#swiss darning

[narwhalsdisguised]

Found this beautiful lamb's wool Lyle & Scott sweater vest at a flea market last weekend! Been wanting a sweater vest for a while and finding one in the colours of the trans pride flag was just perfect.

It had a few holes so I decided to try out Swiss darning, and I think it came out pretty well! I couldn't find any info online about Swiss darning on ribbing, though, so I'm not sure if that's even possible (please let me know if you know!), so the holes in the ribbing are fine with regular 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

[janerhoadesart]

I absolutely love these socks. However, it only took a few months to wear a hole in the toe.

But luckily catching a worn spot before it turns into a hole is a much easier mend with Swiss darning! With some scrap sock yarn, I just followed the existing threads in the worn spot to “re-knit” the area.

Mending what you have is always more sustainable and cheaper than simply throwing them away and getting new ones. Especially with hand knit socks, I want to preserve them as long as possible!

[little-homestead-in-the-suburbs]

Working on some visible mending tonight. Ran a bunch of my mending pile through the wash, and started working on a pair of sweatpants that needed the elastic waistband redone.

Took out the original stitching and elastic, trying out a cross stitch to re-seam the band closed. I'll then rethread the drawstring back in, probably with an added hole to allow it to tie like my scrub pants do.

Pictures are the front and back views of the first half of the cross stitch seam. Front shows slanted stitches, back shows vertical stitches. New stitches follow the old stitch lines.

Other items I saw just swapping the clothes through the wash and dry:

- fleece zip jacket that needs the collar reattached. Possible I started to take it apart for tailoring, will decide when I reach it

-most of my jeans and jeggings needing either reinforcement, patching, or minor top stitching repair, a couple that I think I planned to hem shorter. My hip bags tend to wear on the leg seams, might put a grosgrain ribbon down the outside leg seam from hip to knee.

-So many pairs of socks needing darning, some is actually holes, some are thin and will become holes

-t-shirts with with either minor holes or popped seams

-Some towels that honestly I'll probably just take to my local dog rescue.

- The diy dog crate cover for one of my portable crates, need to fix a front corner that tore at some point.

[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

[heavymead0w]

Mending on a sweater my best friend gave me in college

[mahamayax]

[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.