Embroidery: Clothing Repair

Overview

“In this lesson I will teach you how to incorporate patches behind a torn fabric. I will show you how to use in our favor the organic forms that stains or breaks in fabrics give us. I will begin by selecting a patch among my samples that contrast with the color of my garment, so that the hole has a leading role. We will do the same preparation as we did before and then incorporate the patch with some embroidery in relief. It will be a composition with several stitches (flat and raised) that will serve to fix the entire area of the patch.”

In this video lesson Ofelia & Antelmo addresses the topic: Internal Patches, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery: Clothing Repair. Learn the Visible Mending technique and revive your garments using original embroidery pieces and patches that express your style.

Partial transcription of the video

“Internal patches Hello! In this lesson we'll work on the patch we started earlier. I'll show you how I fix internal patches and which is the first step I take. I started earlier, I've already set up my hoop, I used my safety pins and my needle is already threaded. I'm using double thread because I will use the satin stitch we saw earlier. Using the black thread, I will create contrast between blue and orange... to make my repair more visible. I will begin. Remember, it is important to create a border on the entire outline of the tear. We extend it a little, a centimeter, and we start workin...”

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Course summary for: Embroidery: Clothing Repair

• Level: Beginner
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• 24364 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (4h 18m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  DIY, Embroidery, Sewing, Textile Design, Upcycling