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Mending with Kids

Patching, Painting, Sewing and Other Kid-Friendly Techniques

Nami Levy

Description

Mending with Kids shows you how to take torn, stained and outgrown kids' clothes and make them better than before using a variety of simple techniques that you can actually do with your kids. This book is filled with helpful tips and techniques for patching, collage (with felt and fabrics), iron-ons, stenciling, darning, embroidery, hand-painting and much more!

Best of all, most of these techniques are easy enough for kids to join in and put their personal stamp on their clothes – which they absolutely love doing! And with your supervision, they'll pick up practical skills along the way.

You'll find practical ideas and advice on clothes-savers like:

Using added bands of fabric to cover, patch and lengthen jeans and trousers
Combining patching with embroidery to make a repair into a design element
Embroidering around holes to make them look like part of the original design (make a worm hole in an embroidered apple, for instance!)
Turning an iron-on patch into a canvas for your kid's artistry – just grab some permanent markers and have fun
Covering stains with a creative use of paint (use the stencil patterns in this book, or use ready-made stencils to add favourite animals, cars, flowers and more)
And many other ideas that turn clothing repair into a shared adventure!