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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 Tutorials, Knitting Tips, Sew Ins, Yarn Projects, Knitting Tutorial

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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How to Swiss darn - Donna Wilson Swiss Darning Patterns, How To Use A Darning Loom, Swiss Darning Tutorials, Darning Stitch, Swiss Darning, Stitch Step By Step, Embroidery Mending, Knit Techniques, Clothing Repair

Swiss darning is a great way of creating a near-invisible mend in a knitted fabric. These written instructions are intended to be an additional reference that you can use alongside our Swiss darning video tutorial. All you’ll need from your Care & Repair Kit is a darning needle and a strand of yarn. You’ll also

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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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