Jeanna Wigger and Mary V Morton are the authors of Stitch it, Don’t Ditch It.

Mary direct messaged Jeanna when Mary heard Jeanna on Check Your Thread podcast. They teamed up and wrote this really helpful book about mending via hand sewing.

As a sewist, you would assume mending clothes is the focus of this book. 

What Mary and Jeanna have created is a resource for anyone to mend not just clothing but any textile or object they want to give a second or third life to.

Stitch It provides all basic hand sewing skills and mending techniques to repair garments by hand.

Skills are presented with instructions for both left- and right-handed menders, with accessible line drawings accompanying each skill.

The book includes indispensable explanations of fabric types and construction, to guide readers in learning about their clothes, and how those factors influence each repair.

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