Testing birch polypore plaster Interesting to see how the polypore stood up to being worn in bed over night, wetted with blaeberry juice, scraped by heather twigs and generally coping with rough usage while I was out wild gathering. It’s looking a little ragged and has lost some of its width, but its still covering…
Category: Make do and Mend
Blanket recycling
Not fashionable, not attractive, but oh so WARM! Some Scottish summer days just call for that bit extra warmth and I had this lovely thick blanket, partly made into a cloak, stowed away in my fabric stash… A bit of chopping, sewed it up with my lovely old singer and slung it on! I don’t…
Boro paper!
Boro – with a difference I first saw this idea on pinterest (while hunting for images of fabric boro) in a fascinating picture of Japanese pawn shop wrapping paper made by pasting together old ledger pages. For images of the real deal please follow this link to Sri Threads. I tucked the image away in…
Make-do
It’s not just my jeans that are a little thread-bare after nearly two years of no chucking out and getting new. This morning as I selected colours I felt like wearing I noticed neck-lines and hem-lines in need of some rescue work. A job for the summer holidays I think. There is something unutterably tender…
Boro Evolution
Left leg, 9th October 2013 I was looking through my photos today, and I was struck by how much my jeans have changed. In the first picture here the front of the left leg is almost intact although you can see where I have reinforced the fragile original material with the first layers of patch…
Boro Jeans
It’s just over two years since I began mending my one pair of jeans. The first two patches were over the kneecaps: on the left knee is a piece of my godson’s traditional Norwegian naming day shirt and on the right a bit of tweed from his sisters’ coat. I am very hard on the…
Sheepskin Gloves
It’s taken a few days, but finally my new fingerless gloves are made. Many tweaks of the ‘pattern’ (I drew round my hand…) and adding in of gussets and, though they look as elegant as plaster casts, they are WARM. The wrap-around flap had to go. Just didn’t work. A wee note of caution –…
Beyond Repair
Worn to a Ravelling, I am undone….. My beloved fingerless gloves, a present from my dad, have had it. I haven’t got a fine enough yarn to mend them so it’s time to get inventive with what I do have in my fabric stash. I have a bit of a sheepskin coat that I picked…
Fibre Alchemy 