A little mending
I actually did do some mending for the Make Do & Mend HSF challenge: there has just been so much else to post that I haven’t gotten around to writing about it! First, a little 10 minute mend. One of the bones in my 1770s silver gilt stays was the tiniest bit too long, and had worn a hole in the kid leather binding: I unpicked that section of the binding, slipped it off the tab, pulled out the bone, cut it shorter, and smoothed it off: Then I pushed the bone back in, and used a tiny piece of leftover kid to patch the area with the hole: All that was left to do was to slip the original binding back on, and re-sew it down: The Challenge: #1: Make Do & Mend Fabric: a tiny scrap of kid leather Pattern: My own, based on one in Jill Salens ‘Corsets’ book. Year: ca. 1770 Notions: Just thread for the mending. How historically accurate is it? Period stays were certainly mended, but my binding technique …