I tried. I tried ‘subtle.’ I really did. But subtle mends on fine gauge knits, especially if you don’t have matching yarn, are actually far, far more difficult than Big, Boisterous, Dramatic mends. Plus infinitely less cheerful.

And I dunno about you, but I don’t currently have the necessary fortitude for both harder and less cheerful. So I went in the complete opposite direction. And I kinda love it.

There’s another hole over on the sleeve, and I’m going to do it next. Want me to show you how? (Where ‘show you how’ likely means write up proper instructions for doing this particular style of mending and also do a series of posts over the next little while with some videos talking about what I’m doing, because sometimes watching something like that is easier than reading about it, or at least is a good augment to reading about it.)

I’d likely do little snippets of things on instagram (where you need to keep videos under 90 seconds for anyone to see them), with longer ones over on patreon (because by god sometimes One Single Human Thought needs more than 90 seconds to fully explore, despite what are algo overlords would have you believe). You can see a video of this first mend in action and let me know if you want more on this post over here.