{"product_id":"9781800656406","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Visible Mending : With Over 20 Easy Projects: Bring New Life to Old Clothes with Darning, Applique, Sashiko-Style Stitching, and More - Shelley Zetuni","description":"BRING NEW LIFE to old clothes or charity-shop finds and create your SUSTAINABLE WARDROBE. Learn techniques such as DARNING, EMBROIDERY, NEEDLE-FELTING, APPLIQU� and BINDING. Repairing your old clothes is a brilliant way of adding personality to your wardrobe, is good for the environment and saves money. Perfect for complete beginners, this handbook introduces a variety of mending techniques and shows you how to make unique projects with your new skills.�First, there is a guide to all the tools you'll need, from hand-sewing needles to darning discs and mushrooms. Then, explore different methods of mending, with detailed step-by-step guides, followed by easy projects to put your skills into practice.�Learn how to create vibrant patterns with darning, strengthen and embellish with sashiko-style stitching, cover stains with needle-felting and handmade patches, and much more.�Throughout, you'll find advice on choosing colours, threads and materials, and how to incorporate a visible mend into the existing style of a garment or use it to give the item a complete refresh. The 20 beautiful projects include adding needle-felted embellishments to a scarf, repairing a denim jacket with sashiko, patching a hole in fine silk fabric and adding colourful darning to a jumper.","brand":"Shelley Zetuni","offers":[{"title":"128 pages, 150 col photographs \u0026 artworks \/ 15\/09\/2026 \/ Needlework \u0026 fabric crafts","offer_id":57415964131703,"sku":"9781800656406","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781800656406.jpg?v=1787910697","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781800656406","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}