I sprained my ankle last weekend and even though my hands are totally fine I've been in such a funk I couldn't manage to do anything crafty. Until a friend needed help patching up a pair of deckchairs' whose canvas got damagend in the wash. We used an old torn up denim as fabric donor, pinned it up, got the sewing kit out. I showed him how to do a basic stitch. We spent three whole hours and lo and behold in the end when he tried his refurbished chair... the fabric had become way too slack anyway. We could have avoided all the patching by just folding over the holes and sewing a new... roll-thingie-in-which-you-slid-the-rung. And we could still do; I offered to re-do it. But he was so upset (understandably so!!) by the whole thing that he decided, no, he would just trash the whole thing and buy new canvases. (And yeah honestly there's a high chance that even if, it'd rip again a bit further anyway.)
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Until a friend needed help patching up a pair of deckchairs' whose canvas got damagend in the wash. We used an old torn up denim as fabric donor, pinned it up, got the sewing kit out. I showed him how to do a basic stitch. We spent three whole hours and lo and behold in the end when he tried his refurbished chair... the fabric had become way too slack anyway. We could have avoided all the patching by just folding over the holes and sewing a new... roll-thingie-in-which-you-slid-the-rung. And we could still do; I offered to re-do it. But he was so upset (understandably so!!) by the whole thing that he decided, no, he would just trash the whole thing and buy new canvases. (And yeah honestly there's a high chance that even if, it'd rip again a bit further anyway.)