DIY Tetris patches

Sometimes you just need a quick and easy project to keep your hands busy so your brain doesn't go haywire.

I offer to you, one such project. It comes with the bonus of not having to spend more on clothes and keeping an item from the landfill. I love it.

Materials

• Iron-on patches

• Iron

• Torn item of clothing (or not)

• Needles and embroidery thread

• Scissors

How to

1. Cut out a Tetris shape big enough to cover the hole you need to mend, from the iron-on patches. You can make a quick template by making a square from some leftover paper and tracing it out multiple times.

2. Iron on the patch by following the label's instructions. Remember, you can always re-iron on a higher setting but you can't unburn your clothes.

   

3. Follow this YouTube tutorial to fill in each square of the tetris cube in a color of your choosing. https://youtu.be/oLDfDDUSFRM?si=FAz4z5adBSQAYhZR

   

4. Finish the Tetris shape by giving it a border in a contrasting color with a couching stitch or any straight line embroidery stitch you know and love. https://rsnstitchbank.org/stitch/couching-stitch