Nina Montenegro

Sonya Montenegro

Learn the art and craft of mending—a joyful and meditative practice and a powerful act of restoration for the clothes and belongings we love. This beautifully illustrated handbook will show you how to mend jeans, socks, sweaters, down jackets, and leggings and other common repairs. Mending Life encourages us to cherish our things by repairing them rather than discarding them. Filled with heartfelt stories that celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, it also encourages us to change our consumption habits so that with small mends here and there, we extend the life of our garments and other household items. Encouraging readers interested in slow fashion and craftcore, this handbook is for beginners but also offers more advanced techniques to those with some experience in mending. You'll learn basic techniques such as patching, but will have options to take it a step further with decorative sashiko stitching; you'll also learn how to darn socks and mend sweaters, as well as things like a tear in a bedsheet or down jacket. Along the way, Nina and Sonya Montenegro—creators of TheFarWoods— share how the powerful act of mending strengthens not only the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well. Vibrant, full-color illustrations are woven throughout the this timeless and practical guide to cherishing and caring for our belongings.

A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

Mending Life

A Year in the Garden is for note takers, list makers, and gardeners! Combining the popular style and structure of bullet journals with guided, creative prompts, it will help you slow down, track your time and your garden's process, and celebrate plants.

A Guided Journal

A Year in the Garden

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.

A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts (with Basic Stitching, Sashiko, Darn ing, and Patching to Practice Sustainable Fashion and Fix the Clothes You Love)

Gelebte Nachhaltigkeit: Kleidung in einzigartige It-Pieces verwandeln Ein Loch im Pulloverärmel oder ein Riss in der Jeans sind noch lange kein Grund, die Kleidung einfach zu entsorgen! Im Gegenteil: Kunstvoll geflickt oder gestopft verwandeln sie sich in einzigartige Lieblingsstücke. Nina und Sonya Montenegro zeigen, wie einfach das geht. Sie stellen die wichtigsten Grundlagen sowie unterschiedliche Techniken wie Visible Mending oder Sashiko vor. Dabei wird nur mit der Hand gearbeitet, denn ihre Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen für Jeans, Pullover, T-Shirts, Strumpfhosen, Socken und andere Kleidungsstücke lassen sich mühelos ohne Nähmaschine umsetzen. Neben ganz leichten Anleitungen für Anfänger dürfen auch einige kompliziertere Ideen für Fortgeschrittene nicht fehlen. Zusätzliche Tipps zum Hosen kürzen, Knöpfe ersetzen, Taschen aufnähen, Reißverschlüsse reparieren und vielem mehr runden das Handbuch ab. Ein wunderschön illustrierter Ratgeber für alle, die gerne nachhaltiger leben und ihre Kleidungsstücke in außergewöhnliche Unikate verwandeln möchten!

Sonya Montenegro

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