num_pages: 228
description: This guide explores visible mending techniques in both hands-on projects and thoughtful insight about how mending relates to mindful well-being.Mending Matters explores sewing on two First it includes more than twenty projects that showcase visible mendingstyles that are edgy modern and bold yet draw on traditional stitching. It does all this with just four simple mending exterior patches interior patches slow stitches darning and weaving. In addition the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being.In essays that accompany each how-to chapter Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves. She also examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills self-reliance and confidence all gained from making things with our own hands.
language: English
title: Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More
publisher: ABRAMS