Welcome

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.

Modern Mending Link to shop

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.

Modern Mending link to intro blog post "Mending Clothes For The Modern Era"

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.

Fashion Illustration of women of various body types

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.

Modern Mending Link to blog "Can Hand Illustrations In Sewing Tutorials Bring Joy"

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!

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