Mending clothes

I now have three books on creative mending/darning. They all seem to include a lot of jeans. Maybe I should go and buy myself a pair of pre-damaged jeans so I can fix them.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MarthaJeanne&deepsearch=mending

(My husband needed my advice on framing photos today. That art store has great textile books in both English and German, so I was glad to oblige. I think I bought the first one there, too, and somehow they all end up on his bill.)