#heartpatch

aw man - thanks for looking! I tried to search on my end too, but couldn’t find anything.

hi pal!! omg this is so cute. tbh I think I have a lame answer which is that I can’t really imagine turning any of my fics into a novel!! at least in my mind, they’re all so wound up in their original canon and the characters in the source material that to untangle them and scrub out all the tlou/narcos/etcetc from them would leave them flat (to me, at least!! and I’m only speaking about my fics specifically here <3). plus my fics are very different than the writing I do for myself & for publishing (outside of the internet, I write exclusively literary fiction that pretty much always ends in some sort of peril and rarely if ever includes any romance), so maybe that’s also why I have a hard time adapting them in my brain haha!!

BUT for the sake of fun, maybe I’ll Carry You? childhood best friends just hits and I think the structure of that fic might be fun to expand and play with within the confines of a novel. those babies know how to YEARN and I miss them!!

My Nana used to repair jeans with patch hearts, so when my mom asked me to fix her horse riding jeans she kept bringing up the heart patches. She wanted her jeans to have a heart on them, like her mama used to do for her when she was younger.

I should have asked my mom about how Nana did it before I tried as I definitely made things a little harder on myself.

Cutting out a heart patch, easy. Hemming a patch heart, hard. Turns out Nana didn’t hem her patches but instead used a zigzag stitch on her machine to sew everything down. Not sure how she kept them from fraying that way or if fraying was part of their charm 🤷🏻‍♀️

I hand sewed a layer of muslin to stabilize the surrounding fabric and give me something to stitch down the loose edges to before hand stitching the heart patch on over the top.

I am proud of how I did, and I learned a few lessons on how to do it better and faster next time.