Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending which can be edgy, brand new, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four quite simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. As well as, the book addresses the way in which mending ends up in a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany every how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally improper selves, and he or she examines the ways by which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.