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Trish Overstreet's avatar

I loved reading this Danielle. You inspire and affirm with your words and actions! And yes, we adults surely do need gold stickers and affirming rewards for our accomplishments, which can often feel like the tiniest blip of a wave on a sea of negativity. Our work matters! 🙏🏻

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Danielle Urban's avatar

Thanks for the kind words, Trish! Happy to have found your newsletter from you comment!

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Jenita McGowan's avatar

These are lovely goals. I wanted to let you know you’ve inspired me to try visible mending. I’ve finished a pant cuff repair that I’m pretty pleased with. :)

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Momma Nancy's avatar

I would love to hear some tips on hosting a mending circle.

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Danielle Urban's avatar

Great idea for a post! If you go back to my first post, it’s some lessons I learned from running a mending club, but I should do one specifically for tips for other people to start one!

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CraftingOnTheCouch's avatar

Hii I so appreciate how you're saying things you're not sure of, and we'll see what happens with time. New follower! Appreciate you!

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Gerrie Dur's avatar

I admire your interest in reimagining existing garments, through visible mending or refashioning. I recently commented that, as a household full of civic workers (mostly school-based) plus one student and one retiree, I may need to find a job doing mending. I think there will be a lot of people hanging onto their cheap clothing, due to lack of employment. Something I would like to hear more about is visible mending techniques-machine or by hand, with or without embroidery. Can mixed media be incorporated, somehow? Im visualizing strips of worn t-shirts, woven into patches, or even strips of plastic bags. I’ve never been artistic or very imaginative, but you’ve inspired me. Thanks so much!

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Danielle Urban's avatar

Thanks for the comment! My "the mending series" posts go over different techniques with tutorials - so far there is one on darning and one on patching by hand. I'm working on one right now for patching with a sewing machine

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