Mend my Clothes With Me (it's easier than you think!)
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hi friends! today I am tackling my mending pile, which is now around 2 years in the making, and I wanted to share the process with all of you. People tend to find sewing so intimidating (me included sometimes!) but learning the skill of fixing, mending, and making do is so important especially in this culture of fast fashion, throwing everything away, and just buying new.
What's your favorite way to mend your garments? I'd love to know in the comments!
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I own an etsy shop where I make vintage style baby doll clothes as well as find vintage/antique dolls, doll clothes, and baby clothes then repair/restore them to sell in my shop. One thing I do I thought might be helpful; with any of your dresses that are dry rotting, try using a light weight fusible interfacing on the inside to reinforce your repair. It will help stabilize the fabric.
I LOVE how the kids are part of your filming and background. You’re a Mum and you’re still achieved a you tube channel! What a woman! I love hearing the kids in the background.
I remember mending and almost “reconstructing” a beautiful vintage silk blouse for a week only to hear a massive rip on my back once I put it on. The whole joke had shredded diagonally and could not be saved. Dry rot drama 😢 believe it or not, I interfaced it and it is still in my closet, but I haven’t actually dared to wear it since. 😊
Kristina, I love your channel and have been stuck in bed binge-watching some of your older stuff. Don't the trolls get to you. Can you imagine having nothing better to do than go around correcting/criticising everyone on UA-cam? Your videos are delightful and your home is just fine.. I am very inspired by your videos, especially the ones with ideas about accessories like scarves and brooches. I am quite vintage myself (age 73) and you are really spot-on with almost everything. Keep up the good work!
Couldn’t agree more.
Dry rot is such a disappointment!! I love mending. My mom , who was raised during the Great Depression, taught me some of her mending skills. When I put a patch on the inside of the garment, I will sometimes turn under the raw edges of the hole on the right side of the garment and stitch with a straight stitch around the hole. This is a little less obvious than a zig zag stitch. I darn socks and I also turn the collars on my husband's flannel shirts. You might be able to rescue some of the fabric from the less worn areas of the dry rotted dresses and incorporate it into a new dress. Happy sewing!!
What is dry rot? Please explain this if possible because googling isn’t turning up good explanations.
@@silversilk8438 Dry rot usually happens when something (especially clothing/fabric items) is stored in a hot dry environment. Often when clothing has been stored in a hot attic the fabric and sewn seams just rot away. If you pull on the fabric with your hands it comes apart.The thread that it's sewn with will even disintegrate . The seams often come apart on their own. You could be wearing a garment and reach for something and the back of the sleeve would rip open! Dry rot is definitely a disappointment!!
The underarms that have the red polka dots are also what’s known as a gusset as you’ve added a diamond shape to the straight seam area.
I have also found that the older mending books show what you have done for patches like that lovely plaid dress with the other patch of red polka dots, though they tended to put a patch pocket over the patched area, not necessarily the same size as the patches, but still covering it up to be a nice little surprise for the wearer when looking inside of the pocket. It’s also a good way to make use of some hankies that have holes you aren’t wanting to darn.
I was inspired by your video to pull out the mending basket to get it going, and got a hole fixed in a knit sweater for a friend, and then also started using the invisible seam to fix the waistband for a pair of jeans that have a bit of fabric inside of the waistband that is pretty similar to the leggings material that folks like wearing. I don’t know if that is the right name for my stitch pattern, but it would be what a hand stitcher would use to close the gap in a side of a pillow or something similar. I did trim away the extra threads first.
After I finish the waistband repair, I have a couple of pairs of pants that need hemming to fit the friend who is petite. I tend to fold the fabric under a few times to get the right fit, and then use the machine with a zigzag stitch going over the edge of the fold and catching the pant leg every few stitches to make the Brother machine work for a blind stitch without any extra do-hickies.
The Brother website has some good access to the manuals for the machines and I have a digital version for my machine. It helps to be able to zoom in on the picture and in a pdf annotation program to add some notes on the page to make notes about what pieces in the picture are what in the abbreviated version of a tube of fabric or what not.
I just finished watching a video from Morgan Donner about mending! She found some fun and unusual ways to patch her things that you might like too! Now I feel doubly motivated to repair my clothes.
I saw hers after I posted mine, love her! She has such fun ideas for pretty mending!
Put a piece of rubbery drawer liner under your sewing machine on the table. It will keep it from running away. :)
LOL I wondered if anyone would notice that 😂😂😂 this is a great idea!
You may want to purchase some lightweight fusible woven interfacing, it can be cut and applied on the inside to help strengthen the area and will hold the mending. If you choose to take one apart for pattern, I would use that interfacing to help with accurate pattern pieces. Good job mending, I really enjoyed watching you work.
I love that you are encouraging the mending of clothes! So many people either donate clothes that have a little damage or throw it in the trash. Mending clothes doesn't usually take much time and if you take care of it right away, it prevents a larger repair later on. I just bought a speedweave loom to make my sock darning look nicer. It's getting harder to find socks I really love, so I want them to last as long as possible. Polishing shoes, boots and purses is something everyone can do to make their leather items last longer and look terrific. There are lots of UA-cam videos that will teach how to repair just about anything and I hope mending trends really take off in popularity.
Love the collar detail on the grey dress
That blue dress was made just for you. It is gorgeous on you!! Why don't we mend those older clothes until we we wear them out? My
granny was an excellent seamstress. She made my wedding dress for me. I was proud to wear her creations. I remember when I married my husband he bought me a brand new Singer and I made her Christmas gifts and she was so proud.
I need more mending vlogs in my life lol. This kept me company while I mended a worn collar and replaced buttons on one of my favorite flannels. Loved seeing all your mends!
I love that you save these dresses! And like you said, you can turn them into patterns once they are thread bear. I knew that was RM you were watching. She is a good one to follow! I wonder if she watches you too? If not, she should! Or do a collaboration. 😊
I was so inspired that I tackled my pile of mending that had been sitting there taking up space. I was hand sewing and it still took only about an hour. I also performed surgery on my granddaughter's stuffed capybara. It was a great feeling of accomplishment. Thank you for such an inspirational video. Though all of your videos are Inspirational. I love the slow living, cleaning ones best.😊
I love mending, I hand sew everything I mend because I find it meditative. I really enjoy caring for my things.
The farm print robe would make a cute pillow too. I love when people take their favorite sweaters that no longer fit and make pillows out of them. Have a wonderful week.
Mending rips and such is a great way to make our clothes look better❤❤
I grew up mending and sewing clothes. If anything couldn’t be fixed then we cut off buttons, zippers, etc before we threw them away.
Same!❤
First let me say you have amazing skills. You have totally inspired me to start sewing. I've had a garment in my closet forever. It needs to be hemmed, so I'm going to try. Yay.
19:25 That sounds great to make a pattern out of a dress.
Would love to see you take apart a dress and make a pattern and remake! Also would love more videos of matching outfits (dress, shoes, scarf, etc). ✨
If I put something to the side to mend, I use a piece of scrap paper, write what needs to be done, and pin it to the item. That way I'm not looking for what needs to be done, or miss something.
Nice video. I'm sorry you lost a couple of dresses, but I'm happy you could still put them to use as a pattern.
Love make-do and mend videos!
I have many 40,50, 60’s vintage items (sewing notions, to small furnishings, lamps, decor) from my grandparents I’d love to give you as you would give them the TLC they deserve. (They are sitting in a storage unit). Love from Indiana.
Oh boy, this video found me because I relate to what you're saying! Lots of mending needing done, most of it vintage or at least retro... items that need a bit of tasteful embellishing, sometimes to cover up stains or tears, moth holes etc.
I believe my wardrobe sent you to me! I have found my home! 😅🧡👏
yes! i try and always mend my clothes (i need to do thwt a lottt) and i buy clothes like once a year lol and mending clothes gives your clothes a feeling like they're really yours!
I love sewing videos. Thanks!
The blue flower dress has the best fit on you. ❤ love the neckline
I love mending . I put music on ...
Have some tea or coffee and go to it ! It's so fulfilling and gives me pride in saving all varieties of clothing and accessories .
When I’m in the “sewing mood”, mending flies by!
I’m so amazed by your collection of vintage clothing. I am definitely interested in wearing more dresses, especially cotton dresses.
That black and white dress you repaired that is dryrotting is stunning!
That 30s blue dress looks great on you
This is a game changer for me ! I have been clinging for the beautiful vintage dresses I have kept and didn't know how to mend. Thank you so much for making us realize it's completely possible to do it ourselves. Oh, and I am completely obsessed with the cloud print dress !!! I would want one like this so bad !! Love this channel and can't wait to see your new videos !
I LOVE the blue roses dress with the scalloped neckline and it looks fabulous on you!
Oh, you thrifty girl! This was such a joy to watch. They all looked lovely on you. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve never done any mending but this video has given me confidence to try and patch my kids school trousers❤
Didn't read all the comments but wanted to tell you about the open seam left shoulder blue flower dress. Love your dresses.
Do you ever iron when mending?
Never mind just saw the 20s dress getting ironed.
Lol yeah I noticed the popped seam after I filmed 😂 and I thought I had gotten them all.
I love the make do and mend approach! I think you did a great job with your mends and it’s given me inspiration to do some mending myself. Thanks for another great video! Can’t wait to see what you come up with next! ❤❤❤
The blue dress you had on at the end of your video was so flattering on you! I am an older woman now and just don't want to own so much so it's easy when I'm in that mindset to mend my clothes. My daughter ( who is in her early forties) just looks at me like I have two heads when I pull out my darning basket....
Yay! I voted for the velvet lace soo pretty 💕💕
I wish I enjoyed sewing!
You are to be commended for repairing clothing, rather than buying unnecessarily. Well done, you!. However, if I may offer some constructive criticism to help you from my 50+ years of sewing? Some of your mending methods will unintentionally lead to further damage due to nature and age of the fabrics you are repairing. Firstly, some water-soluble stabiliser will help you stabilise your patching (& excess will wash out in the laundry) or sometimes I even sneak in some tiny pieces of hemming adhesive web between the patch & the garment to secure everything nice & flat before sewing. Although there's never just one way to do anything, patching looks most discreet if done in straight stitch, back & forth repeatedly, hiding the many rows of stitching in between the lines in the fabric, ensuring same direction as the grain & using the pattern of the fabric as camouflage. Downtown Tailoring on YT demonstrates this really well on her video about patching jeans. Her channel is really useful for professional mending & alteration hints, I recommend it. Another thing (& please don't be offended, you look great) is that in the past, they didn't wear garments as tight as we do nowadays. They had foundation garments which were then padded out to fit the silhouette, so outer garments were cut with a lot more design ease (2-5 inches) plus a good deal more wearing ease (easily another 4 inches) because women were a lot more physically active domestically & they didn't have all the stretch fabrics we do now, for freedom of movement. If you continue to wear those lovely garments so tightly, the fabrics will not last; if you can let the seams out just a little, it will make a big difference to the garments & you will have them to wear for so much a longer. Best wishes & keep up the good work, keep landfill down & don't buy polyester :)
Wow, I thought what an undertaking with such a large family. Then, I saw the mended dress on you and you look wonderful in them. You inspire me!
This video has inspired me to do all of my mending, I have just been so lazy to do it recently.
Love this video. Please remake dresses! Would love to see that. I appreciate the close up photos of the patches. Would like to see close ups of dresses on hangers. Thank you.
The robe (?) housedress thingy with the polka dot armpits is my absolute fave. I have things that are tearing like tissue in front of my very eyes, scrambling to repair but I fear that soon it will just be patches, it's like scar tissue.
My husband bought me the broach and earrings you are wearing for Mother's Day last year when I sent him your friends' website. I did not expect him to buy it. It looks so beautiful with your dress. I love this video. I do this often. I love mending clothes to make new.
As someone who has worked in apparel, bravo- also you can take the dress you like to certain places to have replicated, they give you the pattern you can make more etc or you basically disassemble it yourself and replicate it this way- you can use cardboard and you trace etc.
I loved this video. Your love for these garments really shows. You looked beautiful in all of these. Your videos are so realistic and lived in, down to the baby-breathing in the audio. So refreshing
Yes! I used to nurse my daughter back during the blogging years and I’d blog while she was on her Bobby! I loved the baby noises in this!
So cute! I love your modeling. Those outfits are so cool.
I'd like to try duplicating garments for people, that have a perfect design and fit for them. I find more suitable garments for myself in thrift shops too. Once they're worn out, or discontinued....You could make a pattern and do several in different colours. I've even thought if you found a fashion design program, maybe they'd let you just take a non-credit pattern-making course and learn all the ins and outs.
Heck yeah mending! I completely understand putting things off and then the pile gets huge and overwhelming. Great job with all of these and well done working on your mending pile! Also, I have a system where I try to mark small holes and rips on garments with safety pins when I put them in my mending basket, so that I don't have to search for the holes again when I finally get around to mending them. I don't always remember to add the safety pins, but it's super useful when I do.
That is such a great idea. So often I grab something from the mending pile and then have to go search for where the problem was. Just mark it somehow! Yes!
If you ever have any interest in a more time consuming method of patching, sashiko embroidery is a great, visible option for areas that experience a lot of wear. It can also be done slowly over time (you can wear the garment a few times in the meantime) if you have the patch basted in place and raw edges are dealt with. I did this on a couple pairs of my boyfriend’s work pants and they’ve held up quite well so far through lots of wearing and washing/drying on harsher cycles.
You make it look so easy! I need to get a sewing machine and start learning.
Having a machine makes it 100x easier! I have some affordable ones in my Amazon storefront if you aren’t sure where to start. I know Amazon isn’t ideal but I bet you could find the same ones other places too!
Knowing how to do a zigzag stitch and straight stitch means you can definitely do like 90% of mending super fast!
DO IT!!!!
Your home looks so polished and sparkling clean!😎
Gosh you look so pretty in that light blue flower dress! 💙 I know red is your favorite but blue should be 2nd ;)
I have a small handful of clothes to mend and this video really inspired me to figure out a day and. Take. Care. Of. Them. Once and for all. I think only two of them are vintage. But here's for finding a day and time! And what a way to preserve them, if not just the original patterns for future recreations. They all look so amazing. The palm trees one has to be my favorite. Gives me vintage Tommy Bahamas vibes...you know, if they started in 1943 rather than 1993. First time learning the terms seam-splitting and dry-rotting. I have some 1970s bedsheets that are dry-rotting. Investing in some basic Amazon zipper suit bags has helped my assurance in preserving some vintage clothing I own.
Adorable and excellent repairs!
I love that little blue floral dress. It is a shame that it is disintegrating before your eyes. However, it is doing what natural fibers do and you are getting every last bit of use out of it, which is a total win. It’s really pretty too.
I learned how to use the button hole attachment last year and you are right it is game changing . I think it upped sewing game so much. Congratulations on learning up for yourself. 🌻👏🏽
I'm so impressed by your skills and how you preserve your wardrobe.😊
I'd love to see more sewing content. Love your videos!
You did a great job fixing up your clothes. They look beautiful. 😊❤️
You got SO MUCH DONE! Way to go! ❤
I'd be really curious to have a video about dry rot. I've been googling and it's kind of confusing. Is it caused by sulfuric/acidic dyes? By fungus from damp/improper storage? Is it a catch all term for different things? Can it only happen if natural fibers? All natural fibers?
Great video! 👗
Love this video thank you for sharing
I mend a ton and it is nice to see your pile is a year old too. I mend by hand which takes time, but slow living is my thing! Thank you for sharing and I like your cheery intro music. Take care, Fran
Yay!! I’m so glad you were able to save so many of those lovely dresses! I really need to do a mending day 😅
The blue and white print dress is soooo sooo pretty! ❤
When I'm in a mending mood, I can whip through it but mostly it piles up and I overthink the repair on pretty dresses and just procrastinate actually starting. This is really inspiring and I need to catch up so I can start new projects soon. All look great. My favourite dress ,style and colour is that blue one that you're wearing to close. So cute! The sleeves , scalloped neckline ,everything. Love it. Thank you for sharing. ❤❤ Dry rot is the worst!😔
Yes! ❤to giving older clothes a New Life. I would trace the pieces of the ones dry rotting & use as a pattern. To make more dresses, if you really love that style 🤗
I absolutely love the blue dress you repaired, it's so cute on you!! My grandmother (who was a young woman in the 30s) would take her "housecoat" and keep it repaired by hand, including taking it in at the sides as she lost weight and repairing holes that wore through the cotton. She never learned how to use a sewing machine!
The farm print robe is to die for. 😍 I also LOVED the blue rose dress and the last dress (red plaid) had such a cute, western collar. Great job salvaging these beauties!
Hi Kristina, this was very interesting. I once made a beautiful old fashioned nightgown out of a vintage linen tablecloth. I didn't realize it had dry rot. My foot went right through it. I was so disappointed. What a lesson.
🙋♀️❤️. The Princess Peggy blue dress is so beco
ming on you!
I loved this video! I wish more people would mend instead of throw away, so much waste going on these days. Who cares how the mend is done, it works!
All the while u were sewing the dry rot dresses i was thinking, wow i would so love to take those lovely ladies and use them as patterns!!😊 You are such a beautiful lady and such a wonderful role model. This video really lifted my spirits today❤❤
The dresses look great. So cool finishing some else's vintage UFO, too.
A buttonhole foot is great, but I was reminded of my trouble when first using mine. Even in tutorials nobody mentioned you need to push the lever back before each buttonhole. I kept getting one perfect buttonhole and then it didn't work until I "reset" by pushing back the lever. Tangled thread knots, vowing to stop trying to do buttonholes, and questioning my decision to start sewing again as an adult resulted. Once I finally found the solution, I'm so happy to have it, but it took awhile to find the problem.
You're looking good.
edit; yes, more mending videos please, and thank you for sharing.
Oh love that red plaid dress! And your polka dot mending fabric.
17:23 This blue dress looks amazing on you 😊
I love how a couple if my favorite youtubers have done videos about mending.
I tend to follow the motto:
Use ut up
Wear it out
Make it do
Or do without
In my life and mending clothes is part of that. Mending and mending and mending. I've got some gowns which were vibrantly jewel toned when i bought them new but have been worn so much that the grommets are falling out (i need to pull the cords out and redo the eyelets by hand), holes are wraring in them and the fronts are bleached a noticibly different color from time spent in the sun! I was sad that i didn't get to see you experiment with dye since that's something i'm wanting to do with a few of my gowns.
As usual, wonderful video and i did a little happy noise that startled my cat when i saw you watching rachel maksy!
Well done!!! You accomplish a LOT in a day don't you?!
I love this. I've been trying to learn darning and mending. ❤
The blue rose dress is so Beautiful ❤ i love your sew videos 😊
So many cute pieces! I would love to make some patterns of clothes I love that just need to be a bit bigger😉. Great reminder to take care of what we have and don’t just get new stuff. Can you imagine any of the cheap clothes from this year lasting over 80 years!? Love your channel and your message…and your little one in the background of your voiceover was so sweet🥰
This is a lovely video and inspired me to fix my own clothes. Very interested to see how you'll sort your vintage clothes as I have a few too
Great dresses! And they fit perfectly. I understand why you don’t want to let them go. With my kids I learned that repairing is always an option. Without they would need new jeans every few weeks. I’d really like to increase my skills… but we also have to normalize patches again! Love your work!
Bianca over on The Closet Historian did a video on remaking a garment. It was a couple of years ago, but her videos are really thorough so you might want to take a look.
I love that little polka dot fix. It's so cute!
I use school glue doing patches. Iron the edges to the patch. Sew. Wash and wear.
Your strawberry pin is so cute 😊 🍓 you always look so nice in your dresses. I’d like to wear more dresses, but I’m so used to wearing pants all the time that I usually feel uncomfortable in a skirt or dress
So glad you have made this video. I try to mend everything as soon as I can, and am still wearing home made clothes that are decades old! I sometimes update them with a slight nod to the latest fad, but honestly trends come and go so fast these days, that if you keep something for ten years, it’s bang up to date again 😂
I don’t know if you have a darning stitch on your machine, but I’ve used mine many times to darn pillowcases and clothes etc. It works so well and is a slightly better version of the ordinary zigzag stitch. The darning stitch can be found on your machine (for anyone who hasn’t used it yet) along with other decorative stitches, and the sign looks like a rectangle of zigzagging in rows. It does the work itself, like an automatic buttonhole. Hope that makes sense. It makes my darning look really neat. Other people bring me stuff to darn now too. I think this is a growing trend, so we are right up there - at the forefront of a new revolution 😅
Bless you for your lovely ideas Kristina, and how inspiring you are to so many of us, even us oldies in their 70s ❤xxx
Love your love for vintage! Loved your mending I've picked up some tips! Love your whimsy patches😊❤
Yes for more videos like this! ☺️♥️
I find your videos so interesting. You have inspired me to learn how to sew and embroider ❤
I have started mending. I love the blue dress!
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So funny you did this video. I just mend 5 vintage dresses of mine also. There housedresses so a few flaws are no big deal.
I totally remembered Lacey saying she is giving some of the dresses to a friend 🧡
How cool, it was you 😊