This post makes me think of gentle waves lapping on sandy shore complete with bucket, spade and cricket bat.  It’s old fashioned, timeless and harks back to simpler times in an eat it now sort of way.

Celia Pym is a knitting/embroidery artist and much of her work centres around visible mending – taking something worn, discarded and unloved…

..and adding a new, contrasting layer to marry the piece together.

 

The finished work takes on a whole new personality – the ghost of the past with the mend of the future. The work is seamless but showy, in the best unshouty kind of way.

It makes me think I would love to do something like this to a much loved cashmere cardigan that’s seen better days.

Or mend the knees in my jeans like this.  Maybe it’s the integrity of the craft that’s so appealing? But I looked up on You Tube to see how to do it..

(All pics Celia Pym)

Even watching this was meditative.

Now where’s my darning mushroom?

Laters, Kate x