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Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post.  I hope you can... Swiss Darning, Mending Clothes, Make Do And Mend, Visible Mending, Knitting Tutorial, Knitting Techniques, Knitting Stitches, Knitting Inspiration, Sewing Techniques

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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Darning Methods: Swiss Darning | Heather Storta Scotch Darning, Swiss Darning, Duplicate Stitch, Mending Clothes, Knitted Items, Visible Mending, Repair Clothes, How To Work, Knitting Tutorial

This week I'll talk about Swiss Darning. This darning method is most like knitting. It is essentially duplicate stitch, but with no base fabric to work on. It is quite fiddly, and time consuming to work. But it looks the absolute best in knitted fabric, so would be a very good option for a repair

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Nineve on Instagram: "The next piece of our Swiss Darning lesson is how to fix a hole that is missing multiple rows of stitches. - We will eventually use both the previous stitches we learned in the earlier posts, but first we’re going to learn to prep the hole for darning. - We are going to lay down stabilizing stitches with colored thread.  This will guide our work, and then be removed when we’ve completed the darning. - But BEFORE that, we need to clean up the hole. Do NOT skip this step. - It feels counterintuitive to make our hole bigger by removing more yarn, but we NEED an even clean area to work with. - We need complete loops to stitch through, and most importantly, we need to be able to count our missing rows precisely. - Above are examples of correctly & incorrectly laid stabiliz Swiss Darning, Swiss Darning Tutorials, How To Darn Holes, Darning A Hole, Mending Clothes, Visible Mending, Fix It, Needle And Thread, The Row

Nineve on Instagram: "The next piece of our Swiss Darning lesson is how to fix a hole that is missing multiple rows of stitches. - We will eventually use both the previous stitches we learned in the earlier posts, but first we’re going to learn to prep the hole for darning. - We are going to lay down stabilizing stitches with colored thread. This will guide our work, and then be removed when we’ve completed the darning. - But BEFORE that, we need to clean up the hole. Do NOT skip this step…

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