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| A Rose Bud |
We had rain again, on Wednesday morning. A light rain, but, rain, nonetheless! The garden plants were happy. The rain had ceased by the time M showed up to tend the garden. He brought me a cutting from his plumeria plant and planted it for me. He didn't need to water the garden, but, he did some tidying up.
I mended another sweater. It's a cardigan I had knitted in 2002 or maybe 2003. The yarn was a blend of wool and acrylic and the color was called purple heather, I believe. Two of the buttons fell out and I sewed them back on and I mended a small tear on one of the front sides. I had to use the burgundy colored yarn because I didn't have any of the original yarn left and I decided to disguise the mending by turning it into an embroidered flower bud. I think it looks more intentional this way:
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| Mending Disguised as Embroidery |
For those who might want to know, there is only this one rose bud on the right front half; there is no matching rose bud on the other side. Although, there's no saying what might happen if I get another tear on this sweater! Next up is a shawl I knitted
The day was fairly cool on Wednesday, with an afternoon high of 51F (10.5 C) and it remained cloudy and overcast all day. It started to rain again at night and the forecast calls for rain all day on Thursday.
I spoke with my sister in the morning and chatted with friend R in the evening. I caught up on my blog reading, tidied the family room just a little bit, and generally took it easy. Not a very productive day, but, that's okay.
Breakfast was tortillas with seeni sambol. I had a Jamaican hand pie for my lunch and daughter had leftover rice and stir fry. Dinner was cucumber salad and leftover pot roast with frozen green peas added to it. We had grapes for dessert. I will have to do some cooking, on Thursday.
On Wednesday, I was grateful for:
- The rain we received
- M's help with the garden and the plumeria cutting he brought me
- A working heater
- Phone calls with my sister and friend R
- Being able to mend my sweaters and cardigans, etc.
- M's help with the garden and the plumeria cutting he brought me
- A working heater
- Phone calls with my sister and friend R
- Being able to mend my sweaters and cardigans, etc.
Wednesday's joyful activity was picking more oranges from the tree.
Plans for Thursday include tidying the kitchen and cooking.
How was your Wednesday? What are your plans for Thursday? I hope everyone is safe from the winter storms that have been in the news today.
I love the Rose Bud. You're becoming quite the expert on visible mending, Bless
ReplyDeleteThank you, Angela. I am thriving in my mending! :D
DeleteWhat a beautiful sweater you originally made & that fix is brilliant. We'll be digging out of the snow today!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary-Lou. That sweater is a favorite!
DeleteOh, I heard that there was a snow storm headed your way! I hope that you, Mr. Man, and the kitties are keeping well and staying warm.
I think the rose bud really adds to the sweater. It is a beautiful sweater...and you are a good knitter! 51 degrees does seem to be a big dip for you! andrea
ReplyDeleteThank you, Andrea. I'm "freezing" right now! :D
DeleteYou have mended other things with new embroidery, and they always look great. You could have a side hustle by buying clothes from a thrift store, embellishing they with some embroidery, then selling them on Etsy. You and your daughter could have a shop together.
ReplyDeleteThank you, June. Now that's an idea - to make over clothes and resell! In fact, daughter has been thinking about starting an Etsy shop to sell her bead jewelry that she has been making. :)
DeleteI like the rosebud as a repair. Clever!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne. :)
DeleteSo beautiful.
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Thank you, Regine. :)
DeleteYour rose embroidery is lovely. An excellent way to cover a repair!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Celie. Mending doesn't have to look like mending, does it?
DeleteThat is a lovely darn. You have created a designer cardigan!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. :)
DeleteIt looks lovely, and I am glad the flower is only on one side, like a permanent buttonhole!
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother used to unravel jumpers when they were either getting shabby or too small or no longer worn, and knit something new. It was a different age, when funds were often tight, and nothing was wasted. Dad tells me that the wool shop would also keep all the skeins required for a certain pattern in a box with the customer's name on, and the customer could buy each skein one at a time. People couldn't necessarily afford to pay for all the wool in one go, and this system meant that they could be sure of being able to finish the project with a single dye lot, and not run the risk of the yarn getting sold out.
Ella
Thank you, Lady Ella.
DeleteMy step-father's sisters who lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1970s used to unravel their children's jumpers and sweaters as the kids outgrew them, wash and rewind the yarn and reuse it with extra yarn added as needed to make the garment bigger. The new yarn could be a different color, added as stripes or worked into the design.
My mother used to sew my dresses with extra fabric in the seams and wide hems so that they could be let out as needed. Or, she would remake the dress with different fabric. She used to do that with my daughter's dresses, too. I still have a couple of dresses that she altered for my daughter. :)
I love that the wool shop would keep the rest of the skeins needed to complete a project in a box for the customers to buy later! Obviously one would have to know the customers very well, but, I suppose, back then, everyone would know one another well, especially in smaller towns and villages.
I love that jumper. How pretty! As I write this the reply to the post above mentions unravelling jumpers as the children outgrew them. My Mum did that! It must have been a 70s thing! She used to have a tin of buttons and zippers where she had taken them off the jumpers too. It's funny how things are so disposable now.
ReplyDeleteI think people thought it was worth their time and effort to reuse the yarn and buttons and zippers, etc. and save on costs. These days, we think that our time and energy are more valuable.
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