I hate this time of year

[Gempress]

No, not spring. It's the time of year when I can't put it off anymore. The dreaded M-word.

Our closet has a row of clothing that have been made unwearable for a variety of reasons: missing buttons, ripped seams, etc. And now it's to the point where those garments are outnumbering the sound ones.

I guess I have to do the m...mmm....me....*struggles to force out hated word*

MENDING. :yikes: :cry:

I HATE mending clothing. With a passion. I don't understand it. I can cross-stitch for hours on end, but give me one shirt with a single missing button, and it makes me want to throw tantrums.

Gah. Sometimes I wish I could just throw away everything with a snagged hem. But I can't bring myself to do it. Especially when I know a bit of effort with a needle and thread will make it workable again. It's like I can hear my mother's disapproving voice in my head, lecturing me. *insert appropriate psychiatric notation*

Anybody else mend their own clothing? Anybody else hate it with a passion?

 

[PoodleMommy]

Mending clothes is very easy.

Take article of clothing, go to nice neighborhood tailor, drop off, pick up in one week. Repeat as needed for other articles of clothing!:lol-sign:

 

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

I mend clothing if it's no longer presentable or wearable but I love it dearly. With my age and being a uni student, most of the time its more fashionable to have authentic rather than bought holes in my clothing :rofl1: However, Justin and I are both former scouts and can use a sewing machine should the need arise.

How did this become mending season anyways I'd think that all the boring free time you have in the winter would be better mending time.

 

[Gempress]

How did this become mending season anyways I'd think that all the boring free time you have in the winter would be better mending time.

Because spring is when I usually run out of work blouses that have all their buttons. :lol-sign:

And I don't mind using a tailor on occasion. I actually have a dress coat of Hubby's that needs alteration before a formal wedding we're attending next month. But I can't bring myself to take a blouse to the tailors for something as tiny as a button. Makes me feel guilty, LOL. I blame my mother.

 

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

Yes, a button is NOT tailor worthy. The only time I've used a tailor was when I needed the dress for my senior prom altered (Needed a J-hook for the train and a bit of strap shortening) I actually like putting buttons back on shirts but I'm a strange one. What really sucks is when you don't have anymore buttons that match!

 

[aliceluo]

nothing special .. not a big deal

 

[bubbatd]

I've got 2 buttons waiting and a skirt than needs re=hemming . I got burned out altering pants at out men's store !

 

[Buddy'sParents]

What is this mending you speak of? :lol-sign:

 

[bubbatd]

Heck , anybody want to borrow my wooden sock mender ??? Now that I haven't use in over 50 years !

 

[Buckshot]

Heck , anybody want to borrow my wooden sock mender ??? Now that I haven't use in over 50 years !

I think you would just use glue or wood filler for wooden socks. That must have been before my time. We were using wool or cotton when I came along.

 

[PoodleMommy]

Yes, a button is NOT tailor worthy.

everything is tailor worthy.

I love my tailor!

I bring everything to him... he is an older guy... and I always say I have no idea what I will do when he retires. He is Italian and takes a month off every summer to go to Italy and visit family, one time I couldnt wait and brought a pair of pants to a different tailor while he was gone it was a disaster... he really needs to just work forever.

 

[Renee750il]

Anybody else mend their own clothing? Anybody else hate it with a passion?

Yes and yes.

I'd rather sit down and construct a whole new garment than mend something.

Now, if I don't have anymore matching buttons, sometimes I'll either suck it up and replace all the buttons with a new set, or, on the right garment, replace random buttons with different odd buttons that have a linking theme so it looks like I did it on purpose.

Thankfully, I don't have many things that take buttons anymore!

 

[puppydog]

Not everyone can afford to run to a tailor for a missing button.
I am very lucky that I suck up to my mother BIG TIME and she mends for me! LOL!
My mother is EXTREEMLY talented with a sewing machine and I just know how lucky I am!

 

[FoxyWench]

buttons i hate...there just so fiddly...lol
otherwise i dont mind it.
as long as i can do it on a sewing machine that is...I HATE hand sewing lol

 

[Gempress]

as long as i can do it on a sewing machine that is...I HATE hand sewing lol

My sewing maching died. All hand-sewing here. *snark snark snark*

 

[Beanie]

I, uh... well...
I always get the sides of my t-shirts ripped up, you know? Where I grab and pull them back down over my hips. So the thread unravels, and then there's usually about a three inch section that's kinda falling apart because it's no longer folded over nicely and stitched together...



And I never fix it.
I'm serious, my closet is full of t-shirts that are ripped and I just... I just don't fix them. I probably could sit down with the sewing machine and repair them pretty easily, but... I mean, it's probably just gonna rip out again anyway......

*shame*


I do normally fix everything else - especially work wear (I'm not THAT sloppy!) I make a pile and finally when I have about four or five things I feel like I can't put it off anymore. I don't have enough closet space to hang my stuff that's falling apart, or I shudder to think what would happen. Out of sight, out of mind for sure... I'd never get to it, LOL.

 

[4dogs3cats]

I think you would just use glue or wood filler for wooden socks. That must have been before my time. We were using wool or cotton when I came along.

LMAO. That lieterally made me lol.

 

[noludoru]

Gemp, make hubby do it.

 

[Giny]

I didn't know there was a time of year for mending.

I just do them as I go, but I don't mend much. I do button, hems, a tear if cloths is worthy of saving, otherwise its turned into rags. lol

 

[Gempress]

Gemp, make hubby do it.

He's tried, LOL. One time he insisted he was going to try mending his torn shorts himself. By hand. In his words, "It looks easy enough." The end result was hilarious. :rofl1: Poor guy. At least he gave it a shot.