Back to earth

I was hoping that, by now, we’d have sight of some of the posh photos of Edward and Amy’s wedding, but I’m having to summon up patience for a little longer. Nothing like a bit of mending to exercise that, especially when I had a large hole in a T shirt and a new gadget to play with.

I’ve been eying all those “visible mending” images of late, on Pinterest and my Instagram feed, but attempts to create anything vaguely attractive have failed miserably. But a couple of weeks ago I came across the Speedweve, “Lancashire’s Smallest Loom” and not being in the market for an online auction, I was glad to find reproductions on sale at Tribe Yarns. All I needed now was a hole to darn.

It wasn’t long coming. How irritating is it to wear a T shirt and jeans, only to find the button creates a hole in the T shirt because it’s at exactly the same height as the granite kitchen worktop?

I had a false start, though, beginning with the full six strands of embroidery thread before realising that it would work much better with just three. So I halved all of those threads and started again.

I followed the instructions pretty faithfully, making a mental note to leave longer ends next time (there are a lot of ends to finish off) and also thinking that it was a very loose weave. Hmm.

I soon covered the hole and felt quite pleased with the ease and the speed of completion - that was before I began to finish all the ends off!

I was quite pleased with the end result when I had though, especially as, once off the loom, the weave tightened up somewhat.

Maybe a bit of practice needed before going public with my visible mending and possibly a darn in a less prominent place would be more wearable, but hey, it’s better than a hole, isn’t it?