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Mending Show and Tell…

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Ruth Ohol wrote to say…

I watched your piece where you fixed a quilt for Lorna, I think, that had a good sized dog chew. I have some tops I bought at Jinny’s Hilton Head seminar about 20 years ago that I live in all winter, cannot bear to toss that have badly worn cuffs, like thread bear with holes

Yesterday I decided to save one. So I cut the sleeve off over the hole above the cuff. Then I added a small piece of interfacing to strengthen and serged the edge so it wouldn’t ravel, did a single turn hem and machine stitched it. I bought a sturdy cotton yarn, and did a button hole stitch and then a single crochet so it was nice and sturdy. I picked up stitches onto double pointed needles and knit a new cuff onto it. Cotton yarn is not particularly nice to work with but I knew it would hold up well. 

Thanks for the inspiration. It doesn’t look like new but its not a rag anymore either. And Once i saw this would work, I actually enjoyed doing it. 
Ruth Ohol

Isn’t that a great mend?! I am impressed and am going to remember this idea. If you don’t knit, a crochet cuff would work—although a ribbed knit is pretty perfect.

If you missed my videos on Visible Mending, you can start with the video below. Or you can click here to find the playlist with all of my visible mending videos.

When the dog eats the quilt, visible mending for the win!

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April, grandson Jack’s dog, ate a hole in his bed quilt. Deep sigh. This is the dog-eaten hole. Notice the irregular stitches that I used to sew together the tears on either side of the hole.

Follow the progression of the fix in the following photos. It took about 2 hours plus a few miuntes to machine quilt over the patches.

Patch basted then appliqued on the top of the quilt.
I cut batting to fit the hole and basted it in place.
I basted a patch on the back and then trimmed it to follow the shape of the hole, plus some.
Back patch appliqued in place.
I decided to add some blue to make the white patch blend better.
Not too bad!
I machine quilted through all layers and this will keep the batting from shifting inside the quilt.

I meant for the patch to blend but not be invisible and that worked. When Jack and I put the quilt on his bed, we almost couldn’t find the patch—but then we found it :-). Jack was as impressed as a nearly 15-year-old boy can be 🤣🤣🤣.

The moral of the story is not to put off this sort of mending. It goes fast and it’s very satisfying.

Wowie Zowie, from Piecing the POC Way, 2nd ed.— before April ate it.