One of the things Instagram has cursed me to think about more is darning. For some reason the algorithm knows I have some jeans that need mending, and a longing to do a better job on holes in my handknit socks.
Well, I have so far resisted getting help on the socks, but the darning thing sent me searching online where I found a magnificent Canadian shop and bought these beautiful threads. They even came wrapped in this beautiful dragonfly tissue paper!
The shop is A Threaded Needle - you might know it, in which case, why didn't you tell me about it! - and I spent a very pleasant non-doom-scrolling time browsing all the exciting materials and tools there before restricting myself to thread (some silk, some cotton) and needles.
The ones pictured above are specifically for stitching through jeans. These ones have minute ridges to help the needle pass through fabric. They came in a tub with a tiny cork and I think you'd have to zoom in on this pic even to see them, sorry about that...
I am super excited to try them all.
So: how did my eye/screen judgment match up with the fabric I'm trying to mend? Let's have a look.
The thread on the left is too heavy a weight for this cotton/linen denim, and the colour on the right is too dark, but that little strip at the top of the four-colour set is perfect.
Now for the darker jeans.
Am I good or what? The colour set here is a washout, and the variegated blue is too dark, but the solid blue could not be a better match.
And now I have so many great colours I can use for embroidery, which is another thing Instagram keeps prodding me to pick up again and maybe do better with this time.
Let's hope I have greater resistance to the algorithm's attempts to lure me into dog rescues and fostering because I have zero dog experience and a pretty small house.
Hope you have a great weekend lined up. We have sun at the moment, and I'm going to bid you farewell till next Saturday so I can go spend some time in it. Thanks for dropping in and I'll see you soon!
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