Back! with a repaired piece of work

It’s like starting a new blog. How do I begin? How to say Hello?

If you’ve started a blog once – or wanted to fill something with life which was empty before such as a notebook, a sketch book, then you may know this feeling of respect for the first symbol. Whether it’s a full-stop, a number, a line.

To my surprise, I do feel that today as well. Though I was only having a break.

In the meantime I did this and that. Hopefully some things will make it on the blog eventually. I wished to find a focus for the blog but this didn’t happen. But I also didn’t look for one to be honest. Time just flew and now it’s mid May 2022. I thought about the blog a few times and there were a lot of topics when I tought „I definitely want to bring THIS topic on my blog!“. I still don’t have a proper schedule for my blog though I think that would be really nice. There are a lot of things which would be nice regarding my blog. But planning and organizing takes time and energy. And it seems that this is not what it should be right now.

Today, I don’t only welcome back myself on my blog but I also bring something else along which is my most current repaired piece of work. Freshly darned on the couch! I mended a sock (again), started yesterday and this spot here took around 5 to 6 hours. That sounds like quite a while but I really enjoyed the time and in my opinion darning is some kind of meditation (like other handicrafts) therefore this number of time just remains a plain number to me.

Repairing culture is something I’m really fascinated by, in every way and I also think that repairing is healing. Not only for the piece to be repaired but also for myself. It’s like this feeling when you create something with your own hands and feet.

But on top, there’s this feeling of taking away the pain because you cared about the spot that has hurt.

I know it got a bit dramatic😄

I’m at the beginning of getting to know how to repair clothes and other textiles (such as the zippers of bed linen). But in general I think every kind of repairing and thereby bringing new life into an existing piece is super cool! Working with wood stuff! Repairing a bicycle!

Have you ever repaired something or brought it to someone else for repairing? Do you want to be able to repair more or do you think that it’s okay that things come to an end eventually?

PS: Although the colour of the sock is different in the photos, it is the same one. There’s still some work regarding my „documentary“ photos 😀

• Category: Mein Blog und ich, Scanner-Fokus
• Tag: Handarbeit, reparieren, stopfen, Stopfwerk