{"id":14823,"date":"2023-10-17T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14823"},"modified":"2023-10-16T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:12:28","slug":"mending-with-a-mathstodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/17\/mending-with-a-mathstodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mending with a Mathstodon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We noticed recently that there was an unexpected hole in a pair of The Australian’s trousers. Unexpected, because above the knee, nowhere near a pocket, and the surrounding fabric was in better condition than the hole would suggest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure I couldn’t achieve an invisible mend on a fine cotton twill such as this, so then it became a matter of considering Visible Mending – making the whole thing look deliberate and considered, rather than pulled together any old how. So, I asked, what sort of patch would you like?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Which is how I came to be messaging The Australian’s co-moderator on the Mastodon instance, “Mathstodon.xyz”, to ask for permission to use the header\/logo image he had sketched as the basis for an embroidered patch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did think of using the whole thing, embroidered on a larger piece of cloth, but I felt it would make the trousers a bit uncomfortable, so I am extracting the Mathstodon himself, and his counting frame, and I can always add more diagrams and formulae if the trousers wear in other places…<\/p>\n\n\n

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I wouldn’t normally use a hoop when I’m mending a pair of trousers, but it did make it much easier to keep track of where the darned bit was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mathstodon himself is cut out of grey quilting cotton with a slightly marbled print, and I’m going to attach him conventionally over the darn, first held in place with small running stitches and then with buttonhole stitch around his edge, and a few extra details on the inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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