With over 20 easy projects: Bring new life to old clothes with darning, appliqué, sashiko-style stitching, and more by Shelley Zetuni
Bring new life to old clothes or thrift-store finds and create your SUSTAINABLE WARDROBE.
Perfect for beginners: learn techniques such as darning, embroidery, and appliqué.
Repairing your old clothes can add personality to your wardrobe, is good for the environment, and saves money. This brilliant handbook introduces various mending techniques and includes 20 projects.
First, there is a guide to all the tools you’ll need, from hand-sewing needles to darning discs and mushrooms. Then explore different methods of mending, with detailed step-by-step guides, followed by easy projects to put your skills into practice. Learn how to create vibrant patterns with darning, strengthen and embellish with sashiko-style stitching, cover stains with needle-felting and handmade patches, and much more. Throughout, you’ll find advice on choosing colors, threads, and materials, and how to incorporate a visible mend into the existing style of a garment or use it to give the item a complete refresh.
The 20 beautiful projects include adding needle-felted embellishments to a scarf, repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching a hole in fine silk fabric, and adding colorful darning to a sweater.
About Shelley Zetuni
After training as a couture milliner, Shelley Zetuni set up her own hat-making studio in North London, where she included royalty among her client list. During the pandemic, she found comfort in crafting and drew on her lifetime of textile know-how to launch Sewingsmith. She runs beginners’ visible mending classes and retreats. Find out more on Instagram: @_sewingsmith_ and at sewingsmith.co.uk
