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Mend to Save - March 2019

​I am in the process of mending some children's trousers. Two pair with one knee out in each of them. It will take me longer to unpick the seams than to do the actual mending of them but when finished they will be like new and the children will be able to wear them again. What does this cost me? My time and the cost of a tiny bit of electricity to run the machine and cotton to sew the seams... so practically nothing. What do I gain? Well my grand-kids will think I am wonderful and what grandmother doesn't want that? 

I know its old hat and not the done thing nowadays, but if you can learn to wield a sewing needle and thread or have the good fortune to be able to get the use of a sewing machine, you could save yourself a fortune by mending it yourself. A hem, a loose button, an unravelling seam, a tiny hole that appears in a top... all are easy to mend and can give your item of clothes a longer run and your wallet a rest from having to be opened up to provide money for replacement items. 

I am a novice at best when it comes to sewing and wish I could be better but I still make sure I get the most out of a sewing machine my husband bought me years ago, if only by mending our clothes. 
Contributed by Linda Stapleton