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Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post.  I hope you can... Swiss Darning, Mending Clothes, Make Do And Mend, Visible Mending, Sew Ins, Techniques Couture, The Invisible, Knitting Tutorial, Knitting Techniques

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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Darning Methods: Swiss Darning | Heather Storta Scotch Darning, Swiss Darning, Duplicate Stitch, Mending Clothes, Knitted Items, Visible Mending, Repair Clothes, How To Work, Knitting Tutorial

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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