ErikaMoen
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This is How I Love You (A Jeans-Mending Project)
🕑 Added 2023-06-20 01:51:57 +0000 UTCYou wear your favorite jeans until they are shreds.
Your body rubs away denim, fiber by fiber, until the light shines through them.
It takes years, but all through the power of your body moving and living in these jeans, rubbing against them every day, grinding them away from the inside, you wear right through them.
One day you put them on like normal and then you crouch or you bend and we all hear the rip.
This is how I love you.
With my needle and my thread, this is how I do it.
I cannibalize denim from your older pants to sew into the newer ones. I tightly stitch down the edges of the holes so they can't unravel and I back the threadbare sections with the scavenged material so the light can't shine through anymore and I sew all the layers- the old and the new- I sew them together so they can't come apart again, no matter how hard you move and live in them.
Iām getting better. Each time I patch your jeans, I learn a little more, the process becomes easier, faster. It's even looking better! I'm figuring out how to make my practical stitches pretty and interesting. It's challenging, it's fun. I look forward to trying out my newest techniques when you come home with your newest tears.
You love to wear your jeans to shreds and I love to sew them right back up. It's how I show I care. With my needle and my thread and my whole goddamn heart, this is how I love you.
Comments
Rachel Kelly
Also I sewed my girlfriend's favorite shirt back together when the ER docs had to cut it off of them and it was such an expression of love!
Rachel Kelly
I adore this so much. I get done of these early access but I get so much psychic healing out of them that I save and really savor them! So wonderful
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Samantha Mann
This is the sweetest description with the cheekiest ending (pun fully intended)
The Ferret
I feel the exact same way about my knitting! Stitch by stitch I show my love for them n_n
Mandy Wright
This is some of the truest, purest thoughts and actions on love I've read in a long time.
