You are too kind! I'm glad you were able to mend it!

Oh that's wonderful!! So glad I could be of help -- and best of luck with the rest of the repairs!

I've offered to repair my sister in law's cashmere jumper which she was given as a birthday present. The hole is in the rib, I have a feeling it was from a security tag. I have an almost matching ball of yarn and matching 'thread' but as it's in the rib in wondering how to do it now. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

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I totally agree. Mending clothes attractively is a great hobby to have. I'm learning to do it. Thanks 😊

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Glad it was helpful! Best of luck with the repair!!

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I'm actually not sure why it's known as Swiss darning -- I'll have to do some research there. (I think a better name (more descriptive of the actual technique) would be duplicate stitch darning.) I'm glad it was helpful!

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You're welcome! I would leave them, and then after the repair weave in what you can -- and then if they're still long you could cut them shorter - but after you've secured them.

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I'm so sorry for your loss. How wonderful that you can save his sweater as remembrance.

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I don't have one showing the purlside facing yet, but you could turn it inside out and follow this to do the repair! Then weave in your ends on the inside instead at the end.

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Ah, when you have increases or decreases involved, then your hole might not be square. As long as you get the hole to follow a line of columns of stitches I think you should be able to perform the repair like I show here -- it might start as a shorter row at the beginning and widen as you go up, though, for example. When a hole occurs over an increase/decrease section, it can be tricky to recreate that fabric precisely - you might have to just repair and stabilize the hole as best you can in some instances. It sounds like you might have a run as well? Where one or more columns have intact yarn but the stitches have unworked? You would need to ladder those back to the start of the hole first before you repair the hole in that case. I hope this helps! Good luck with the repair!

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lol, I understood you! :-)

Yes, a nice square hole is the easiest to work with. Best of luck!!

No, you wouldn't need to for that small of a spot! I'd start an stitch or two from the hole and then work over the hole and end a stitch or two on the other side of the hole. You might not need to work any repair above and below if the yarn looks in good shape.

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lol! And I do that when darning myself - I thought it would have been confusing to do that in the video, though! :-)

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Hi! Yes - I'd weave in each tail using duplicate stitch heading away from the repair. I have a video that might be helpful, showing duplicate stitch tail weaves here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bs1llaiWubq9d5c.html

I don't know that I can teach English, but I'm happy to answer questions about darning!

@@HeatherStorta Thanks, I´ll try to explain it. If I have a an ordinary cloth sock, made of fabric. Could you teach me. Please? thanks

Totally not a stupid question!! If the hole is on the edge, you can still do this method - it just might be a little bit more tricky. You could give yourself a base of breakaway fabric (you can find it in sewing stores) to stabilize things and then remove the backing when done -- that might help!

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Yes, definitely you can do this with fine machine knits! You will need to use a thinner needle (and perhaps a magnifying glass) and take your time, but it can be done. There's a method to do this with a latch hook (I'll be filming a video showing that soon) that is the exact same repair, just using different tools - and that might be easier to perform on the fine machine knits.

@@HeatherStorta Oh, I'm really looking forward to seeing that video! Thank you

Wear and tear can cause holes - especially in socks! Or a snag unnoticed can turn into a hole through wear. Sometimes, but usually not often, the yarn can have a weak spot and wear really easily in a spot as well. Puppies and kittens can be a culprit too!! A sealed bag should be fairly good protection from that, though!

Yes, an embroidery hoop works well for larger flat pieces of knitting. The darning egg is handy for things like sock heels, though - where you couldn't get that shape of fabric into a hoop.

Yes, an embroidery hoop can be of help! Sometimes the knitting is too small to fit in a hoop, though (like sock heels or toes).

:-( That definitely makes it more tricky!!

You could certainly do that if you ran all the horizontal strands across first. You could use a crochet hook to ladder up each column. But you'd still have to use a tapestry needle to graft the last row to the knitting.

Since the darning adds some bulk, I want to be sure to not have many tails to weave in afterwards, adding to that bulk. You certainly can use shorter strands to speed up the process, and then weave the tails in afterwards if you wish!

Hi! Yes, I could have used a shorter thread! I wanted to be sure I didn't run out, though, so that I could do the whole repair with minimal tails to weave in at the end. It's one of those things where you tend to overestimate how much you need (but better to overestimate than underestimate!)

@@HeatherStorta Thank you for the response. I have never made a demonstration video, but if I were to I believe I would make a test video and ask somebody to watching for feedback. I think people watching this video are interested in learning the stitches, not how to bind off. Although I have watched the steps many many times, I am still not sure if the thread is wrapped around the ladder stitch, or between the two legs.

The ladder stitches are there to stabilize and provide a framework vertically (think of it as a vertical lifeline) and the repair stitches go around the two legs of the ladder stitch and then into the base of the stitch below, coming out of the center of the next stitch before going around the next ladder stitch. You could also use a dpn horizontally, or a horizontal lifeline on each row of the repair as your stabilization method. The key is to anchor on each side of the hole before moving to the next row so that the edges of the repair have no gaps, and having some method of securing the live loops in each row that you are making as you make them.