garments an artful, joyful, and empowering act of sustainability and renewal, for both you and your favorite clothes with award-winning crafter KatrinaRodabaugh’s Mending Matters. “This book is a joy. . . . Thank you, Katrina, for helping rekindle our love affair with clothes built to last and hold memories.” —Clare Press, sustainability editor at large, Vogue Australia Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: •Exterior patches •Interior patches •Slow stitches •Darning and weaving In addition, this full-color book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being.