Mending a hole in knitting

Learn how to fix moth holes in sweaters and other knits with our simple guide. Mend garments seamlessly and extend their life effortlessly.

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…

That is some satisfying sewing sorcery.

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.

Our mission at The Fibre Co. is to provide you with yarn for projects you are proud of. Once you’ve made those projects, we want to teach you how to take care of them so that they live a long and happy life. One way that you can do this is through mending holes in your handknits. Holes are inevitable with any handknit,

It happens to the best of us. Moths. Rips. Holes. I was gutted to see that my Goodale (pattern link here) has been under attack from the wee beasties. I immediately washed it (and a load of othe…

This is a real live story of how I helped my friend not stab herself (or others) . . . in other words, how to fix a hole in your knitting!

Threadbare clothes have history, so should you mend them by hand or machine? By Meg Stively.

Darning is basically small-scale weaving. It isn’t difficult but like anything else, it takes practice but is incredible satisfying. You will need to buy a darning mushroom, although I have…