Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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A place to share ideas, knowledge and creations with textiles. The focus is on reducing waste, whether that be sewing from the scraps left from other projects, using the end of rolls and remnants, or repairing and remaking finished pieces.

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Couldn't find a matching button to fix my coat with, so I painted my girls face on a wooden button (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by python@lemmy.world to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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I mean, if I'm not gonna have a good match anyway might as well embrace the fact it doesn't match lol

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[–] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to figure out what kind of backpack you are wearing, thinking to myself, "why are the straps so uneven?"

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 19 points 5 months ago

Took me this comment to realize what was going on with the backpack. Neat.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

"Maybe they're Jar-Jar Binks ears as part of a novelty hat? That seems like the sort of thing someone might have"

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Ohhhh now I get it. I had the same problem.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

"Oooh, that's who 'my girl' is."