Moths seem to have the same preference for cashmere than me, when it comes to clothes. The only difference is they eat it, and I wear it and try to keep up with their feast.

My past week was taken up a good bit by mending holes in some cashmere jumpers. Instead of just filling the holes pretending they where never there, I fill them up with little colourful stars. Maybe because I don’t have one of these cotton embroidery yarns in black. Or maybe because I would get bored very quickly. Mending a hole in the same colour, in the end doesn’t even show the result of your work. It just hides the mess up of the moths.

I choose to fill holes with stars instead of fixing errors of others.

After I had wrote about it on Monday. @glorydee asked me, how I do it. True, I am far from being the only one who has to deal with holes. Meanwhile she figured out how to turn the mistake of a hole into a new design. That made me think. Maybe it sound more glorious to write about new projects and things accomplished. But we all deal with the little things as well.

Fixing holes, fixing errors, replacing buttons, broken sips. You won’t notice a working sip as much as you won’t notice a fixed hole. You only notice these things when they don’t work, when they are annoying. All the while fixing them might take up as much time as sewing a beautiful dress, everybody compliments you for. So maybe we can find ways to fix these things in a way people could compliment you for as well? The work that went into it would be noticeable, if not for others, then at least for your own sense of accomplishment.

How to fill the holes with stars?

It is five points in a circle. You leave one out stitch into the next and go back one underneath.

How do you show what you are doing? If you where sitting next to me I would just do it a few times in front of your eyes and talk you through the stitches. Then we would still sit next to each other and every time you might ask “And where now?” I’ll say “There and then there.” And in five minutes it would be clear.

It is far easier to learn and do it, than to show it. Or maybe I just don’t have enough “primary teacher” inside me. Or you might be able to decode my attempts anyways. Or you could have just read through the words and photos and think about all the invisible work that happens behind a fixed thing.

Will you fill the holes in your clothes with stars?

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