MendMarch 2025

MendMarch, the brainchild of Kate Sekules, is one of my favorite Instagram challenges.
Kate comes up with daily prompts

@visiblemend

and the cohort of menders post their interpretations.

Here are the links to mine!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Linking up with
Shelbee on the Edge

MendMarch 2024

 MendMarch, the brainchild of Kate Sekules, is one of my favorite Instagram challenges.

Kate comes up with daily prompts

and the cohort of menders post their interpretations.

Here are the links to mine!

You are invited to see the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

I stopped on March 18. Life happened.

MendMarch 2022

 MendMarch, the brainchild of Kate Sekules, is one of my favorite Instagram challenges.

Kate comes up with daily prompts

and the cohort of menders post their interpretations.

Here are the links to mine!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

It's Mending and Make It Yourself March!

Today as I was #slowly (Prompt #1 at @visiblemend) working my way through "Stitching the World", it came to me that today is March 1st and the Mending March Instagram challenges commence.
I interrupted my stitching, brought my threaded needle with me to the computer room (so I wouldn't misplace it),

and checked out the prompts for today.
Visiblemend has daily prompts:

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MendMarch! It’s on. Here you go, all the prompts—and I think this year, year three, they all make sense? Maybe not the 10th. Anyway, as before, you are welcome to—you must!—mess with them as you please. If you’re new here, this is technically an instagram challenge but really it’s an excuse to mend, share mends, make mendfriends, force yourself to face your mend pile, etc. It is fun. Do as many or few as you like, but do note that this year I am prizing you. Some lucky mender who manages ALL 31 wins a box of fabulous vintage mend supplies ie #haberdasheryporn Are you in? Tell me tell me! And ama if not making sense (ps when will dumb phone /instagram overlords stop autocorrecting “mends” to “men’s”?) #mends #itsmends #mendmarch #mendmarch2020 #visiblemending #darning #stopfen #repriser #raccommodage #zurcir #slowstitching #handstitch #slowfashion #instagramchallenge #igchallenge

A post shared by MendyKate (@visiblemend) on Feb 13, 2020 at 12:15pm PST

Wendy Ward, the creator of "MIY [make it yourself] March" is doing a slower approach this year.
She has a thought-provoking questionnaire in the above linked post which I stopped answering midway to write this.

Actually, I came over to SpyGirl to find some outfit links to add to the above answer and then realized I should be writing a post!

The green tunic:

I sewed this in This first appeared on SpyGirl July 2012 and was sewn before I was blogging for an Otis Fashion event, so I estimate 2005? I bought the fabric in downtown LA, at one of those $1/a yard places when Otis had its Fashion Campus located in the Cal Mart. It's that overdyed stripy rayon that was so popular in the late 80s.

The Italian rayon tunic:

I obtained this fabric when I was a Sample Cutter at Warren Z in 1986. It was sample yardage.
I sewed the tunic in January 2013. (I love the fact that blogging enables me to date things).

I've been doing my work-day outfit posts on Instagram. I've come up with a system for avoiding too much outfit repetition (I would be judged by the office-mate) and a key component is the phone app that I use to create the outfit/textile collages: Instasize.

I check the App to see what I've worn the past three weeks or so.
I also hang garments the order worn.

Here's another good question:

I answered with the tunic that I made in May 2018 at a workshop with Amy Bond:

I'm not sure if it's statistically the least worn me-made garment, but it's perhaps the most disappointing.
The base cloth is so scratchy and stiff. I even tried "softening" it by using it as a couch cover, but it was too scratchy for even that.
Sigh.

OK, gotta get back to stitching!
I gathered 93 answers to my 4 questions at the stARTup Art Fair two weeks ago.
That's a lot of journeys to stitch!
There's still time to join in, click here.

Linking up with
Patti's Visible Monday [maybe. Last one].
Catherine's #iwillwearwhatilike

March Madness for Menders

I have found not one, but two Mending/Sewing Challenges on Instagram!
Yikes.
My sewing calluses will become nicely developed over the month!

The first I found before March 1st, so I'm a bit more organized for it:

Here's the Instagram post:

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Ok here are your MendMarching orders! With a week to go (how did that happen?) As last year, feel free to adapt /screw with any category, and jump in and out as you please: the idea is to share & inspire, not to stress & depress. I think these are all clear/obvious? The first is to ease us in with a showing off of your supplies. 6 & 7 courtesy of mendpun queen @fie_derelsa --and day 15 is a special day... #MendAndMakeFriends is for @gatherwhatspills fabulous patch swap, so if you were playing along, this is when to post your patch, all sewn in. If you lack a patch, just do any friendly mend you like, obvs. Share this madly! Let's be mendfriends! #mendmarch #visiblemending #mendtheworld #darning #patching #slowstitch #slowfashion #handstitched #handrepair #lovedclotheslast #wellworn #wornwear #wabisabi #mendspiration #mendship

A post shared by MendyKate (@visiblemend) on Feb 22, 2019 at 9:02am PST

The second, which I just found a few minutes ago, is this:

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Here's a #miymarch19 heads up for you - the full list of daily prompts, for the 1st time this year has an overall theme which is SUSTAINABLE SEWING. ➡️ Myself and @dressmakerssocial will post each day's theme in the morning (UK time!!) along with some more info, ideas, explanations. At the end of each day we'll share our favourite 4 pics of that day. ➡️ If you haven't played before it's a month long photo challenge to post a photo a day to a daily theme, check out previous year's hashtags #miymarch18 #miymarch17, etc. If you have a private account though only your own followers will be able to see your pics rather than the whole #instasewing community! ➡️ As I'm going to be spending most of March relocating my life from Brighton to Sheffield we've decided to keep it simple this year and not have any sponsors - it's just for the ❤❤ of it and finding new sewing folk to connect with 😊 we're looking forward to meeting you all!!

A post shared by Wendy Ward - MIY Collection (@thatwendyward) on Feb 28, 2019 at 12:56pm PST

This one is more of a general sewing challenge, but since the theme is Sustainable Sewing, a lot of mending would qualify.

I'm going to go with #miymarch's 3/4 prompt: Recycled today:
"It's Recycled for day 4 of #miymarch19 Show us your makes using recycled materials it doesn't have to be clothing as long as it uses recycled materials ♻️ I'm looking forward to some inspired makes today"


I wish I could find this dress-that-came-from-a-skirt, I want to wear it, even though it requires some mending!

Old picture from a TAG reception. Note phone case matches art on wall.
Best guess is 2013?

Linking up with Patti's Visible Monday
Shelbee's  Sunday Showcase
Catherine's #ShareAllLinkup