A good chunk of April has been spent working on mending a blanket for a lady whose dog had used it as chew toy so it had a big hole in it. It turned out to be quite the challenge!
Here’s the blanket before I started working on it. Not only did it have a large hole but also two long-ish rips radiating from the hole. It took me a little while to decide exactly how to go about it.
Here is the finished mend. It took a bit more time to finish than I had expected. A couple of times I had to rip out several hours’ work because the colours looked wrong. Of course I was swearing over it at the time but I also knew it had to be done. Just grit your teeth and get on with it! :-)
I’m really happy with how it turned out. A bit surprised even. It’s fairly seamless, even considering that the mend doesn’t follow the zigzag pattern of the blanket (it would have been too time consuming, i.e. expensive, to do that).
It was a fun challenge and I learned a lot about how best to go about this sort of thing! Not least that I should have charged more! :-D But I knew this was going to be one of those ‘learn while you’re doing it’ projects so it’s fine.
I enjoyed working on it and I’ll definitely take on more mending projects in the future. For now I’m glad to clear my work table so I can get on with other projects. Like a giant quilt that I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to wrangle through my sewing machine! :-D
I hope you have a lovely weekend! x Carina
Things I’m Enjoying
Reading: Dare to Sketch: A Guide to Drawing on the Go* by Felix Scheinberger.
Music: Stoned at The Nail Salon by Lorde. Just can’t get it out of my head.
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Eating: We’d bought too many tomatoes; well, it’s not too many when they got used, I guess! I peeled and chopped up a bunch of them and cooked in olive oil with a handful of whole garlic cloves (removed before eating!) and served with some ravioli I had in the freezer. Simple and so good. Tomatoes and garlic are a match made in heaven. :-)
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