Broken Rubber Band Fix

Broken rubber band Fix

 

Broken favorite shirt

     

"Broken" rubber band   

              

Fixed Favorite shirt

How much is a favorite shirt worth? To a little girl, a lot.  My youngest daughter wore it till the little elastic that held the shirt on her shoulders broke.  For a while she kept trying to wear it anyway.  She would take the elastic string and try to wrap it around the button.  It would hold together long enough for her forget it had broken.   Then her shirt would start to slide off one shoulder or the other again.  She would then try again to fix it.  By the end of the day she close to tears with frustration. After some persuasion I convinced her to put it in my mending basket to fix it for her.

I was not worried about being able to fix her shirt.  I knew I had the exact same elastic string that worn out among my supplies.  However, when I looked for the elastic I couldn’t find it the box I thought I had put it in.  I then looked through all kinds of containers I might have put it in and still no luck finding it.  Then I thought.”What am I going to do?”  Then a thought pops in my head of a broken rubber band that had broken earlier. I had not thrown it away since this happens to me often.  I just knot the broken ends and keep using the rubber band in my hair.  I went to the bathroom and retrieved the knotted rubber band. 

“Wahoo!” I say.

After some seam ripping, I pulled out the bad end of the elastic in her shirt. I sewed the knotted half of the rubber band inside the shirt because I hope the knot will help keep the elastic from being pulled out of the shirt.

Materials

Broken rubber band

Total Cost

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