Treadle Lane Mendinghttps://treadlelanemending.com/Repair notes from a flat in Walthamstow: darning wool socks, patching work trousers, keeping an old treadle machine sewing, and a monthly mending table.enA year of Saturday mornings at the monthly mending tablehttps://treadlelanemending.com/journal/a-year-at-the-mending-table/https://treadlelanemending.com/journal/a-year-at-the-mending-table/What people brought to our free monthly mending table in a community hall: split seams, hems, elbows, zips and one old bear, and why we teach instead of fixing.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTBringing a hundred-year-old treadle machine back into daily usehttps://treadlelanemending.com/journal/bringing-back-the-treadle/https://treadlelanemending.com/journal/bringing-back-the-treadle/The cast-iron treadle that came from a neighbour's clear-out: loosening decades of dried oil, a new leather belt, learning which way the wheel turns, and a first seam.Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMTPatching the knees of work trousers that are knelt in every dayhttps://treadlelanemending.com/journal/patching-work-trouser-knees/https://treadlelanemending.com/journal/patching-work-trouser-knees/Heavy cotton work trousers from a neighbour who gardens on her knees: patching inside or out, cutting patches from worn cloth, the treadle for seams, hand stitching.Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMTDarning a wool sock heel on a mushroom, one row at a timehttps://treadlelanemending.com/journal/darning-a-wool-sock-heel/https://treadlelanemending.com/journal/darning-a-wool-sock-heel/How I darn the worn heel of a hand-knitted wool sock: finding the edge of the thin patch, choosing yarn, laying the warp, weaving across it and not pulling tight.Sun, 26 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT