{"id":11957,"date":"2019-10-21T22:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11957"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:35:32","slug":"daily_1753_-_coat_mended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/daily_1753_-_coat_mended\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1753 &#8211; coat, mended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1753_mending.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI ripped my spring\/autumn coat some months ago. A fold of fabric literally got caught on the end of a door handle and I kept walking and tore a great big L-shaped hole in it. (This fabric looks pretty and feels nice but is way too flimsy for a coat; it&#8217;s already wearing thin around the edges of the buttons as well.)<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve finally mended that rip and I&#8217;m quite pleased with the result. The two arms of the L were easy but I couldn&#8217;t come up with a good solution for the corner. In the end I just sort of fudged it, which is luckily not too noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>I learned this stitch from a book. They called it the paratrooper&#8217;s stitch, recommended it for field repairs of tents and such and demonstrated it on heavy duty canvas. I think it worked pretty nicely for this case as well.<\/p>\n<p>There are books about mending things. I own three.<\/p>\n<p>At what point does something I like doing become a hobby? When I start buying books about it, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ripped my spring\/autumn coat some months ago. A fold of fabric literally got caught on the end of a door handle and I kept walking and tore a great big L-shaped hole in it. (This fabric looks pretty and feels nice but is way too flimsy for a coat; it&#8217;s already wearing thin around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,787,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-mending","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}