I was pleased to remix the Turtlestitch project which I had previously used to fix my shirt and jersey to repair a torn curtain.

Sashiko is a Japanese embroidery technique to decoratively repair and strengthen old clothes. I had written a Turtlestitch program to stitch a spider’s web to hold fabric together.

I started by measuring some stabilising material to slip inside the curtain.The torn curtain material with stabilising material inserted and held in place with a few hand stitches.Sellotape added to help the embroidery machine frame hold the curtain material as I tried to make the embroidery reach the edge.Now clamped into an embroidery frame.Begin stitching the spider’s web.Halfway through the radial threads.Almost completed the ‘rungs’.Finished!Hanging in the window.From beginning to end around an hour’s work one morning – having had the code already written and just adapted it to make a 180 degree web rather than a full circle.

Now I can relax, knowing I am unlikely to make that tear worse!