My first mend!
I’ve been a lurker on here for a while, and as a non-crafty person, I‘m excited to finally have something to contribute.
Last week I ordered a cheap mesh makeup bag, because I liked the design, and when it came, I failed to notice a small tear in the mesh before I ripped the tag off. I decided it wasn’t worth returning it and sending it to the landfill, and I could just try mending it instead.
The first thing I did was to plop a dollop of glue over the damaged area to prevent the tear from spreading, and wait for it to dry. My first thought was to just sew a red rectangle over it so it wasn’t bumpy and scratchy, but then I decided a red heart would look so much better.
The problem was that my sewing skills are minimal, and I cannot draw a symmetrical heart for the life of me, so my first attempts at freestyling were quick, but shit.
I had to regroup. I took a high res picture and played around with drawing the heart over it, using the mesh as a grid. This worked out perfectly on paper, but it was still a pain to translate without the help of real life zoom. It’s still not symmetrical, smh.
I messed up many, many times and had to redo a stitch or even start over a bunch of times (luckily mesh is a very forgiving medium). I kept putting off finishing because I couldn’t stand to look at it any longer, and just the thought of having to thread another needle was giving me a headache, but today I finally finished, and I’m so enamored with the end result, I think I like it even better than the original. But mostly I’m proud that I didn’t give up.