Pre-Owned Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More, 9781419729478, 1419729470, Hardcover, Illustrated edition

9781419729478. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 224. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. 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.