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20+ creative ways to hide stains on clothes

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Don’t throw it out! Sharing a list of 20+ creative ways to hide stains on clothes for both kids & adults, including many no-sew mending ideas.

20+ creative ways to hide stains on clothes

Stains are the #1 reason I hear people give for throwing clothes out instead of keeping them or donating them, and of course you can’t resell them with stains. I’ve been meaning to make a list of ideas to cover them up for a while and finally got it all organized! Some of these include tutorials, some are just for inspiration, but I think anyone can do all of these simple mends and keep their clothes from filling up a landfill.

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Specific to kids clothes, I have an e-book with several tutorials and exclusive patterns, see more details about it here!

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All of these tutorials and inspiration photos are for leaving the clothes as-is and covering up or embellishing the stain. You can also consider completely refashioning the garment and cutting out the stain, or chopping it up and upcycling it for something else entirely:

Refashion round-ups:

Upcycle round-ups:

20+ creative ways to hide stains on clothes

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