Mending: label hole

I took a chunk out of this this sweater when I was cutting off the label. A few stitches and I can wear it again.

One more thing out of the mending pile and into the clean clothes.

Alterations: T-shirt v-neck

I like v-neck shirts and have taken to simply cutting myself a v-neck in some casual T-shirts. I altered this one some time ago, but a raw cut is likely to extend and veer, so it’s in the mending pile. I finally hemmed the cut–not too well nor too straight, but at least it won’t tear in the spin cycle. It’s the witty Loch Ness Imposter shirt from Threadless.

More mending: fall camouflage camisole

The strap for this camouflage camisole let go shortly after I bought it—must have been all that running on the beach in slow motion, the breezes playing in my hair, the sunlight sparkling on the water. It has been in the mending basket ever since— until now.

Mending

A kind of wordless crossword–hemming a pullover of delicate cloth:

Slowly I’m reducing my mending pile. Then I start adding to it instead of putting up with stuff.

New windows

Our new windows were installed. One of them came with a new frame. It took about five hours, but the fellows did a really good job and made sure all the loose ends were tucked in.

New windows

We’re getting a couple of new, double-hung windows for the house. We’re replacing a poorly thought out casement window and a window with a broken latch.

That way, we can open the mew windows at both the top and the bottom. But the real beauty of double-hung windows is that we can clean both sides of them without hanging out the window.