Overview
Eliminate trips to the tailor and repair discarded favorites
Easy, well-illustrated steps demonstrate how to mend valuable garments in the comfort of one’s home. Chapters include basics from threading a needle and sewing on buttons to repairing seams and ironing techniques, and the accessible language allows anyone to fix their tears and reintroduce damaged clothes back into a wardrobe. Illustrating that mending is an easy skill that anyone—even someone without a sewing machine—can do, this reference is an essential resource for any household.
Author Biography
Nan L. Ides comes from family of sewers and teaches hand mending for several community groups in the Philadelphia area. She lives in Philadelphia.