elysha

@worthmending.com

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thrifty scrappy sweetheart mending stuff, making stuff, doing my dang best 🦝✨🌈 they/them all the links (shop, blog, etc) at worthmending.com/welcome

This is the image I used to make the previous digital flyer, it is a picture from the last time Be Gay Do Crafts did collage. The part that stressed me out was that I offered my copy of the Canadian Green Consumer Guide for some reason...which I regretted a lot because it's a cool book. Oh well. Maybe I will patch it back together one day.
Be Gay Do Crafts digital flyer. A collage, with orange stripes and a black bird mid-flight coming in on the left. Block of text reads: be gay do crafts, a queer crafternoon at kwartzlab makerspace. last saturday of every month, 2-4 pm. guided crafts or bring your own. this month: collage. march 28 2026. free, all supplies provided. rsvp: kwartzlab.eventbrite.com
Digital flyer for Knit City Toronto. March 27-29, 2026 at Enercare Centre. The top half of the flyer shows three white people hanging out at the Tullys Yarn/Worth Mending booth. Yep, that's us! I'm caught with a goofy look on my face and one hand in motion because I'm probably flailing around, with my two friends looking quite normal in the background. Ooh, all of our booth display stuff got stolen last year so our display this year will look totally different how fun is that!
Hamilton Fibre Market flyer. Sunday March 22, 2026. 10-4 at the Cotton Factory: 270 Sherman Ave N in Hamilton. Bottom half of image is a slightly out of focus cropped view of Worth Mending table at a previous Hamilton Fibre Market event. You can see two Swift Darning Looms and a scattering of brightly coloured tiny tapestries woven on the same loom.
Digital flyer of a patched close-up of blue jeans. Text reads: mending drop-in! + repair cafe. third thursday of the month at kwartzlab makerspace, 145 bedford rd, kitchener. 7-10 pm, free, all welcome. sign up at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com
Digital flyer, background image is a beautiful muted purple cable knit cardigan being repaired with pink and gold yarn. The top half shows the repair in-progress, Elysha's hands darning using a Swift Darning Loom. The bottom half is the "after" image, the cuffs highlighted in gold with a pink-and-gold darn on the right sleeve. This sweater was given to me by a friend and now that it's fixed, it's beloved by my little sister she's so lucky!
A digital flyer of sorts, with the text worth mending what's happening; march events. the background image is a view from inside a barn on a sunny blue late-feb day, you can see the landscape through the open barn door. in the foreground there are a bunch of willow sticks leaning to the left, and in the middle ground are my stick-sorting pals sorting sticks. This was Agnes' first year growing willow at Steckle (aka Stickle) Farm and I'm so delighted to support her sweet sticky ventures.
A blue sewing machine surrounded by a bunch of patchwork denim (blue and black) pieces in progress, they're gonna be mini zippered pouches hopefully by the end of tomorrow.
screenshot of a colour picker for the colour #eaec47. the colour breakdown reads: hue 60, sat 178, val 236, red 234, green 236, blue 71.
Handwritten flyer for Be Gay Do Crafts, a queer crafternoon event at Kwartzlab Makerspace. This month's theme is a clothing swap and DIY repair, taking place from 2-4 pm on Saturday February 28. RSVP at kwartzlab.eventbrite.com
Wicker bird sculpture on a white background, with a brass bird looming behind. The woven bird has a short grumpy stature, an oversized beak and a little bowl-shaped hat that hints at eyes and a crest.
Green sweater, already mended at the collar, with small hole on shoulder seam
Three willow baskets and three basket bases stacked on an antique radiator (it's a one-pipe steam system but we don't have to talk about that). Brown, green, and red willow woven into a large oval, small oval, and small round asymmetrical basket! Three round bases for future weaving whims.
Green sweater with a small hole near the upper shoulder. There are already some pale green repairs on the collar.
IG reshare of a post about repair cafe and text says "happy that this post got some local eyes and we have a great crew signed up both to help & get stuff fixed! However wowowowowoow is it ever snowing, so maybe I'll see you next month instead? ... I'll still be there, undecided on bike/walk" [slightly abridged]
Black leggings being repaired with pink cotton thread at a sewing machine. The previous repairs are visible too, dots of grey yarn hand-stitched and holding up well after a year of wear.
A handful of chonky old screws taken from disassembled furniture.
Elysha, wide-eyed mirror image snapchat selfie. Overlay text says "What's ur location". Yellow bangs, brown hair otherwise. Black glasses, black mask. Wearing awesome mushroom print shirt sewn by my friend and given to me at a clothing swaaaaapppppp
Photo of a green suitcase with pleading caption to please let me know if you see such an item ditched somewhere. Downtown Kitchener/Central Frederick area. The latches PIVOT which is weird & why our night visitor couldn't open it to realize there was nothing of value inside before dragging it off.
8.4x14" white fabric printed with a rainbow (digitized version of the rainbow fabric from previous post) and 160 phrases printed on top which all start with "queer as in". Not enough room here to write them all out, sorry! :( image is mirrored because this was actually a misprint where I forgot to mirror the image before printing! Oopsie!
a rectangular rainbow-striped patch on top of more rainbow-striped fabric. The colour grade starts and ends with pink, with ROYGGBV in between. All but the pink rows hold a phrase, in a plain machine-embroidered lower case font: queer as in collective liberation queer as in fuck the police queer as in housing for all queer as in fire to the prisons queer as in free palestine queer as in land back queer as in then, now, forever
Mended jeans on a white table. Foreground text reads: "Choosing well for our wardrobes [and mending]… are some of the most emotionally rewarding habits we can cultivate in our everyday lives.” This and the main text are quotes from – Elizabeth L. Cline, The Conscious Closet
and not silly in a fun way 🧐 this was microscope work. Green rib knit held vertically on a wooden plank which you can see has a groove cut out of the side. Blue elastic keeping everything taut. White sewing thread holding the stitches that were just ladder-darned with a latch hook but there is still a hole visible. Pale hand and green background slightly out of focus.
Pale hands holding a magnifying lens that is attempting to embiggen an exceptionally fine, green rib knit. You can see the window reflection more clearly than the latch hook that is attempting to pick up dropped stitches radiating from the hole in this garment.
Digital flyer showing a heavily repaired pair of green pants on the left, and text on the right. Title: MEND YOUR CLOTHES with worth mending. Details: first Wednesday of the month, 7-9 pm at Kwartzlab Makerspace, 145 Bedford Rd Kitchener. Description: Build your skills to patch, darn, hem, sew buttons, fix seams and other common repairs. Basic supplies provided. Cost: free/ $10/ pay what you want. Email questions to elysha@worthmending.com ❤️‍🔥
Close up of a novelty plant pot depicting a squirrel holding a giant acorn. The acorn is open on top and full of pebbles. In the background there is a second same pot with plant cuttings already in it. Between is a random mug with a birch bark pattern that kinda adds to the foresty scene, and out of focus my sister scraped her name into the backsplash of the countertop.
Elysha selfie in front of mirror in Kwartzlab textiles space. There's a lot going on in the pic but most notably Scott is blurry, walking past making a funny face that the camera managed to capture. Swapped 'fit is green tee (new today), black/white checkerboard skirt (used to be a cardigan), wool tights given to me full of holes (now mended), orange socks (also very mended)...and thrifted ~indoor shoes~. In the frame you can see a dress form, a floor loom, and a wall (plastered with sewing patterns to make an abstract brown pattern) covered in shelves of sewing machines, thread and other notions.
A Swift Darning Loom beside a pair of socks mended in blue and pink. The whole scene has a vertical sine wave distortion filter applied, so it's all wavy and weird looking. The wood grain is wavy and the darned patches look not like a plain weave but more like an undulating twill weave.
text on off-white paper reads: "Less despair, more repair!" surrounded by flowers, bees, clouds, sun and moon in the Mending Migration passport. Words and doodles by Lara!
Biking down one of our city's well-maintained bike trails during a cold snap, feeling very cool and brave. White person with glasses brown curly hair. Bright helmet, bright cowl (hand knit, from a clothing swap!), wool jacket. Orange wool mitten obscuring part of the shot on the right side of the frame.
Two people walking down a cobble street dressed fully as daisies. The composite middle part of the flower makes a hat/mask combo for a full disguise and the long petals fan out past their waists. Wearing all green on torso/legs to resemble flower stalks.
Screenshot from Facebook. Original name is marked out for anonymity. Comment reads: "10 on amazon vs 100+ on worth mending.. heh.." Worth Mending reply is shown below: "thanks yes, there are cheaper alternatives for most consumer products including ones similar to ours! grateful that our customers know not everything is a race to the bottom to mass produce things ❤️"
Blue heart darned on a vintage sweater. Yarn mess and Swift Darning Loom in the background, on a table covered in pink and green patchwork.
Screenshot of a worthmending instagram story. The background is pale pink and there are three collaged images of yarn flowers on a circle loom, in hand and attached to a tiny woven tapestry. The text describes being excited about the attendance but forgetting to take a pic of what I created. Be Gay Do Crafts is a free drop-in on the last Saturday of every month at a local community makerspace.
Instagram story screenshot from annihilaity and worthmending. Text reads, A: "I made a patch that isn't square!" to which W replies, "omg!!! 💘🩶🩷 heck yeah you did!!! You cracked heart weaving on a loom? I love this I need to try it asap!!!” all very excitedly of course. The background image is a black and pink heart-shaped patch on a black sock.
Black jeans on a pink rag rug, with both knees patched in the same pattern of pink, yellow, and blue squares sewn together. There's also a repair down by the hem where the jeans may have gotten caught in a bike chain?
Close-up of the same bag, with the black-and-white textured woven lining showing.
Stacks of colourful fabric squished in rows inside a clear acrylic tray. lots of pinks, greens, reds, and blues visible!
A blue plaid sleeve covered in white running stitch mends as well as two heart-shaped patches in red patterned fabric and outlined with thick red stitches. Repairing the left side of the sleeve is in progress, more white stitches stacked in curved lines.
Woven patch in burgundy and beige on the sleeve of a vintage grampa sweater knit in burgundy, beige, and navy. Light-skinned hand gesturing to the patch. A small hole is visible just below the completed darn.
A toasted poppyseed bagel sits on top of a round wooden cutting board. It's got a generous slathering of vegan butter and topped again with sliced pickled jalapeno rounds. To the right is the jar of remaining brine with a fork in it. The whole setup is at the edge of a white table with wooden flooring out of focus in the background.
Beige fabric laid on green sofa. On the fabric, a wooden frame sits around an array of dried poppy heads. The stalks are attached with a narrow band of black weaving. The weaving is being attached to the beige background with black stitches. A wooden darning loom (used to weave the poppies) and snips sit just out of frame on the left side.
A pile of around 40 woven flowers on a white table, 6 or 12 petals each, in red/orange/yellow yarn. Three cog-shaped cardboard looms and a pair of scissors are also in the frame.
Close up. The jeans are barely visible but it's a knee patch, in patchwork quilt squares of pink/blue/yellow patterns. 2-3 rows of small running stitches at top and bottom secure the patchwork to the denim below, where the original seam allowance was too small to hold properly.
Black jeans laid flat on a pink rag rug. The knees have been mended with patchwork squares, 4x5 each, in shades of pink, blue, and yellow prints. There is also a repair at the cuff, black circled in pink.