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Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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The zipper on my bag stopped working about a year ago. I had been trying to use it anyway but things kept falling out. I recently learned that hand stitching isn't that hard, so I went out and got a new zipper. Here's the old zipper for reference

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I love the contrast stitching

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Congrats, looks better than before! :)

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

Heck yeah, bring the neon!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Problem solved. Case closed!

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

They have it in the bag

[–] lama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

New one looks great!