This is where the sleeve meets the body of the jacket, creating some interesting angles and bits and bobs of cloth.
indigo dyed cottons hand-stitched together
Block printed cotton stitched down
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 67
I'm running out of things to say about all this. I sewed some more stitches...
cottons pieced together to mend a torn jacket
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 66
Today I went back through and tied off all the dangling threads and finished the odd stitch that was left for later.
Visible mending using scraps of Japanese cotton
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 65
Here's the other side of the collar. Now that the collar is finished I can start to work on the sleeves.
day 64, stitch a day, 2017, visible mending
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 64
The other side of the collar
collar patched with visible mending
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 63
And this finishes up the collar.
visible mending using cottons hand dyed in the indigo vat
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 62
Filling in little bits and pieces around the odd corners.
block printed cotton using clay resist and indigo dye used in visible mending repair
Stitch a Day 2017, Day 61
Having finished the back and most of the front I've moved onto the collar which I've patched with scraps of clay-resist printed cotton that's been indigo dyed. There's also a small scrap of a handwoven cotton I picked in one of the water towns near Shanghai and a few other random bits that filled in the small spaces.