Sweater darning

A typical moth-hole. This was repaired from the wrong side (the inside) as a traditional darn, but with contrast darning wool.

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…

The Loewe prize finalist is teaching the world to think through objects.

Learn how to darn a sweater easily, all you need is a needle, yarn and an embroidery hoop! Darning a sweater is a slow relaxing process, not a chore to be rushed! Imagine the joy

Repairing the underarm of a sweater using darning for a hole, and swiss darning for threadbare areas. #VisibleMending #Darning #Swissdarning #SweaterRepair

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.

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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Check out this cool Norwegian sweater, which is a finalist in the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize competition and on display...