Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold-but draw on traditional stitching.
It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: 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, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.
Staff Choice: Lília
Apparently mending is making a re-appearance in our lives, especially for people interested in helping save the planet. It's hopefully here to stay and to teach people that you can still make beautiful things while also mending them for continuous use. Katrina Rodabaugh brings that ideal to us in a beautifully presented book.
Staff Choice: Lília
This is a great source of inspiration for visible and invisible mending, a more sustainable way of making things and looking at the world. Rodabaugh is one of those people who live what they preach, and she does it with simplicity.