I've been working through my mending pile over the holiday weekend and the preceding week and it was finally the below jackets turn. It was my favorite for a few years, it's faux leather and I got it at a thrift store for a couple bucks, but after going to every bar with me in the city (it's a good bar jacket, just think of all the pockets!) it was looking battered, and had a big mark/tear on one sleeve.
So I decided to see if it would work as a vest and it did!. I unpicked the seams on the sleeves and then used the material from the unharmed sleeve to make binding tape of a sort for the arm holes. I also patched a few bits of lining that were fraying (I'm telling you this thing has been around the block a few times) and now it's ready for it's second (or third?) life.
Also I made a well timed stop into my neighborhood thrift store recently with a friend and it turned out we'd stumbled into some sort of massive sale. All the clothes were just $2. We dug through the racks for a few hours before we had to force ourselves to stop because we just kept finding amazing things. I got five sweaters for ten dollars!!!!!! among other things. It was very satisfying and good to know my thrift karma is still strong. Now if I can just finish fixing the rest of the mending pile....
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