Make Do, Mend & Minimise in 2025 (and 2024)

mrs_motivated

Count me in this year too please.  Like most I am trying to live a more sustainable life, reduce plastic use etc.

I love cooking, growing my own and hate waste, although I’m useless at sewing, kitting or anything like that….can just about manage to sew a button but willing to learn.

wishus

Yep, here for this!

YorksLass

Hello to Betharooni (with the would-be 5-bedroom mansion); Florafauna (a fellow knitter/sewer and would-be retiree); mrs_motivated (cook and gardener) and wishus.  Here's to a successful 2024.

ChihiroSen

I am planning a no buy year.  That is no buying stuff. Essentials will be bought but only when I have run out completely. So lots of make do and mend ahead for me.

suzeesu2000

Katiehound said:

Watty1 said:

   I've very little in the way of skill base for the make do and mend but hopefully I can learn

remember here that YouTube is a mega friend!
So many helpful videos to show you how to make/ repair/ sew/ knit/ cook etc. You name it and I bet there is a video to show you how (at least one ...... probably loads!)

Oh my word, so true. I had forgotten how to crochet which I enjoy more than knitting. Watched YouTube vids and am now the very proud owner of a beautiful crocheted blanket - really warm and cosy and looks pretty too, used yarn from my stash. Also crocheted a thick waistcoat which I am wearing to death, again from the stash. 

I have got my sewing machine working again, from watching YouTube vids and plan on using it more this year to reduce my stash, not easy when 2 lovely people bought me fabrics for Christmas which was incredibly generous of them. I have enough on hand to make whatever I need so no buying!! 

Definitely joining please, be fun to see what can be done without buying anything new. 

Happy New Year too, let’s hope for a good one.

YorksLass

Hello @ChihiroSen (I think you'll find the "no buying" comes with surprising results) and @suzeesu2000 (I love sewing and knitting but have never mastered crochet).

suzeesu2000

YorksLass said:

Hello @ChihiroSen (I think you'll find the "no buying" comes with surprising results) and @suzeesu2000 (I love sewing and knitting but have never mastered crochet).

If you can, watch some YouTube videos on crochet. Watching is easier than reading and you can progress at your own pace

Florafauna

Thanks for the welcome, I set up my new sewing machine today and mended a pair of work trousers. I am gifting my old machine to a local girl who loves making but currently does not have a machine. It's in good condition but I'm getting it serviced as I don't want her to have any problems with it 

nannygladys

I joined this thread a couple of years ago (I think) and it made me more aware of how things were made, anyway this year i want to buy clothes from a CS or secondhand, so they would be the mending bit and make do whilst minimising the cost. I am able to alter and mend some bits but it is quite a new area for me. I also want to make more use of free food, so I'll be looking at that as well. I'd love to forage but know practically nothing about it, so YouTube will come in handy in my endeavours, and like most people would love to minimise my cost of gas & electricity!! 

flamingo747

@Florafauna how much does it cost to get them serviced? I have a 1974 singer that could probably do with it, but I haven't looked into it