A parade of patches

End of week inspo for low-sew / no-sew fixes

We’ve talked in the past about covering stains and holes with embroidery, dyeing, darning and more.

Carolyn's silk shirt with a coffee stain

Dyeing my best baseball hat with Winona of Green Matters Dye Co

Rita's pink tights with the mysterious rip

All of these methods are lovely and all of them take a bit of time. What’s an easier way to reinvigorate something spotted? Patches!

I’ve been thinking of them lately as stickers for my clothes and there are a lot of fun ones around.

Here is a parade of 6 patches I’m into:

Iron-on knee patches by the Spanish company Elis Elis, that specializes in kids patches.

Camo printed patches meant for outdoor gear from No-So.

Neon patches from Day Dream society. Would look so cute crawling up a lil kids clothes!

A rose from the truly incredible www.sequinappliques.com, one of the best websites on this here internet. Shout-out to Natalie, who introduced me to it. Purveyor of many nouns in sequin applique form.

A set of face patches from Etsy. Etsy has a LOT of cool patches for sale & I don’t say that only because they pay my week-day salary.

The patches Paula makes for her whole class out of scrap fabric. I ordered a few patches to start playing around & next want to dive into making my own patches like my hero Paula (and like my cool sister-in-law Simone).

Simone's Stripy PJs with a hole in the butt

We’ll be back next time with an interview with circularity expert Cynthia Power of Molte Volte.

Have you patched something recently or found a source of cool patch for sale? Let me know!