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I make mending tutorials! As well as muse about quilting, upcycling clothes, and my own relationship to fashion and consumption and under capitalism.
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A circular fashion & textile lover’s Edinburgh travel diary (opens the original)
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When my partner told me he had a work trip to Edinburgh and asked if I wanted to come along, thought “sure who am I to pass up a free hotel room in Europe for a week.” What I wasn’t expecting was just how insanely delighted I would be by the city. Not to even mention accidentally finding myself traveling there during the fringe festival. I saw some amazing performances, and ate some delicious food; but this is Front Porch Threads after all, so this letter will focus on the textiles and circular
Mending Mondays 02: hole in delicate silk shirt (opens the original)
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hiya and welcome to the second installment of Mending Monday! A chatty video series walking you through my various points of decision making when mending a garment, along with a shorter recap post. Delicate Floral shirtGarment source: hand-me-down from my roommate (are you sensing a pattern from last week yet), brand is Carole DolighanFiber content: 100% silk Fabric construction: wovenDescription of damage: One hole in the outer shirt, next to the sleeve s
The birth of a side quest (opens the original)
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A nice compliment I got from a friend recently was that I do a lot of random projects. More specifically, that I was good at having an idea for something, and then actually doing it. And while reflecting on a new group mending project that I wanted to write to you about today, I realized it was a good example of this phenomenon. So I wanted to share the series of events and actions that it took to go from a passing thought to an art project that’s on its way to being real in order to hopefully s
Mending Monday: a floral patch on floral shorts (opens the original)
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Hello! If you’ve been subscribed to front porch threads for a bit you know I started this space in part to share accessible mending tutorials. This new bi-weekly series is getting back to that! It’ll be less a specific tutorial about one technique and more a follow along style video of my thought process and methods throughout the course of mending all the damage on one garment. I want to do this is because mending a garment is often a series of small decisions with no one right answer, and I wa
The evolution of front porch threads and my dreams for the future (opens the original)
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hello! I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2024, but Front Porch Threads has existed as an experiment for since late 2020, used as an account across various platforms with the stated goals of re-using textile waste in creative wayshelping people connect to the textiles in their wardrobes and homeshelping my community make their own closets more circular<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w-7l!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/http
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