Having a few basic sewing techniques in your budget mum arsenal will prolong the lives of your family’s clothes and potentially save you lots of money.Sites like WikiHow and eHow are invariably useful resources when you’re trying to do your mending, and I highly recommend checking them out.

Here are a few worthy tutorials to help you tackle basic mending chores:

Patching up jeans

http://damselindisdress.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/patching-jeans-cute-method/

http://www.ehow.com/how_902_patch-jeans.html

Hemming trousers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A209008

http://www.ehow.com/how_2281295_hem-trousers.html

Replacing a button

http://www.ehow.com/how_4604_sew-button.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Sew-a-Button

Darning socks

http://www.ehow.com/how_648_darn-sock.html

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/03/darn_it.html

Mending split seams

http://damselindisdress.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/mending-101/

http://www.ehow.com/how_113353_mend-split-seam.html