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 3 weeks 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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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

Neat! I'm glad to have found this community. My grandmother and my mother taught sewing for free for the entirety of my childhood. My grandmother to girls (I was the only interested boy) of the neighborhood, and my mom to under-privileged women. The machines were free to use at my mother's location and my grandmother had four in a room that the kids could use any time as well.

It's been very sad for me to see the decline of sewing over the years and the existence of this community makes me smile.