I was in a shop the other day with my daughter. She showed me a very cool pair of designer jeans with a mend on the leg that looks exactly like the mends I do on her jeans when they are torn.

She asked me, “Hey Mum will you show me how to do that?” She is now keen to learn because the mended look is now fashionable.

I think this is wonderful. Now all those old comfy jeans can be liberated to your best jeans again.

I do love the texture of machine darning. I love making something weak and falling apart strong again.

In fact I was throwing out an old pair of dead jeans the other day and I cut off the patch and darning off because it was so lovely.

I wrote on the darned patch and gave it to my friend as a birthday card.

That is a lot of reuse isn’t it. First jeans, then mended jeans and then the mend moves on to a new life as a little gift. Maybe my friend will sew them on her jeans and that mend can have a whole new life again.