Lily Fulop is the author of Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes, and runs the Instagram account @mindful_mending, where she shares sustainable fashion inspiration ...

One dusty family photo album in my attic holds black-and-white snapshots of my mother and grandmother darning their socks in the early 1950s. “We used burnt-out light bulbs to hold them while we ...

Like other DIY hobbies, including gardening and baking bread, the pandemic has turned mending clothes into an essential skill — and something cool people are doing and posting about on social media.

Rosario Calatayud-Serna uses a pattern template to learn new stitches during the Radical Sewing Club in Huntington Park. For the record: 12:07 p.m. Aug. 9, 2024: An earlier photo caption stated ...

Favorite shirt got a hole in it? Dress hem coming undone? Broken zipper on your jeans? Organizers of Spokane's first pop-up Mend-It Cafe invite people to "sew it, don't throw it" by bringing clothing ...

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A zipper breaks. A seam rips. A snagged loop of yarn unravels into a gaping hole. Suddenly, you have a pile of frayed fabric where your favorite jeans used to be — and a choice. Buy another pair of ...