I’m grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread

I’m not very good at it, but it’s not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year

I’m finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it’s easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now

  • sashiko style stitching

    I was skimming this page on it and was left with some questions - it tells you what to do, but not why.

    How much of Sashiko is style, and how much is utility? For ex. with the stitches chart at the bottom we are advised to “leave the center open”, “avoid crossing over”, “leave a slack loop on corners”, but the purposes aren’t explained.

    I’m cool with it being for aesthetic reasons but I really like to understand what I’m doing, not much of a blind rule follower, and kind of a minimalist tbh.