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elysha @worthmending.com · 03/09/2026

Worth the tornado warnings?

Bold orange sunset with puffy clouds filling the sky. Photo taken tonight near downtown Kitchener.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 20/08/2026

I oopsed & let someone steal my bike :) #Kitchener @cyclewr.ca project529.com/garage/bikes...

Image with text overlay.

Above: Normalizing surveillance is not chic.
Middle: image from a doorbell camera of someone in a black shirt riding a road bike downhill with two panniers on the rear rack.
Below: Help me find my bike tho?

Top image: bike in a messy garage.
Middle text describes bike: Small [black] Nishiki road bike with a pink bottle cage, leather seat & handlebar wrap, full fenders, rear rack. Generator hub and lights. Swiped from Fairview/King along with my laptop :(
Bottom image: View of legs riding the same bike. There is a water bottle in the pink cage and you can see the custom handlebar wrap as well as the generator hub.

Top image: bike in a messy garage.
Middle text describes bike: Yes it's low-key fancy but I build it as a volunteer at Recycle Cycles and it's been my main summer ride for over a decade. I am a careful consumer, but yeah, am a little naive about thieves.
Bottom image: View of legs riding the same bike. There is a water bottle in the pink cage and you can see the custom handlebar wrap as well as the generator hub.

Image almost entirely covered in text. Background is Elysha riding said bike, wearing sunglasses , yellow helmet, a black shirt & rainbow shorts.
Text: i feel so helplessly let down by my politicians who refuse to provide basic care to their citizens, which leads to desperate people hurting strangers to try and survive
i just want to ride my bike

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elysha @worthmending.com · 18/08/2026

Can't imagine I have many local people on here but hiiii come to this? Let's mend & watch lil short movies! Saturday August 30 at Kwartzlab. $15 includes basic supplies & snacks. worthmending.com/products/aug...

Flyer for Mending & Movies event at Kwartzlab.

August theme: linen. Learn to hand-stitch and patch holes in linen/lightweight garments. All skill levels welcome! Bring your mending or other WIP and join us is to stitch and watch some classic NFB shorts, with time to chat and troubleshoot in between.

August 30, 1-3 pm (doors at 12:45)
145 Bedford Rd, 2nd floor (no elevator access), Kitchener.

$15, basic supplies & snacks provided. Registration link in thread.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 12/08/2026

They're nice trousers, wool, and buckles that adjust the waistband size. The zipper pull was corroded and seized, I cleaned and replaced it and added a new zipper stop.

Fixed trousers!! Black wool with pleats and two buckles that adjust the waistband size. I am showing off the new red zipper stop.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

This month they’re doing collages. Collages stress me out and I’m a little glad I’m missing out BUT I do hear lots of people find that collage art is fun and light and sweet and overall BGDC is a darling queer community space open to all ages go enjoy!!

This is the image I used to make the previous digital flyer, it is a picture from the last time Be Gay Do Crafts did collage. The part that stressed me out was that I offered my copy of the Canadian Green Consumer Guide for some reason...which I regretted a lot because it's a cool book. Oh well. Maybe I will patch it back together one day.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

But if you don’t want to brave that big-city fibre stuff, you can drop in at Kwartzlab’s monthly Be Gay Do Crafts event, March 28 & the last Saturday of every month. RSVP kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

Be Gay Do Crafts digital flyer. A collage, with orange stripes and a black bird mid-flight coming in on the left. Block of text reads: be gay do crafts, a queer crafternoon at kwartzlab makerspace. last saturday of every month, 2-4 pm. guided crafts or bring your own. this month: collage. march 28 2026. free, all supplies provided. rsvp: kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

Finally we’re closing out the month in Toronto with Knit City on March 27-29. This will be a big one! There are TONS of vendors in addition to talks and workshops, check their website for more info :)

Digital flyer for Knit City Toronto. March 27-29, 2026 at Enercare Centre. The top half of the flyer shows three white people hanging out at the Tullys Yarn/Worth Mending booth. Yep, that's us! I'm caught with a goofy look on my face and one hand in motion because I'm probably flailing around, with my two friends looking quite normal in the background. Ooh, all of our booth display stuff got stolen last year so our display this year will look totally different how fun is that!

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

March 22 is the Hamilton Fibre Forge! This kicks off the fibre festival season for us, we look forward to seeing you :) either there orrrr the next weekend ::::

Hamilton Fibre Market flyer. Sunday March 22, 2026. 10-4 at the Cotton Factory: 270 Sherman Ave N in Hamilton. Bottom half of image is a slightly out of focus cropped view of Worth Mending table at a previous Hamilton Fibre Market event. You can see two Swift Darning Looms and a scattering of brightly coloured tiny tapestries woven on the same loom.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

March 19th is our monthly Repair Cafe and Mending Night at Kwartzlab. It’s free! We prefer that you sign up in advance via kwartzlab.eventbrite.com but clothing repair drop-ins are welcome, I'll be there to help :)

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

This Sunday! If I'm lucky, I'll get to gawk at a bunch of Irish knitwear riddled with holes. Can't wait! Get tickets at irishreallife.ca ($25/pwyc at the KW Art Gallery)

Digital flyer, background image is a beautiful muted purple cable knit cardigan being repaired with pink and gold yarn. The top half shows the repair in-progress, Elysha's hands darning using a Swift Darning Loom. The bottom half is the "after" image, the cuffs highlighted in gold with a pink-and-gold darn on the right sleeve. This sweater was given to me by a friend and now that it's fixed, it's beloved by my little sister she's so lucky!

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/03/2026

Firstly, you do get this cover image I created for IG because well, I need everyone to know that sorting sticks at Steckle Farm (with Agnes of mindfulmakers.ca and swooppublicart.ca) is a very cute and sweet activity

A digital flyer of sorts, with the text worth mending what's happening; march events. the background image is a view from inside a barn on a sunny blue late-feb day, you can see the landscape through the open barn door. in the foreground there are a bunch of willow sticks leaning to the left, and in the middle ground are my stick-sorting pals sorting sticks. This was Agnes' first year growing willow at Steckle (aka Stickle) Farm and I'm so delighted to support her sweet sticky ventures.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 26/02/2026

Sewing days are my favourite moments to yell at the radio (or yell with the radio?), I don't know if this is what you want me to be posting about, Dear Reader, but I'm happy to serve anyway 🫡 uh not in a military way

A blue sewing machine surrounded by a bunch of patchwork denim (blue and black) pieces in progress, they're gonna be mini zippered pouches hopefully by the end of tomorrow.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 24/02/2026

EAEC47 is my favourite digital colour and I use it often when highlighting/colour-coding/graphic-designing. I picked it in 2020 or 2021 without too much thought: just moving the little crosshair around until it landed somewhere in the “bright chartreuse” range.

screenshot of a colour picker for the colour #eaec47. the colour breakdown reads: hue 60, sat 178, val 236, red 234, green 236, blue 71.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 20/02/2026

This weekend: mending event Next weekend: clothing swap and also a lil mending fun. But as @rosewoodstitches.bsky.social so aptly put it, the clothing swap will be BUSY so come out this weekend for more of my attention & a nice relaxing repair session:):):) #Kitchener #WatReg #VisibleMending

Handwritten flyer for Be Gay Do Crafts, a queer crafternoon event at Kwartzlab Makerspace. This month's theme is a clothing swap and DIY repair, taking place from 2-4 pm on Saturday February 28. RSVP at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

Digital flyer for Give Your Clothes Some Love, a mending event that was originally gonna be closer to Valentine's Day but is now on February 22! Choose your session, 1-4 or 5-8 pm. Buy tickets at worthmending.com/22 or RSVP for free at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com

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elysha @worthmending.com · 18/02/2026

The expression is (apparently) "underwater basket weaving", Ford and can a medical degree do THIS? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wicker bird sculpture on a white background, with a brass bird looming behind. The woven bird has a short grumpy stature, an oversized beak and a little bowl-shaped hat that hints at eyes and a crest.

The same two birds again, this time photographed from a higher angle. The woven bird's "hat" has been inverted and now the points face upwards to look more like a crown.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 03/02/2026

Okok fixed!! ✅ Included this in my lil newsletter w lots of other repairs and things I've been up to, and info about upcoming workshops sooooo hi Kitchener Waterloo #WatReg consider signing up/following to fix your own stuff in good company too! worthmending.com/newsletter #VisibleMending

Green sweater, already mended at the collar, with small hole on shoulder seam

Green sweater, mending in progress with yellow yarn. Patching the hole with a duplicate stitch technique that would be totally invisible if I wanted it to be (if I used the same colour of yarn) but I don't:):)

Green sweater, patched!! Previous visible mending on collar, cuff, and elbow also pictured, in varying shades of green and yellow as well.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 27/01/2026

Went on a bit of a willow weaving bender.

Three willow baskets and three basket bases stacked on an antique radiator (it's a one-pipe steam system but we don't have to talk about that). Brown, green, and red willow woven into a large oval, small oval, and small round asymmetrical basket! Three round bases for future weaving whims.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 24/01/2026

Visible mending is silly because I could for sure fix this hole right now and no one would know it even existed... Or I could wait til it's out of control and do something cool with the repair 😌😂

Green sweater with a small hole near the upper shoulder. There are already some pale green repairs on the collar.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 15/01/2026

Anyway here are all the stories I just posted en route to the repair cafe tonight 🥰

IG reshare of a post about repair cafe and text says "happy that this post got some local eyes and we have a great crew signed up both to help & get stuff fixed! However wowowowowoow is it ever snowing, so maybe I'll see you next month instead? ... I'll still be there, undecided on bike/walk" [slightly abridged]

Pic of a residential street, lots of snow, not plowed, sun shining in background. Text overlay says "beautiful day to walk (most of the sidewalks were even clear!"

Selfie with cleared bike trail and blue sky in the background, text overlay says "Pedestrian superhighway perfectly maintained as always 💘"

Main street in Kitchener (it's Weber for the creeps), not plowed, and where the asphalt peeks through its slippy. Text overlay says "Main roads are a top tier ice rink under that snow"

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/01/2026

34 was the year my hands finally started saying they're tired. Need to figure out how to care for them better. For now, mending by machine instead of just a needle and thread. Picking a strategy that's a little easier on the hands 👐🏻

Black leggings being repaired with pink cotton thread at a sewing machine. The previous repairs are visible too, dots of grey yarn hand-stitched and holding up well after a year of wear.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 04/11/2025

Why throw stuff out you might need it one day!!!!!!! 😅 But yeah this really happened, was I delighted to help my neighbour fix her table this morning? You. Bet. ugh. love my neighbours so much

A handful of chonky old screws taken from disassembled furniture.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 24/09/2025

Jk here's a selfie of me walking away from the merch table all defeated looking for my friends so I could at least feel loved while moping my way through the headliner set xoxoox give us functional public transit

Elysha, wide-eyed mirror image snapchat selfie. Overlay text says "What's ur location". Yellow bangs, brown hair otherwise. Black glasses, black mask. Wearing awesome mushroom print shirt sewn by my friend and given to me at a clothing swaaaaapppppp

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elysha @worthmending.com · 16/09/2025

Ruined my own day being sad about my stolen suitcase but hey what are the hashtags that give me a slice of a chance anyone nearby might see this and keep an eye out? #Kitchener #DTKitchener #WatReg #DTKLove ? My apologies to the petty thieves that we've failed you so, you deserve better <3

Photo of a green suitcase with pleading caption to please let me know if you see such an item ditched somewhere. Downtown Kitchener/Central Frederick area. The latches PIVOT which is weird & why our night visitor couldn't open it to realize there was nothing of value inside before dragging it off.

Our display fully set up on Saturday at The Aud. These are the sorts of items that are inside - fabric, mostly, and some wood. Scott survived and didn't get kidnapped, fortunately, he's not nearly as replaceable :) even though all this stuff took hours and hours to make. It's replaceable 😮‍💨

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elysha @worthmending.com · 06/06/2025

Final count stopped at 160 "queer as in"s and embroidery didn't work out so I tried sublimation printing. Here they are!!!!! I love them ❤️‍🔥🙂‍↔️

8.4x14" white fabric printed with a rainbow (digitized version of the rainbow fabric from previous post) and 160 phrases printed on top which all start with "queer as in". Not enough room here to write them all out, sorry! :( image is mirrored because this was actually a misprint where I forgot to mirror the image before printing! Oopsie!

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elysha @worthmending.com · 05/06/2025

Made this cutie patch with brainstorming help from my friends at kw queer birders! Might make more, chime in with your "queer as in ___" ideas that we missed?

a rectangular rainbow-striped patch on top of more rainbow-striped fabric. The colour grade starts and ends with pink, with ROYGGBV in between. All but the pink rows hold a phrase, in a plain machine-embroidered lower case font:

queer as in collective liberation
queer as in fuck the police
queer as in housing for all
queer as in fire to the prisons
queer as in free palestine
queer as in land back
queer as in then, now, forever

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elysha @worthmending.com · 22/04/2025

“Fast fashion swept away a certain kind of commonsense know-how and respect surrounding our clothing, from how to recognize a good buy and shop for quality to how to sew on a button and mend a hole in a favourite pair of jeans. I am to do my part to resurrect these time-tested life skills."

Mended jeans on a white table. Foreground text reads: "Choosing well for our wardrobes [and mending]… are some of the most emotionally rewarding habits we can cultivate in our everyday lives.”

This and the main text are quotes from
– Elizabeth L. Cline, The Conscious Closet

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elysha @worthmending.com · 21/03/2025

Stretching it over the side of my #SwiftDarner work surface helped (the threads were a little more visible, yet the groove left space for the latch hook to reach around) but this was still so silly to try lol

and not silly in a fun way 🧐 this was microscope work. Green rib knit held vertically on a wooden plank which you can see has a groove cut out of the side. Blue elastic keeping everything taut. White sewing thread holding the stitches that were just ladder-darned with a latch hook but there is still a hole visible. Pale hand and green background slightly out of focus.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 21/03/2025

An impossibly fussy and futile pursuit, even for me 🧐 #mending

Pale hands holding a magnifying lens that is attempting to embiggen an exceptionally fine, green rib knit. You can see the window reflection more clearly than the latch hook that is attempting to pick up dropped stitches radiating from the hole in this garment.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 03/03/2025

#Kitchener #Waterloo #WatReg #DTKLove I don't really know how this website works to reach people but hey, I host a monthly mending night & it's this week! worthmending.com/events

Digital flyer showing a heavily repaired pair of green pants on the left, and text on the right. Title: MEND YOUR CLOTHES with worth mending. Details: first Wednesday of the month, 7-9 pm at Kwartzlab Makerspace, 145 Bedford Rd Kitchener. Description: Build your skills to patch, darn, hem, sew buttons, fix seams and other common repairs. Basic supplies provided. Cost: free/ $10/ pay what you want. Email questions to elysha@worthmending.com ❤️‍🔥

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elysha @worthmending.com · 02/03/2025

comment was inspired by walking into the bathroom & finding some plant cuttings I was setting up to propagate, I'll finish that now 😂

Close up of a novelty plant pot depicting a squirrel holding a giant acorn. The acorn is open on top and full of pebbles. In the background there is a second same pot with plant cuttings already in it. Between is a random mug with a birch bark pattern that kinda adds to the foresty scene, and out of focus my sister scraped her name into the backsplash of the countertop.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 23/02/2025

Silly selfie Scott bombed into. I wore all clothes I got from previous swaps or otherwise friends! Had a different shirt on when we started but it was hotttt in there 🥵 so I picked up this great handmade tee!

Elysha selfie in front of mirror in Kwartzlab textiles space. There's a lot going on in the pic but most notably Scott is blurry, walking past making a funny face that the camera managed to capture. Swapped 'fit is green tee (new today), black/white checkerboard skirt (used to be a cardigan), wool tights given to me full of holes (now mended), orange socks (also very mended)...and thrifted ~indoor shoes~. In the frame you can see a dress form, a floor loom, and a wall (plastered with sewing patterns to make an abstract brown pattern) covered in shelves of sewing machines, thread and other notions.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 07/02/2025

#GraphicDesignIsMyPassion ok but this sine wave distortion is so FUN I love what it does to the wood grain and the weaving!!!! Fun fact for nerds, I do all of my editing in #theGIMP on #Linux. FOSS forever!

A Swift Darning Loom beside a pair of socks mended in blue and pink. The whole scene has a vertical sine wave distortion filter applied, so it's all wavy and weird looking. The wood grain is wavy and the darned patches look not like a plain weave but more like an undulating twill weave.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 04/02/2025

This message feels like a good one to share this week ✨💕 #VisibleMending #WorthMending #SwiftDarner worthmending.com/blogs/mending-migration

text on off-white paper reads: "Less despair, more repair!" surrounded by flowers, bees, clouds, sun and moon in the Mending Migration passport. Words and doodles by Lara!

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elysha @worthmending.com · 03/02/2025

Biking makes me happy all year round 💫 grateful for our well-maintained bike routes and looking forward to more!! @cyclewr.bsky.social

Biking down one of our city's well-maintained bike trails during a cold snap, feeling very cool and brave. White person with glasses brown curly hair. Bright helmet, bright cowl (hand knit, from a clothing swap!), wool jacket. Orange wool mitten obscuring part of the shot on the right side of the frame.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 01/02/2025

Scott called me an information hoarder for getting excited to save this image "even though I'm never gonna do anything with it" but COME ON who wants to twin with me for a May Day costume??? We can prove him wroooonggggg! 😌

Two people walking down a cobble street dressed fully as daisies. The composite middle part of the flower makes a hat/mask combo for a full disguise and the long petals fan out past their waists. Wearing all green on torso/legs to resemble flower stalks.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 31/01/2025

App culture is such a thing. Count on Facebook to always breed this sort of weird "gotcha" nonsense that completely misses the point

Screenshot from Facebook. Original name is marked out for anonymity.
Comment reads: "10 on amazon vs 100+ on worth mending.. heh.."
Worth Mending reply is shown below: "thanks yes, there are cheaper alternatives for most consumer products including ones similar to ours! grateful that our customers know not everything is a race to the bottom to mass produce things ❤️"

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elysha @worthmending.com · 30/01/2025

Ok this happened, cutest cutest, heart heart, may it go viral only to the kindest corners of the short video net where I just posted a short video about it. But you're here just for the goods: full how-to at www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuHT... #SwiftDarner #VisibleMending #Darning #MendAllTheThings

Blue heart darned on a vintage sweater. Yarn mess and Swift Darning Loom in the background, on a table covered in pink and green patchwork.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 29/01/2025

It delights me to no end that I helped start twooooo queer hobby clubs & there's starting to be more crossover between them. I missed birding on Sunday...where apparently two people lamented missing Saturday's craft session! 😉😇 (Still haven't snapped a pic of what I made. Will try again today!)

Screenshot of a worthmending instagram story. The background is pale pink and there are three collaged images of yarn flowers on a circle loom, in hand and attached to a tiny woven tapestry. The text describes being excited about the attendance but forgetting to take a pic of what I created. Be Gay Do Crafts is a free drop-in on the last Saturday of every month at a local community makerspace.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 28/01/2025

Caito on IG shared a HEART SHAPED #SwiftDarner patch that I couldn't wait to try! Couldn't even wait long enough to dump all the other vids off my phone apparently, got this far before I realized it wasn't recording lol TAKE 2 LET'S GO 💘 #VisibleMending

Instagram story screenshot from annihilaity and worthmending. Text reads, A: "I made a patch that isn't square!" to which W replies, "omg!!! 💘🩶🩷 heck yeah you did!!! You cracked heart weaving on a loom? I love this I need to try it asap!!!” all very excitedly of course. The background image is a black and pink heart-shaped patch on a black sock.

The sleeve of a beige, navy, and burgundy toned sweater is strapped onto a Swift Darning Loom. The patch in progress is navy blue and shows the scalloped top edge of a heart at the bottom of the warp strands. There is a second patch already completed over to the bottom right. Everything is laid on a half pink/green tablecloth with some yarn visible near the top of the frame.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 28/01/2025

(same squares I used for these patchwork knees!) #VisibleMending #SustainableFashion what's a succinct hashtag to say mending just makes your wardrobe way frickin cooler??? 💫

Black jeans on a pink rag rug, with both knees patched in the same pattern of pink, yellow, and blue squares sewn together. There's also a repair down by the hem where the jeans may have gotten caught in a bike chain?

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elysha @worthmending.com · 28/01/2025

Lining is great but a little heavier weight than I should have chosen. If this doesn't work out it's still a gorgeous project that I enjoyed taking my sweet time making 😍

Close-up of the same bag, with the black-and-white textured woven lining showing.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 28/01/2025

My sister was teasing me for "that time I cut like 500 2" squares" out of fabric scraps, so I figured it was time I made something from em. #SewSustainable

Stacks of colourful fabric squished in rows inside a clear acrylic tray. lots of pinks, greens, reds, and blues visible!

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elysha @worthmending.com · 27/01/2025

Caught up with some folks in the Worth Mending Discord voice/video chat last night 🥰 here is a before-and-after of the project I pulled out! #VisibleMending #RepairCulture #SlowFashion We'll probably meet up again next week, come join if you want:):):) all skill levels welcome.

A blue plaid sleeve covered in white running stitch mends as well as two heart-shaped patches in red patterned fabric and outlined with thick red stitches. Repairing the left side of the sleeve is in progress, more white stitches stacked in curved lines.

Same sleeve but on the left side there's now a new rectangular red patch outlined in thick white stitches! The red patterned fabric has sort of vaguely neuron/mushroom shapes laid out geometrically.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 24/01/2025

This acrylic sweater got a weeeee bit close to 🔥 One basic patch to start, but have a new lil creative idea to try for the main event. Posting so I follow through 😂 #DigitalBodyDoubling ?? Kinda kidding cuz this is for my housemate & I don't think she'll let me forget 😇 #VisibleMending #SwiftDarner

Woven patch in burgundy and beige on the sleeve of a vintage grampa sweater knit in burgundy, beige, and navy. Light-skinned hand gesturing to the patch. A small hole is visible just below the completed darn.

Flip side of the sleeve from the first pic, same pale hand peering into a large hole melted at the edges from a campfire. The other repair is directly opposite and you can see the weave right through this hole. Scene is on a colourful patchwork background of pink and green, and my Swift Darning Loom is off to the left.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 24/01/2025

We moved last year and our new neighbours have a magnificent garden. They gave us so many jalapenos. This is the last of the cowboy candy I made with them, goodnight sweet (and spicy) prince

A toasted poppyseed bagel sits on top of a round wooden cutting board. It's got a generous slathering of vegan butter and topped again with sliced pickled jalapeno rounds. To the right is the jar of remaining brine with a fork in it. The whole setup is at the edge of a white table with wooden flooring out of focus in the background.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 21/01/2025

Another lil WIP. Tapestry weaving craft with poppies from my neighbour's garden 🌼 what hashtags are people using? #Weaving ? #Tapestry ? #SwiftDarner 😇💘

Beige fabric laid on green sofa. On the fabric, a wooden frame sits around an array of dried poppy heads. The stalks are attached with a narrow band of black weaving. The weaving is being attached to the beige background with black stitches. A wooden darning loom (used to weave the poppies) and snips sit just out of frame on the left side.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 21/01/2025

Help I've fallen deep into the hole of loom flowers and I don't know what to do with them all

A pile of around 40 woven flowers on a white table, 6 or 12 petals each, in red/orange/yellow yarn. Three cog-shaped cardboard looms and a pair of scissors are also in the frame.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 09/01/2025

Close-up of the extra stitches. These knees are two layers - strong denim inside, and decorative quilting cotton patch stuck on with interfacing. The denim patch inside is solid but wanting to show off alllllll the squares I left the seam allowance too small and it started peeking out. Oopsie 😇

Close up. The jeans are barely visible but it's a knee patch, in patchwork quilt squares of pink/blue/yellow patterns. 2-3 rows of small running stitches at top and bottom secure the patchwork to the denim below, where the original seam allowance was too small to hold properly.

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elysha @worthmending.com · 09/01/2025

Patchwork knees! Added a couple'a stitches where I didn't leave enough seam allowance on the one 😳 #BeExtremelyGenerous also goes for seams!!! #VisibleMending

Black jeans laid flat on a pink rag rug. The knees have been mended with patchwork squares, 4x5 each, in shades of pink, blue, and yellow prints. There is also a repair at the cuff, black circled in pink.

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