Darning tutorial

Visible mending has been growing in popularity over the past few years. Who doesn't enjoy being able to repair a garment they love to give it a new life?! A someone who dislikes clothes shopping, I am all for making the clothes I have last as long as possible. Not only does visible mending renew your clothes, it also give them a fresh new look.

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Step-by-step photo and video tutorial about scotch darning - a technique that helps us to repair clothes with visible mending and invisibly.

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.

Download And So To Embroider leaflet 39, pattern darning. What makes an interesting piece of pattern darning, how to experiment with designs and threads.

Threadbare clothes have history, so should you mend them by hand or machine? By Meg Stively.

Collingwood-Norris Mending on Instagram: "Adding pattern to your darning is great fun, and my book includes a whole chapter of patterns, as well as advice for creating your own. . Practice is an essential part of learning any skill, and probably doesn’t get talked about enough. No one is perfect when they learn something new! . My new (bigger and better) materials kit to go with my book will allow you to practice the darning, swiss darning and cuffs and edges repair techniques in the book…

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…

Visible Mending DIY: step-by-step tutorial on how to darn knits using a darning loom.

Japanese darning stitch is a variation of a running stitch for filling. Traditionally it is used for darning in sashiko and boro embroidery. In modern embroidery, a Japanese darning stitch can fill extensive areas and create a beautiful geometrical pattern. Click to learn more about this practical embroidery stitch of Pin for later!

I've darned quite a few things before, but not knits and not with a mending loom. Since the materials were new to me, I figured it would be best to start with a small project like a woven sock mend. ⁠This was an easy mend that I was able to stitch from start to finish in under 30mins. After mending my sock, I moved on to a sweater. If you've ever wanted to give a mending loom a try, here's a step by step tutorial on what you'll need as well as how to use it.

How to use a Speedweave loom to mend your clothes In this blog you can learn step by step how to mend a hole in your clothes with a speedweave loom. This special mending mushroom comes with handy hooks to make the meding easier than with a regular mending mushroom. Which materials do you

Creative visible mending projects, darning and Swiss daring, and creative mending techniques.

Last Friday I made my way up to Retford, Nottinghamshire, to stay with Louise Presley, owner of Hope & Elvis. Louise and her husband Nigel were very welcoming and made me feel right at home, ma…