Visible mending knitwear

Advice for visible mending, including how to make sure you're using the right needle, how to choose colours for visible mending, and how to know if a garment or darning yarn will be durable. This is one of several blogs answering your mending and knitwear repair questions

Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post. I hope you can make some sense of it. I have used it twice before, once for a bachelor friend, to fix a hole in his Sunday best sweater, and the other for another friend whose puppy had chewed a hole in her husband's brand new sweater. Oh dear. In the interests of the popularity of both the puppy and my friend I had to make that mend as un-noticeable as possible. The…

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Skye | slow stitch club 🪡 on Instagram: "Another look at the cuff repairs from my last reel. I loved working on this jumper; it belonged to the owners Mum which always adds an extra beautiful layer to the story, and I feel so lucky to have been asked to give it a new lease of life. . . . . . #mendingmatters #nothingnew #repairjoy #slowstitching #slowstitchclub #darning #cuffdarning #visibledarning #repairyourclothes #lovedclotheslast"

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