You can sew it over a hole in your fabric or you can also so the patch in the inside to have it peek out. Patches are very versatile when used for repairing clothes. It is a great solution for mending holes with patches and well to reinforce thinning fabric! For learning the basics of Sashiko there is a wonderful beginners tutorial by Benzie Design.

This type of traditional Japanese mending practice is used to reinforce the strength of fabric as well as decorate. If you’re interested in employing this stitch, check out this awesome darning tutorial by Evelyn Wood! The embroidery technique used to repair holes in fabric by using running stitches and thread woven in-between those stitches to repair a hole. There are many techniques to mending clothes and here are some popular techniques that will help you save your clothes and also reduce your consumption of fast-fashon! darning I think this method is super cool to repair clothes you may really want to keep but also make more beautiful. Instead of trying to make the mend invisible as possible, it can be fun and creative to hi light the tears and holes with stitching that adds to the garment.

Visible mending is a way to fix clothes with holes in a decorative way.