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Mending with Makers HQ: How to Repair a Pocket
Makers HQ show us how to repair a pocket to help extend the life of your favourite clothes.Softened with time and woven with memories, our favourite clothes are the ones we turn to again and again. Whether it’s a trusty shirt or a pair of jeans that seem to fit just right, the pieces we love should see us through season after season.
With this in mind, we’ve paired up with our Seasalt Friends at Makers HQ in Plymouth to bring you some mending tips that will help extend the life of your most-loved clothes.
The wonderful team at Makers HQ teach textile and manufacturing skills to help support the local community and encourage education and employment within fashion. Their vision is to ‘reimagine fashion’ and move towards building a more sustainable, slow and ethical fashion industry.
With just a needle and thread and some crafty know-how, Makers HQ are showing us how to breathe new life into old favourites. Give it a go yourself with this guide to repairing a worn pocket.
How to repair a pocket
Step 1
Choose your thread by laying the different colours you have across your garment to find the closest colour match.
Step 2
Next, you need to get your Seam Ripper and carefully unpick the last few stitches.
Step 3
Make sure you firstly sew the thread through making sure that the knot is at the back of the pocket, so it is not seen. Then, sew up through the very last stitch that you have just unpicked and pull it through.
Step 4
Stitch backwards over the top of the previous machine stitches to secure them and prevent them from unravelling.
Step 5
Finally, do a back stitch. This is where you sew down through the material, come back up through one stitch ahead, and then stitch backwards into the first hole, to stop the thread from unravelling. Now your pocket is nice and secure!
We’d love to see how you get on! Show us your mending progress by mentioning us @SeasaltCornwall on Facebook or Instagram.