Notes from the repair desk

Elbows, cuffs, and the second buttonhole down. In that order, every year.

Knitwear almost never fails at the seam - it fails where the arm folds against a desk. So we now knit the Beckett with a doubled yarn through the elbow panel, which adds forty pence and about four years.

Leather fails at the pocket mouth, because that is where a hand goes in with keys in it. The Rhône is now bar-tacked at both corners.

Buttonholes go because thread abrades faster than cloth. Nothing clever to do there - we just re-work them, free, and always will.