Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Use a needle and thread and draw that hole togetherish.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks 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 5 points 4 weeks 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 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago

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

https://lemmy.zip/comment/21504099

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago

also wondering how to do this!