Sometimes your clothing has a stain or tear that’s impossible to fix or remove. Most would simply throw it away, but with a bit of patchwork, you can give your clothing new life! Here’s how you can do it.
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Iron the fabric on the area of the stain so you know how large the replacement piece needs to be. Decide what area needs to be cut out and measure it. The replacement piece needs to be 2 cm bigger at all sides.
2
Find fabric that has the same or similar color, preferable a fabric with the same structure and material. In this case the back of my replacement fabric has the most similar color, so I’ll use that.
3
In this case, the replacement fabric is too thin. That’s why we’ll stitch two halves together to make a bigger patch. (I’m putting the brighter color outside since I’m using the back.)
4
Create a seam with a zigzag stitch on the other edges so the fabric won’t unravel.
5
Cut the stain out of the clothing so that you’ll have aa little window. Put the replacement piece behind it.
6
Fix the patch on the fabric with pins and string it, about 1,5 cm from the window.
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Find a beautiful color of embroidery silk and string it 1-1,5 cm from the edge. The embroidery string lights up like small pearls.
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You can now remove the first string thread (from step 6). This is how it now looks from the back.
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Cut a small notch in every corner of the window.
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Fold the notch edges carefully to the inside. Pinch with two fingers until you get a sharp fold. This is the seam we’re going to stitch onto the newly made patch.
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Stitch the folded edges onto the patch with small, as invisible as possible, stitches.
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For this dress, I made three patchwork windows. It looks so much better than those nasty stains, making it perfectly wearable again!
