Mending and Baking

Todd brought me his jeans that had belt loop rip off of it (leaving a small frayed area) and asked me if it can be mended. I like a good challenge so I gave it a try. I remembered seeing a stitch called “darning stitch” in a vintage embroidery book, and I figured it must have once been used for darning (…and a bit of googling proved me right!). Anyhow, here’s the little hole in the jeans mended with darning stitch and I’m about to re-attach the belt loop.

I’ve been baking dark & white chocolate chip cookies lately. My cookies look a lot better (rounder and more evenly sized) now that I have a perfect ice cream scoop (I found it for $0.99 at thrift shop — it’s totally great, simple solid metal construction …unlike modern ones that are metal plated plastic with bulky rubber handles :O) for making dough balls with.