#ceylon stitching

Mend with me: visible mending with scotch darning

Stitch of choice here is the ceylon stitch! I was originally using some of the leftover blue thread from the bi flag mend, but as we can see in the next picture, that turned out to be pretty scant and not quite enough for the whole mend.

Not only did I buy some non-sunfaded blue embroidery thread to continue here, but also, someone gifted me the cutest little needle minders, they're cats in teacups! The contrast between the two threads isn't super visible here where there's only one row, but you can really tell in the finished patch that the first thread I bought had seen no small volume of sun before getting used. (Suppose that's what I get for buying thread from a visibly sunfaded display in that joanns!)

Even despite how this turned out, with the two-toned blue thing going on, and the little bit in the top left corner where I dropped stitches and went back to fill them in after the fact, I still actually really dig how it looks. Something something the passage of time, imperfections let your soul out of it, y'know?

Over time, as this piece has settled in, I actually really enjoy how it sits on this shirt. Initially, the stitching made one giant thick mat that I could feel being large and annoying in my armpit, but a few runs through the laundry later and it's much, much more comfortable. If it weren't for the additional wear this puts on already high-stress areas, I'd honestly love to keep doing this to cover holes too small to sashiko patch, but too big for other techniques.