Visible mending knitwear

Visible mending knitwear: knitted mending methods, Tools and materials, Benefits, Inspiration and Resources. All you need to start mending!

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

Referring to herself as a 'Damage Detective', Celia Pym's artwork explores worn fabrics and repair, she is renowned for her exquisite, visible mending.

Reasons why you should mend your knitwear now!

We’ve all been there – you’re putting on your favorite sweater, hat, or socks and spot a dreaded hole! All hope is not lost, though! See our easy and fun visible knitwear mending how-to guide for quick tips & fixes

Patch it, mend it, or darn it—visible mending is hot! Transforming a worn piece of clothing with vibrant stitchwork offers a great way to show off your handspun yarn.

Explore some of my recent embroidery and visible mending repairs I've been making on old jumpers. Discover how I've started offering a mending service!

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…

In the second in our series on mending, we show you how to use Swiss Darning to repair a hole in a knitted fabric.

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Mending can be done in so many different ways when you make it visible. You can be as creative and colourful as you like, making it more fun and giving your clothes a new lease of life. And it reduces waste and saves money! visible mending

We’ve all been there – you’re putting on your favorite sweater, hat, or socks and spot a dreaded hole! All hope is not lost, though! See our easy and fun visible knitwear mending how-to guide for quick tips & fixes

213 likes, 6 comments. “can’t wait to teach this darning workshop at @tac-tile mountain 🧡”

Learn Visible Mending for knitwear with a how-to book, mending workshops, tutorials and kits. Start repairing your knitwear with our helpful materials and darning wool.

Discover all the beautiful visible mending projects I've been working on recently, including a Swiss darning repair and mending cashmere sweater project.

This is the best, most clear demonstration we’ve found of how to mend knits with this beautiful technique. Swiss Darning is also called Duplicate Stitching - it ‘duplicates’ each stitch so it blends in beautifully!

Discover our bespoke Visible Mending Knitwear service, that will help breathe new life into your old jumpers and cardigans. Find out more now!

Is Earth Month over yet? I wanted to sneak in one more “save” on the blog before ambling over to the new fabric stash. Do read through to the end, since I’ve included a couple of sundry stuf…

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