Make Do and Mend will bring out your thrifty side, revealing inventive ways to mend everything from clothes to bed linen. Make Do and Mend demystifies all those things your grandmother could do - from darning and patching to hemming and trimming. Taking items from the home and wardrobe, Katie Ebben teaches you easy ways to give your soft furnishings and clothes a new lease of life, whether patching the knees of your favourite jeans, disguising a hole in your cashmere cardie, lengthening curtains with a false hem or hiding the worn edge of a bed sheet with pretty ribbon trim. There are also plenty of ideas for customizing items and inventive ways to make use of fabric remnants. A glossary of terms guarantees perfect results for even the most inexperienced of seamstresses.