Swiss darning tutorials

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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!

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…

Finding a hole in your sweater doesn’t mean the end of your sweater. Taking just a few minutes to mend that hole will let you continue to wear your sweater for years to come. Those few minutes will…

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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Arounna Khounnoraj on Instagram: "Way back in my videos I have a tutorial on duplicate stitch/swiss darning and I should do another updated one. I’m using it for this split and I’m catching the loops on the top and bottom creating tiny ‘V’s. I like how it looks on the back - it goes through the loop of the pearl stitches. Let me know if you want a longer version☺️🪡 #swissdarning #visiblemending"

Add small details to your knitting using the easy embroidery technique Swiss darning. Learn how it's done with Gathered.