Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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Any ideas for this hand knit cardigan? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Droggelbecher@lemmy.world to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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I can sew and darn, and knit from scratch, but I've never re-knit a hole before.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Use a needle and thread and draw that hole togetherish.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a kind of plan C, plan B being weaving a lil patch of fabric over it, and plan A to re-knit the unraveled fabric. I don't know how to do planA though!

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Adding to this, I want it to look as close to the original as possible, because my great-grandma, who died before I was born, made the cardigan.

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

The knitting/repair/mending communities of reddit are very good at this.

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 0 points 11 months ago

this looks promising. I've seen a bunch on YouTube https://youtu.be/AVVawL1LD6Y

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

also wondering how to do this!

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago

here's a post where I collected several knit hole repair videos

https://lemmy.zip/comment/21504099

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey! Did you manage to repair it? :)

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I honestly have been pretty swamped and haven't even tried yet

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what it means to be swamped. But I can also be really slow to get crafty stuff done haha

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm not sure whether that's an actual phrase! There's been a lot to do for me lately, and I didn't have much time for hobbies and relaxation, is what I was trying to say.

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It is an actual phrase now! \(^.^)/