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This Santa hat beanie knitting pattern is a great way to subtly add some Christmas cheer to your outfit, and it’s worked on a circular knitting machine so you can finish it in an afternoon! Materials For this hat I used an Addi King circular knitting machine, which has 48 pins. You can also use […]
When I was cutting fabric for a recent project (the patch for the tea towel specifically) I felt like my desk fabric scissors weren’t performing as well as I’d like, so it’s high time to talk about how to clean scissors and take care of them at home. What Cleaning Do Scissors Need? Now I’m […]
Don’t let holes in your T-shirts keep you from wearing them; let’s look at some easy T-shirt mending methods you can do with little to no sewing experience! Why Holes Happen Holes in T-shirts are a super common problem. They can develop for lots of reasons, from regular wear and tear to getting roughed up […]
Many of the mending skills and projects I share are common ones that lots of people have to deal with, but mending holes in a tea towel is probably not one of those. Still, when I was folding laundry the other day and noticed this flour sack style towel had a few holes (not to […]
There are lots of different ways that jeans might need mending, but need to mend jeans with a hole by the pocket is probably something that will come up in your mending career. The fix is similar to other mending jeans projects you might do, but it’s important to take the time to reinforce the […]
Someday I will learn to keep my napkin in my lap when I eat, but in the meantime it’s given me lots of practice for how to remove grease stains from clothing! Materials What you will need to remove a grease stain or an oil stain will depend a bit on how long the stain […]
The headline kind of gives away the whole thing on this one, but let’s talk about how to mend a sock hole with an old T-shirt and why you might want to. Never-Ending Mending I’ve written about these socks before in my post on how to darn a sock, which focused chiefly on sock toes. […]