Clothes Plasters

Last year when I was doing a project for uni about haberdashery I found some ribbon that I loved but at the time couldn't afford. Anyhoo long story short I went to buy that ribbon today and stumbled across something I'd forgotten about but are relevant to my upcycling endeavours; Clothes Plasters.

Clothes plasters are iron on patches for embellishing or repairing clothes. Here are a couple of examples...

I think they're really cute and I love the packaging! I just hope that they're actually big enough to cover holes because from the picture they look pretty tiny.

I personally wouldn't use them to repair my clothes because they're just not my cup of tea but I do think they're a fanastic way to encourage kids to repair clothes rather than throwing them away. All kids know that when they get a cut they get a plaster to make them better, by calling the iron on patches clothes plasters it will hopefully teach them that quite often clothes can be made better too.