{"id":777,"date":"2020-11-23T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=777"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:12:36","slug":"treading-lightly-mending-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/11\/23\/treading-lightly-mending-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Treading Lightly: Mending Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"socks<\/a>A while back I posted about mending<\/a>\u2014darning socks, mostly. I’ve kept at it. I sprang for a darning disk (I recommend it), and I’ve now mended all of my favorite socks that had thin spots, with the round technique I talked about in the comments of my previous post. I call them my mendalas. I think I love these socks even more now.<\/p>\n

I also decorated a patch with a Sashiko<\/a>-style scene, although true Sashiko is all done in white thread. \"patch\"<\/a>I like color, so I did my own thing with it. This patch is on the inseam of a pair of pants, so this is probably the only way you’ll ever see it.<\/p>\n

Less decorative but more practical, I’ve mended my sheepskin slippers, I think for the third time. I wear them around the house all winter, and the seam around the sole tends to blow out. This time I used the heavier cotton embroidery thread that I’ve been darning with. We’ll see if they hold up better.<\/p>\n

\"slippers\"<\/a>I intend to keep mending these slippers until they fall apart completely, as I don’t want to buy more sheepskin. It’s luxurious, but since I’m doing my best to tread lightly, I don’t want to use animal skin products if I can avoid it.<\/p>\n

I’ve got heavy cotton and cotton batting and big ideas about making my own slippers that are washable. I just had a commercial pair fall apart in the dryer, and since they weren’t that comfortable anyway, and had plastic soles, I tossed them. It’s only worth mending clothes that one loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back I posted about mending\u2014darning socks, mostly. I’ve kept at it. I sprang for a darning disk (I recommend it), and I’ve now mended all of my favorite socks that had thin spots, with the round technique I talked about in the comments of my previous post. I call them my mendalas. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[118,93,51],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-nonfiction","tag-conservation","tag-plastic-free-living","tag-treading-lightly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}