{"id":20943,"date":"2025-07-24T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20943"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:55:23","slug":"daily_3796_bis_-_mending_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/daily_3796_bis_-_mending_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3796 bis – mending day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got tons of mending and alterations done today. A headband, a pair of trousers, an oven mitt, a t-shirt – and a sweater.<\/p>\n

I bought this lovely wool sweater a few years ago. I love the design, and the fit, and the feel of the fabric, and yet I’ve barely worn it.<\/p>\n

First I tried wearing it in early autumn, because of the holey design, but it was too warm. All right, 100% wool, soft and warm, perfect for the cold season, then? Well, possibly for a few days when the temperature is just right, but not when the weather gets colder, because the sweater can’t be combined with anything else. I can’t wear anything underneath because everything shows in the “keyhole” in the middle of the chest. It looks lovely in theory but is so impractical.<\/p>\n

After a few attempts to wear it, the sweater went to the mending and alterations pile. I had vague thoughts of filling in the keyhole somehow, perhaps crocheting something? In a wonderful coincidence, another one of today’s alteration projects was a hiking t-shirt in gray merino wool, with too-narrow sleeves. I cut off its sleeves, leaving me with a sleeveless, hopefully more wearable t-shirt – and two small pieces of thin, gray wool fabric, which matched the sweater almost perfectly in colour. Ta-da! One t-shirt sleeve made a perfect patch for the keyhole. It almost looks like it could have been made this way.<\/p>\n


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I got tons of mending and alterations done today. A headband, a pair of trousers, an oven mitt, a t-shirt – and a sweater. I bought this lovely wool sweater a few years ago. I love the design, and the fit, and the feel of the fabric, and yet I’ve barely worn it. First I […]<\/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-20943","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\/20943","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=20943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20947,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20943\/revisions\/20947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}