#swiss darning

[heavymead0w]

Swiss darning stars on this crazy green cashmere hoodie I got for like $3 at value world when I was 19

[the-bramble--patch]

solarpunk aesthetic week day 2!! Have my patched sweater. Some of the patches cover up holes and some stains. I still have some stains to go.

The method is swiss darning :) here's my zine if you wanna learn how to do it.

[swallowsummer]

Why is this so addictive?

[dognonsense]

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swift darner device being sold by the original creator instead of a knock off somewhere else. want one of these one day very badly will be game changing in fixing holes

[gonestarroaming]

I wish there was a way to have mended knit cuffs not to wavy. Chain stitch, running stitch, and swiss darning were my go to here to maintain the stretch. It does actually match the lettering elsewhere on the shirt.

[peilinsirpale]

Sometimes I'm lucky and find yarn that matches near perfectly. Mended with swiss darning/duplicate stitch in the heel and under the ball of my foot

[joestrummen]

wow swiss darning is so straight forward and relaxing once you have the hang of it <- guy who after two years still doesn't really have the hang of it

[strawberrysalamanders]

Swiss Darning

from Mending Life: a Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina and Sonya Montenegro

[possums-against-cops]

darn socks 🧦

i’m not very good at swiss darning but there was a pretty big hole in these socks so i just had to try. i started with the dark green yarn but i didn’t like how loose and crooked the middle of the hole was so i ended up going back over it with the more yellow green to make a more sturdy patch.

[mahamayax]

[heavymead0w]

Mending on a sweater my best friend gave me in college

[strzyggus]

Another wip as I'm incapable of doing one thing at a time

I also have no socks without holes, ups.

You may recognize the socks from this post. They're my favourite and they belong in trashbin, but I'm going to ship-of-theseus-ed them so hard

[gonestarroaming]

Fixed it when it got thin and before it wore a hole. Much warmer now. Bigger stitches are much better. Took as long to do the all the big yarn stitches as it did to do the small dark green alone.

[tempestclerics]

[ID from alt: A pair of purple and black socks with patches of blue visible mending on the heels and one of the toes. The second photo shows the backs of the socks, showing the blue mending in different styles on the backs of the heels. The third photo is a close up on a patch of Scotch darning. End ID]

I used these socks as kind of a sampler of different darning methods—there's a little bit of sashiko over threadbare areas, some swiss darning over actual holes, and I tried some Scotch darning for the first time on a bigger patch on one of the heels.

[the-fibre-stuff]

Long term or quick fix?

 Quick fix find the whole loops that are exposed (or the broken yarn goes through) and run a safety pin through those so they can’t ladder down.

Long term gets a bit philosophical, but what I do is take matching yarn (if you didn’t keep any for mending get as close as you can. if you can’t get reasonably close, go completely different: if it’s going to be noticable anyhow, make it look intentional) and Swiss darn (duplicate stitch) like for any other knit. Go 3-4 sts before the break and start tracing the path of the yarn with your mending yarn. (Just like if you were weaving in the ends. With the yarnovers it’s worth going down a row and then back and forth instead of straight across, to avoid carrying the yarn at the yarnover where it will show). Continue tracing the path of the yarn through where the break is. Be extra careful there to make sure you don’t split the yarn in the stitches that you’re working through. Go another 3-4 sts after the break (again, you can double back somewhere else to avoid the yarnover).

If you’re not following the path of the yarn exactly, considering making sure that you split the yarn with your mending yarn instead of following it exactly, because that will help anchor it in place.

Question however: is that one broken strand or two? My advice still holds, but it is tricker to do if it’s more than one row.

alright @the-fibre-stuff and fellow knitblrs

i have a lace shawl. i have a snapped thread in said shawl. what's the best way to keep it from unraveling?

[no2da]

i don't want to mend socks anymore. why do so many of my socks need mending

like perhaps just stop wearing out please