CRAFT’s March Mending Month

By On March 13, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Tutorials

I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this before today! Did you know it’s Mending Month over at CRAFT?
Arwen O'Reilly Griffith's Darning Tutorial from CRAFT

My favorite tutorial they’ve done so far is the one on darning from Arwen O’Reilly Griffith, and not just because she titled it Darn It! She shows you how to darn a worn blanket, a sock, and a glove. Her pictures are great, and the instructions are clear and easy to follow.

This particular tutorial couldn’t have come at a better time, since Molly recently clawed through our sheets!

They’re doing new posts every day with techniques for fixes like patches, saving buttonholes, getting out stains in clothing, fixing a sofa cushion, and repairing old dinnerware. Good on CRAFT for getting the word out about reuse! We live in such a consumerist, throw-away society, I love seeing folks opting to mend worn out items and give them a new life!

[Photo via CRAFT]

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2 Responses to CRAFT’s March Mending Month

  1. Sage McGreen says:
    March 13, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Darn it! Sounds like an irish mending blessing from the Irish O’Reilly Griffith Clan. I think I have a hole in my head, Should I Darn it.!?!

  2. Becky says:
    March 13, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Only if you use contrasting thread! Gotta show off that hard work!