Mendspiration

This so-called madwoman in Victorian England visibly mended her news. We hear you, Lorina...

Let's do #MendMarch on Instagram! Here are all the prompts --do one, do 31, it's all good. Just one rule: make it Visible...

The journal for fashion criticism explains --brilliantly! -- what lies behind our need to sew scars on old clothes...

Meditating can be hard, but sewing with total attention is almost the same, and it shrinks the mending pile too...

My mother died so recently that I still can't take it in, and this domestic vignette is bittersweet. Thank god she taught me that stitchery smile... 

Populism spreads like headlice in a kindergarten as we dread the first orange POTUS, and all I want to do is sew up holes in clothes...

We can't afford a FOUR FIGURE reupholstery bill. Damn those cats... 

For winter days and chilly springs, behold: Swants, by Westknits, for the braver, better man...

To celebrate the opening of the Imperial War Museum's  Fashion on the Ration exhibition about how WWII scarcities affected everyday style...

We’re not in Etsy any more... The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by the woman known as The Mother of Forensic Investigation are...