fixing worn spots in my laundry bag.
I don’t know where this hole came from.
This is a laundry bag I was issued when I was deploying to Kuwait in 2004-2005. I used it all the time, and I don’t remember dragging it on the ground in a way that would cause this hole, so maybe it was there when I got it. But I noticed it one day, and I couldn’t leave it as it was, so here we go.
close enough.
I didn’t have any matching fabric (obviously), so I found some green linen scraps and put patches over the hole. My goal here was to just cover the hole so it didn’t get worse; these bags are quite sturdy and this is really the first one I’ve ever had that showed any actual damage. (I also didn’t care if the thread matched. I think this orange thread looks pretty cute.)
but wait, there’s more.
This is basically the same situation in a different spot on the same bag. I am really not this hard on my stuff; these holes had to have been made by whomever was originally issued this bag.
tidy stitching makes me so happy.
You can barely see the stitching. I’d actually forgotten that I did these repairs until I found the pictures in the “mending” folder in my phone’s camera roll.