CREATIVE MENDING: Beautiful Darning, Patching And Stitching Techniques By Hikaru Noguchi

CREATIVE MENDING: Beautiful Darning, Patching And Stitching Techniques By Hikaru Noguchi will show you how to repair your favourite thing - from jeans to sweaters - and you will be addicted.

Textile guru Hikaru Noguchi take you through all the forms of mending - referred to in this book as darning - to inspire you to get creative on that fraying neckline  or worn elbow.

This book shows you techniques for:

• Working on knitted and woven fabrics.
• Mending with yarn, floss, ribbon and fabric.
• Darning with flet to add body and dimension.
• Matching the technique to the wear/tear.
• And more.

Lessons for basic and advanced techniqes, with variations, plus plenty of tips and examples, give you all the guidance you need to rething, and repair, beautifully. 

Whether the look you're after is whimsical or elegant, you'll find wonderful ideas in this book for transforming your pieces into something new, and those jeans with the worn-out seat may become the most amazing thing in your wardrobe.

Hikaru Noguchi is a knitted textile designer. Her passion for fabric has led her to become one of the world's leading experts in darning, with the aim to creatively fix rather than dicard. Her darning books, including Darning: Repair, Make, Mend are popular all around the globe, and her textiles havebeen widely exhibited and are sold in boutiques worldwide. Find her work at www.hikarunoguchi.com

Hard cover

Tuttle Publishing