Our website is dedicated to teaching the beautiful art of repairing and customizing clothes through stylish & creative patterns as well as free tutorials.
SHOP UPCYCLED APPAREL & PATTERNS
NEW IN SHOP: The Upcycled Denim Apron is now available to purchase. Shop the selection of patches and appliqué designs to repair and embellish your favourite clothes.
A blog about sustainable DIY
We’ve researched and developed ways to creatively mend and customize your well loved clothes in order to have a minimum wasteful impact on the environment. The Modern Mending Blog offers free tutorials and tips to help you live a more sustainable lifestyle with a high sense of style. Click the link below to find out about how it started or scroll down to read our latest posts.
Patterns for all sizes
Because we all come in different shapes and sizes, each Modern Mending pattern is graded to fit all ages and body types. So whether you are a size 0 or 30, you can be sure that the design you’re adding to repair your clothes will look fabulous. Learn more about our passion for plus sizes in this post.
Beautiful hand illustrated tutorials
We want you to cherish the PDF patterns and tutorials that you purchase. For this reason, each steps in our tutorials are hand illustrated. Click below to see a few examples.
Leaders in Sustainable DIY
Reconnect with the objects that surround you through the lost art of mending and embellishing clothes. Modern Mending’s aim is to restore the tradition of repairing our clothes in a beautiful and modern way. This is SUSTAINABLE DIY at it’s best!