Make Do and Mend

moggins

I just wanted to recommend a product to everyone as this morning it has saved me from consigning one of DS's school shirts to the bin and 6 months ago saved DH's suede jacket which he was going to bin as the dry cleaner had quoted £30 to repair.

It's from Betterware and it's called Supermend Fabric Bond. It's a powder that you sprinkle over the tear, put a patch of similar fabric on top and then iron between two sheets of greaseproof paper. DS's shirt was torn in such a way that even I couldn't have repaired it with a needle and thread but after cutting a patch off a shirt he's grown out of (and also cutting off all the buttons as he's forever losing the ones off his cuffs) I now have a perfectly good shirt again.

Rachel021967

Thanks Moggins I'll give it a go on my daughter's school jumpers. She goes to Secondary school in September and I'm loathed to buy new uniform unless I really have to.

Becles

You can buy repair fabric on the haberdashery stand in supermarkets. It's shiny on one side and goes sticky with heat. You turn the item inside out, cut a piece to cover the tear, place it shiny side down, and hold the iron on it for a couple of minutes.

When you have two boys who play football every break time, it's invaluable for mending school trousers!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi.. thanks for reminding me moogins:T

i have really got into the routine of not throwing anything out...its like a thrift shop in our house...lol..

trs that the kids have grown out of or torn.... i have cut up for playing shorts.....and the bits that i have cut off are used for rags.....

i have an old book called make do and mend.....apart from the brilliant tips etc.... its a good read.... and it makes you realise how much waste that we throw out... just because we dont repair... and ment things......

natzini

Ooh, that sounds fab!

OH has larger than normal feet so he only really gets new socks at Christmas or birthdays... I have become such a good darner snce we moved in together!

culpepper

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

hi.. thanks for reminding me moogins:T

i have an old book called make do and mend.....apart from the brilliant tips etc.... its a good read.... and it makes you realise how much waste that we throw out... just because we dont repair... and ment things......

Who is the book by CTC? I love books like that.I've got one called Mend it by Margery(or it might be maureen) Goldsworthy which is all about mending clothes as invisibly as possible.

amazon_spice

Sounds really good.

redballoon_2

what fabrics can it mend?

moggins

Pretty much everything. I even used it to mend DH's suede jacket last year. He had torn an L shaped hole in the arm and the dry cleaners wanted an arm and a leg to mend it. I had an imitation suede mini skirt which I cut up to provide the patch and then roughed up the suede with a soft wire brush when I had finished ironing it.

janb5

natzini wrote:

Ooh, that sounds fab!

OH has larger than normal feet so he only really gets new socks at Christmas or birthdays... I have become such a good darner snce we moved in together!

Have a look at socks at Primark- only £5 for a pack of 5 . It should say in all marriage contracts that darning is not included!