Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair

Overview

“Now it’s time to learn about duplicate stitches and how they can reinforce your work. It is a very handy stitch for strengthening a worn and weak area of your knit. Also, it can be a beautiful decorative stitch, and many knitters use this to almost embroider designs over the top of their knits. The reason why I love this stitch is that it’s really cute, and it looks so great in many textures. I’m going to walk you through on a chunky knit first, so you can see the stitch enlarged first, then I’ll show you on my socks, which is much finer work.”

In this video lesson The Endery addresses the topic: Reinforcing with Duplicate Stitches. Swiss Darning, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair. Extend the lifespan of your knitwear garments by developing your own mending style with colorful stitches.

Partial transcription of the video

“Reinforcing with Duplicate Stitches. Swiss Darning In this lesson we're going to be looking at a totally different mending stitch called duplicate stitch, and it's also called Swiss darning. And this is going to help reinforce weak areas on your knits. This is also a really great decorative technique, but we won't use it for decoration, we'll use it for a repair tool. So, for this method, I'll show you on this knitted swatch, because I want you to be able to see the stitches in a really large scale. So, here we have a knitted swatch that I made, and here you can see these beautiful V shapes...”

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Course summary for: Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair

• Level: Beginner
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• 4104 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (3h 51m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Sewing, Textile Design, Upcycling, Weaving