{"product_id":"9781800656406","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending: With Over 20 Easy Projects: Bring New Life to Old Clothes with Darning, Applique, Sashiko-Style Stitching, and More - Shelley Zetuni (Paperback) 15-09-2026","description":"\u003cp\u003eBRING NEW LIFE to old clothes or charity-shop finds and create your SUSTAINABLE WARDROBE.    Learn techniques such as DARNING, EMBROIDERY, NEEDLE-FELTING, APPLIQUE and BINDING.    Repairing your old clothes is a brilliant way of adding personality to your wardrobe, is good for the environment and saves money. Perfect for complete beginners, this handbook introduces a variety of mending techniques and shows you how to make unique projects with your new skills.     First, there is a guide to all the tools you'll need, from hand-sewing needles to darning discs and mushrooms. Then, explore different methods of mending, with detailed step-by-step guides, followed by easy projects to put your skills into practice. Learn how to create vibrant patterns with darning, strengthen and embellish with sashiko-style stitching, cover stains with needle-felting and handmade patches, and much more. Throughout, you'll find advice on choosing colours, threads and materials, and how to incorporate a visible mend into the existing style of a garment or use it to give the item a complete refresh.    The 20 beautiful projects include adding needle-felted embellishments to a scarf, repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching a hole in fine silk fabric and adding colourful darning to a jumper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Shelley Zetuni \/ Lifestyle - Art, Craft \u0026 Photography \/ 15-09-2026","offer_id":57357031866748,"sku":"9781800656406","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9781800656406.jpg?v=1787750549","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9781800656406","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}