#mending basket

[anne-and-god]

Darn It

[commensally]

And here's the first dip into the mending basket: stuff that needs relatively-complicated alterations. There's a shirt I thrifted that had a wide band of elastic lace at the bottom, and I'm still struggling to come up with why that was a good idea, so I took it off and will someday sew it back on, but at empire-line. And then do a lettuce hem around the bottom to match the sleeves. Which I have never done but can't be that hard, right? And then the old witch's hat which had served my family well for decades, but the seam-binding that held in the wire loop around the brim finally just gave up the ghost, so it needs somethine else to keep the brim standing out. And a really nice long jacket I bought clearace at the fair trade outlet, but I want it to be more shaped at the waist, which would be easy because it's a very simple cut, except that it's reversible and that makes everything 4x more complicated. And a silk-blend skirt printed with fantasy maps, also thrifted, which is amazing but for somebody six inches taller and with six inches less waist. And no pockets. This is totally fixable! Probably. On the other end, a plain t-shirt and a pair of work trousers, both several sizes two big, that I was going to try to cut down as practice with cutting things down, but haven't yet. And finally, my reproduction Elizabethan weskit, cut for crossplay, which is great except for a tendency to not hold its shape. Probably it should have been lined, but I didn't want to have the extra insulation for what I wear it for, so I'm hoping I can sew some cordage as stiffening on strategic seams to fix it. (It also needs better heam treatment around the collar.) And finally, a headcloth and a wrap, both of which I made bad choices about hemming when I originally made them. I think I want to replace the whit trim on the gray one with crocheted-on lace to preserce the stretch; the other one needs proper rolled hems instead of lazy ones.