Have you heard of visible mending? It's the art of mending rips and holes to make them stand out as artistic features. Reddit had a great visible mending community that's unfortunately lacking on lemmy.

My pants always wear through the crotch before the legs. I want to recycle like that, but crotchless pants really aren't my style.

Its incredible what commercial sewing machines can do! They can sew on a button, but what they can't do is tie a knot. So the buttons will work themselves loose eventually. I need to fix a few thanks for the reminder.

Any tips on altering tshirts? Or recommendations on a good website for ideas? I have a bunch of nerdy, gamer, TMNT, bookish shirts that are all just basic Ts. I want to alter them into v-necks and other styles.

I used to have a book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt but I donated it a long time ago. It was great and I really wish I had kept it.