Written by Andrelyn Izquierdo.
Clothes repair journal entry.
Image by Lenka Bartuskova from Pixabay.
For the past year, I've been having the issue of my clothes that have drawstrings through them either missing, taken out, or uneven. It's been a journey, for sure, trying to figure out how to fix them. Some of the clothes, I gave up on since they didn't fit me anymore. But there have been a couple of brand new ones that need some help. Venturing through retail stores, I came across some crochet hooks with the sizes of 4.0mm and 4.5mm at the Dollar Tree. The hooks seemed small enough to get through the hole size of the pants and hoodie that I had laying around in the house.
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Today, I saw the bundled hoodie along with the pajama pant and knew that I had to make another attempt at fixing both of them. Starting with the smaller size hook that I had on hand (the yellow crochet hook featured in the photo), I tried to push the needle through the hole and through the waist line of the pants in hopes to grab the out-of-place drawstring with the hook and bring it back through outside of the front of the pant. There was a bit of struggle using this specific needle, so I went with the next size up that I had, the 4.5mm pink crochet hook.
With determination, I was able to grasp onto the string with this size hook with a quick wraparound along with a tug and the string stayed attached to the hook bringing both pieces back out through the hole. One done!
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Onto the next, the entire string from the brand new hoodie was completely removed. At first, I tried tying a knot from the beginning of the string to the hook and then pushing it through, but the knot was too large being that the string was very thick. The hook size was too small to do a wraparound like I did with the pajama pants fix. So I straightened the hoodie top and angled the string edge with my fingers to push it through. This took awhile, but not too long as I kept straightening the area where I wanted the string to continue passing without getting stuck. This method worked up to the halfway point.
Then I pushed the hook through the other hole of the hoodie while bunching the material at the top of the hook without losing the needle entirely through the hole. This helped me latch onto the string with the crochet hook and quickly pulling it through with one hand while the other hand was straightening out the head portion of the sweater. Voila, It worked! This took me fifteen minutes to accomplish.
If you find yourself having the same issue, the crochet needles found at the Dollar Tree are packaged in a 2 pack with the brand name Crafter's Square. The size of the needle needed for this fixer upper project depends on the size of the hole within the article of clothing you are working with. That is all to be purchased. The rest depends on setting aside an allotted time to get it done along with some patience. Best of luck to you.
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Andrelyn Izquierdo
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