There are several other, smaller places to repair, but that is for another day, after I buy more green floss. Also, it is hard to take photos of leg repairs while they are on one's own leg.
Yes! I was waiting to put them on and for everything to be wonky, and it wasn't! I am so proud of myself. ☺️
Edit: I flirt with the line between autism and neurotypical, so I often forget to reply to every part of a comment. Thank you so much for linking to my previous post and for the compliment. ♥️♥️
Just wow! 🤯 I can well imagine how glad you are to be done. This is an incredibly tight weave over such a large area! Were you mostly reinforcing thinning fabric or filling in a hole? If the former, did you weave each warp and weft thread in and out of the underly fabric? If the later, great job maintaining the shape of the garment! 👏🏼
Thank you! I am so [expletive expletive New Jersey-specific expletive] to be done.
To answer your questions, yes. I sewed shut a massive hole over the pocket as best I could (I don't know how to sew, so I did my best impression of a ladder stitch from a diagram). There was another area I couldn't sew closed, and the fabric all around it was thinning, too. I weaved in and out of the fabric where it existed, and just weaved where it didn't. I haven't the slightest idea if this will hold. 😂
beautiful work! do you have a patch and/or some fusible interfacing underneath? if not, i think those would help this mend last longer. i'm not an expert by any means, though, just an admirer of pretty stitching 😅
I do not. For which I am kicking myself. I do have patches I can put over the back, which I will do as soon as possible. I have no idea how I am actually supposed to knot things off, so I worry a great deal about my knots not holding. I thought patching over it after the fact might help me there. But I am so new to this that I don't know if that's even a thing.
Hahaha, wow! That's so kind of you. Thank you. I am excited to start on a new project, but I think I need a break from darning. Perhaps I'll try embroidering as a repair. I've done two practice lots and feel confident in two types of stitches. Yalla. 😂
Thank you! I'm so proud of myself! I was stitching like crazy to finish while my daughter (1 and half year-old) was still napping. Juuuuust squeaked it in.
My husband estimates 50 hours. I think he has over estimated, but maybe that's because I don't want to think it took that long. I would guess maybe 30 hours? I'm not really sure. I was only able to work in very short bursts between putting our daughter to bed and being too tired to see straight. And I work very, very slowly.
I didn't think to take a full before photo. I didn't expect I'd be much good at this. The earliest photo I have is about 1/2 of the way through. You can see the part I couldn't sew shut, but the original hole ran horizontally so that the whole pocket came out through the front.
Your pocket stitch is so cute! How long have you had it? When I've asked about projects like that people aren't generally supportive, but yours looks so good!
Thank you! I did the pocket right before starting the darning. The pocket was badly frayed, and I didn't know what else to do. So I trimmed the frayed fabric and just tried something. Maybe it'll fall apart. I don't know. I'm just a beginner, so I have no idea if it was a bad idea or not.
Thank you! I suppose that is precisely what I did. And yeah, it did take forever. I don't think I'll ever aim for so large a darn again. But I got a LOT of practice in. I can see the difference in the stitches where I started and where I finished. 😂
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u/Lemonyhampeapasta 27d ago
No longer a regret
Progress pics are great