Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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A place to share ideas, knowledge and creations with textiles. The focus is on reducing waste, whether that be sewing from the scraps left from other projects, using the end of rolls and remnants, or repairing and remaking finished pieces.

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Backpack Repair Update: One Year Later (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Phlogiston@sh.itjust.works to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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I was recently looking at old posts in this community, and it reminded me that it's been over a year since I repaired these two backpacks and made a few posts about the process.

Both of these have held up remarkable well in a year of near daily use. Some of the shoe-goo sealant is starting to detach in places:

But most of it is still in place. The fabric patches and sewing line I used to close the rips are also still in one piece:

The shoe goo is still in a drawer somewhere, so I may apply a fresh coat at some point, if more of it flakes off. But overall, I'm really happy with how these have held up!

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[–] cabillaud@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't you find the result a bit ugly ?

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The repairs or on a less visible part of the backpack, but even so I think whether it's ugly depends a bit on the context. In a DIY crust-punk scene I bet this would be considered pretty rad, a positive look even.