4.6.10

Mending Week: Your Turn

Good Morning!

I'm happy to say that all of my mending is completed! All of it! I'm surprised myself.

Here's the roller shade in my girls room. A few years ago they were fooling around with it and rippied it. Since it was way to long anyways, I just cut it off and it was still very useable. But it didn't have that bar along the bottom anymore. Besides looking really ugly, it would often flip around the top when I was rolling it up because it didn't have anything to stop it.



That is no longer a problem. With the help of my husband, who had to hold it as I sewed, I sewed a casing onto the bottom of the blind. Then I inserted a 3/4 inch piece of wood trim. Lastly I glued on some ric rac to cover up the ugly seam. It was actually pretty tough to sew the casing onto the vinyl blind and I considered giving up. My husband convince me to keep going, telling me that once the wood was inside the casing it wouldn't look as bad. And he was right. It looks okay now. It works way better too.




Now on to you. Have you been participating in Mending Week? It's not too late to join in. Just work on your mending today and tomorrow yet.

At the bottom of this post you will find a Mister Linky. If you've blogged about your mending or posted it in on a flickr page please link up at the bottom. You will be in the running for two great prizes!

First prize will be for a three-pattern package from Leila & Ben! The patterns are for crochet and sewing, designed by two moms (from Alberta, Canada.) The patterns are modern and simple. See?





They also offer a free pattern for a vest on their site which I would love to make for Zachary this coming fall. Adorable.

Our second prize is a charm pack from Above All Fabric. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to deal with Melanie at Above All Fabric. She goes above and beyond and answers email questions fast. Her online shop is great and she leans heavily toward the apparel end of sewing (rather than quilting) which I think is fun and refreshing. She has a ton of stuff on sale right now, but it ends very soon so get it now.

A charm pack is a great prize for Mending Week. Think patches. Fun! What would you pick?





We will be leaving the Mister Linky up until Monday evening. Simply link up to any post or flickr photo that tells what kind of Mending you've been doing this week.

Thanks for joining us!

13 comments:

  1. Love the shade! It looks awesome! I just finished converting a couple of long-sleeve shirts to short-sleeve for the summer and blogged about it. Thanks so much for the motivation!

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  2. I would never have thought to repair a broken shade. thanks for the idea! we have a couple around here the kids have broken.

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  3. Congrats on finishing all your mending. I sincerely doubt I'll finish all mine.:) I like the repair to the shade. It turned out really cute!

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  4. Thanks for all of the great mending ideas! I was inspired by the many refashion projects that were born from the mending pile and decided to try my own. Thanks for making mending fun!

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  5. Congrats on finishing your mending! I'm happy to have made a dent in mine. Thanks for hosting Mending Week. I've put up 3 posts with 5 projects and a little tutorial on my blog.

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  6. Thanks for Mending week:) It made me fix something that is now suitable to give away! Yay for mending!

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  7. Love the shade Alisa!
    I also finished my mending... thanks for the motivation with 'mending week'. I was going to sew some curtains but decided my mending pile had to be done first. The mending pile was taking up a lot of room on my sewing cabinet so I really didn't have much of a choice. I completed most of it today while your sweet little boy was napping. Karen K

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  8. I know I've already commented but just wanted to tell you how much I have been enjoying seeing everyone else's creative mending projects. It inspired me to tackle a big pile of my husband's shirts (which I can't fix) by turning them into something new. Thanks again for a great week!

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  9. I'm not quite done, but better off than I was last week!

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  10. There! I didn't even think I had any mending to do. But then I realized... everyone probably has something to mend. And my pant hems were doing pretty bad. Glad to have that out of the way! Thanks for hosting a mending week!

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  11. Thanks for the inspiration. I have tons of things I've been meaning to mend for a long time. Mending week was just what I needed to get me moving. I didn't get to everything, but I"m going to try to keep my momentum going and get them done next week!

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  12. Thanks so much girls! It was just the kick I needed to finally get my mend it pile done! I've just got a couple of pairs of pants to put new elastic in but I forgot it the other day at the store! Thanks again!!

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  13. Thanks for your inspiration to get going on my mending. Mine is only a small start, but I've got my needle into a pair of shorts as well that only need a button put back on! Why is it that such small jobs take so long to get done?

    Keep up with your blog - I'm enjoying it! Oh ya, and great job on the blind!

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