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The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
I found some red thread in my sewing box. And then I set up my sewing machine. So, I sewed a scrap piece of denim on the inside, using yellow thread to hide my stitching. Then I used blue thread to hand sew around the hole, to keep the hole from getting any bigger. Chiquita was interested in the spare bobbin. She got it.
The Frugal Girl
MARCH 5, 2024
I used yellow thread and sewed over the existing yellow stitching…so the patch is securely in place, but my stitching is basically invisible. I still need to sew down those frayed parts a bit, and secure the belt loop better, and then I’ll be done with this fix. a pretty leaf! a mushroom!) and I get snagged on thorns.
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The Frugal Girl
MARCH 6, 2024
Kristen, I have a sewing question. I was planning to cut a patch from a ripped pair of no longer worn jeans and then hand sew it from the inside out. I don’t know how to use a sewing machine so hand sewing it is. Hospital time is where I’m going to seriously gain skills. I want to repair a pair of jeans.
The Frugal Girl
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Luckily, I had a little bit of white cotton yarn in my drawer, and I found a big needle in the sewing box I had grabbed from the abandoned house. So, I was able to sew it up, and while my fix is not beautiful, it IS functional, and that is what matters when it comes to dishcloths. I had to use my reading glasses to thread the needle.
The Frugal Girl
OCTOBER 3, 2023
You could sew the sock shut (and maybe one day I will), but the advantage of a rubber band closure is that you can just pop off the outer sock and wash it when it gets dirty. So, I got out my sewing machine and did a quick repair for her. I added a little fresh catnip inside and then sewed the mouse up.
The Frugal Girl
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
She didn’t really care about the belt, so we decided to just carefully cut it off with a pair of sharp sewing scissors. Obviously the “right” way to do this would have been to pick apart the side seam, removed the belt ends, and then re-sew the side seams.
The Frugal Girl
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
So I took a needle and thread and just hand-sewed both of the ends closed. I fixed a shirt This shirt has some underwire shaping built in, and you know how sometimes the underwire on bras pokes through? That happened on the shirt! This fabric texture, plus the print, made it very easy to make my fix invisible.
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