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just a little bragging invisible mending
marec   Intermediate OR USA Member since 5/11/08 Posts: 3536	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/18/11 2:25 PM My husband tore his new Sherpa down jacket a few days ago. The fabric ripped next to a seam when he was reaching past a sharp part of our dog gate in the truck. Good news/Bad news: We now know there is a sharp place which needs to be covered. AND, he ruined his jacket. This was at the end of a very trying day for him and he just went ballistic. He was really ticked at the dog gate, the jacket fabric, himself...and then me. Aren't relationships fun? I took the jacket into my sewing room and repaired the tear as best I could, then ZZ it with teeny ZZ on the seam, trying to keep the loft the same as the other squares. I put it in the coat closet for him to give away or wear. This morning he got it out in order to donate (he found another online), and said "Where was the tear? I can't find it" Then said later, "I'll just send the other one back. This is as good as new." DH -- Edited on 12/18/11 2:27 PM -- ------ my blog: http://kf-biblioblog.blogspot.com/ Sewing through my pattern stash-125 completed.
petro   Intermediate FRANCE Member since 6/24/07 Posts: 2202	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/18/11 2:33 PM Amazing work then, tears can be really hard to repair invisibly. ------ so many patterns, clamouring to be sewn http://patternpandemonium.wordpress.com/
jannw   Intermediate WA USA Member since 9/3/06 Posts: 7392	Login to reply to this post In reply to marec Like this post Date: 12/18/11 2:46 PM Congratulations!!! Super job! ------ 2009-113.25 yds 2010-115.5 2011-80.25+30+donated 2012 86.3 yds.. 2013 21.0 Everyone who sews seriously has a stockpile of fabrics, because it is natural to purchase more than can be sewn in any one season" Singer, Timesaving Sewing, 1987
a7yrstitch   Intermediate TX USA Member since 4/1/08 Posts: 4375	Login to reply to this post In reply to marec Like this post Date: 12/18/11 3:23 PM Well done! Husbands are funny. I sometimes tell my very special husband that he is so typical that I could write a how to book on husbands of a certain age based on living with him. We've been at it long enough that he finds that amusing. ------ I have no idea what Apple thought I was saying so be a Peach and credit anything bizarre to auto correct.
Miss Fairchild   Advanced USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 6980	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 12/18/11 8:44 PM Great job! And to think he couldn't see it! Oh, he's a keeper! Mine would be spending day and night looking for the tear then complain that I didn't cut the threads off short enough, or used the wrong color thread, or didn't like how the stitches "show", even though it took him hours to find them. ------ "We don't impose our rhythm on Nature. The key is to respect and live within Her." Jean-Charles Boisset, Winemaker "And no, now that you asked, I didn't enjoy that play one bit, and I'd like a refund" Signed, Mrs. Lincoln My Etsy shop: auntmaymesattic My blog: auntmaymesattic.wordpress.com Avatar: First place award for jacket at county fair
Franksdottir   Intermediate Member since 4/25/08 Posts: 2398	Login to reply to this post In reply to marec Like this post Date: 12/18/11 9:41 PM Hooray!! And yes, as shown in this case, relationships can be fun. ------ Barb

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