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Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the clothes and belongings you love! Mending Life, a beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout, encourages us to break free from the fast fashion industry by repairing our clothes rather than discarding them. Along with DIY and how-to illustrations and tutorials, you’ll find heartfelt stories by authors Nina and Sonya Montenegro (creators of the popular @TheFarWoods) that encourage you to change your consumption habits, celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, demonstrate mending as a powerful act that not only strengthens the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well. Beginners and Seasoned Sewers will find:Basic Mending Skills - how to thread a needle, how to tie knots, and basic stitches Sashiko - a striking Japanese hand-sewing technique for reinforcement and decoration Darning - plain weave, swiss weave, crocheted patch, knitted patch, and needle-felted patch Patching - the best three ways to patch holes how-to guide Mending Tutorials by Item - down jackets, shirt cuffs, and linen Other Common Repairs - snags, buttons, belt loops, leggings, pant pockets, and more Sewing Beyond Mending - hemming pants, taking garments in, and adding pockets Extend the life of your favorite clothes and beloved household items with mending with this timeless and practical guide to cherishing and caring for our belongings.
Sonya and Nina have gifted readers with the transformative and remarkable skill of mending, but they also bring deep wisdom and reflection on what it means to be alive - the patience needed, the gentleness needed, the practice and ritual needed. Every page is filled with handwritten and hand-drawn sweetness - in-depth tutorials, specific and easy to follow steps to mending, and, for me personally, reflections on 'why it matters.'I bought this book to use in my ecofeminism class at the university. As a professor I struggle to pull students out of their cerebral spaces and remind them that we must also engage our bodily lives. Our hands can literally make the world better in the practice of mending. Students need to remember that our healing is an embodied experience of tending, caring, mending for ourselves, our coveted possessions, and each other. This book is the most perfect entrance into thinking about resilience and hope. It gives us a hands-on option for fixing our worlds. To make the world better. To make ourselves better.I imagine this as the best family heirloom book, passed from one generation to the next. It is tender and sweet. It is also deeply practical. I love it so much. I bought three copies so I can gift them to guests and students who yearn for this work.
