Repairing Your Knits - Darning
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Darning is a strong, reinforced repair for a hole or threadbare area. In this video, I demonstrate a couple of the ways you can use darning to fix a hole in any knitted piece.
The playlist to see other knitting repair videos can be found here (more videos coming soon!):
• Repairing Your Knits
The yarn I used for demonstration is leftover worsted-weight scraps, mostly Cascade 220.
My silver ring is actually a knitting needle gauge, and can be found here: malojos.com/
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Kia ora, VeryPink Knits, greetings from New Zealand. I have taken up knitting again after a break of about 40 years, and every time I need to learn something, yours are the most helpful videos. Please understand how wonderful it is to have a generous knitting community online, and that you are such a significant part of this. Arohanui, big love, kia kaha, be strong and share your talent and clarity for many years to come. Sue Galvin, Christchurch, NZ.
as a young girl my mom taught me the first version you demonstrate. I haven't darned in (honestly) a good two or more decades! But I'm actually going to do some darning. Thank you so much for this terrific tutorial and all the tips.
You were reading my mind. Just last night I was thinking "I want to learn how to darn". Thank you for the video.
I am very glad for these videos on repairing knit items. Always great to have more than one technique on hand for repairing something you've worked hard on. I've mostly darned socks and done small sewn-on knitted patches on Goodwill sweaters. And since they were my clothes, and most of them were black anyway, I was not concerned with a bit of puckering or less-than-pretty patchjobs. Still, I found a lot of these techniques very illuminating. People in my family often come to me for textile repairs, and I'll be more confident in my skills now that I know prettier ways to repair a beloved item.
Phenominal camerawork!
I would definitely do the backside repair and and do the front separately to match. Using the pearls looks very strong, and its flat and comfortable.
I've just found your channel today and I need to say thank you.
Thank you for not playing that insidiously evil, rage inducing
ukulele+ toy piano music. I am convinced this music
can control the minds of a certain sect of society forcing them
to become suicidal and homicidal.
This will eventually cause
the downfall of Western Civilization as we know it.
Much blood will be shed and many will suffer.
Also, you have amazingly gorgeous eyebrows!
They're simply perfection.
And your hands? Beautiful, even though
I do find myself a bit envious of them!
I love the way you speak, as well. A very
pleasant voice.
I kind of think I have a girl crush on you.
Thank you! I am going to try picking up stitches on a favorite sweater with toothpicks!!!
Thank you for your advices. For the record, to darn socks, I use a billard ball. It belonged to my Grand Ma :)
great series! I cant wait for the patching episode. I had a stroller wheel eat a section of blanket and it still has a hole.
I'm so excited about this series!this is absolutely God sent!!! I have this blouse that's been in my drawer for months because I just don't know what to do, I love it buy every time I touch it I just make it worse. Lol thank you! Thank you!
Thank you for this- I needed a way to repair a throw blanket for a friend!
Thank you for the different suggestions on how to darn. Very useful.
my grandma and subsequently mother, use wooden mushroom shaped darning tool. very helpful tutorial!
We also had a darning mushroom: it had criss-cross indentations in the top to make it easy to line up your threads.
Good shit Stacy.
First comment!
Thank you for this video. I've been waiting for this since you posted in IG/FB. Lot's of love to you and your crew😍😘
Thank you for your clear explanations. On the darning one, would it not be a good idea to catch the loose knitted loops from underneath as you go? Just a thought. I use my grandma's darning 'mushroom'. A small handle with a metal dome on the top. It is great.
Thank you very much for your lessons. You are very good explaining, even for those who don´t speak English very well. I've learnt a lot with you! Now, I would like to know if you have any video to teach to repair the stiches, to be pretty, as you say. Thank you.
I absolutely love all your Videos...your fantastic...I knit as you talk..lol..Calming!
Great video! Really good to know those techniques.
Another great series! Thanks Staci!
When should I give up on my socks? I have more than one sock that has been patched multiple times. The rest of the sock is in good condition but the heel and ball always need to be fixed. Is there a way to make these areas stronger while knitting?
I look forward to Wednesday's every week! 😅
always be very helpful thank you so much for your hard work
Thank you for this video! I have a couple questions, if you have a minute.
1- You mentioned that the darning yarn doesn't need to match weight-wise with the yarn of the sock, is there a guideline on how different the weights can be? Or is that just up to preference/comfort?
2- When doing the feather stitch around the area to be darned, do you need to go into stitches from every column as you showed, or just make the stitches smallish?
I'm asking because the socks my husband is hoping I will darn for him are made of super thin yarn/thread.
I'm also planning to darn some of my store-bought socks, which are knitted with thin thread/yarn. I'm planning to do the feather stitch method, but with thicker yarn (maybe doubled or tripled thread), and I'm not going to make tiny stitches - I'll be skipping rows for sure!
@@froggydoodle808 I ended up using worsted weight yarn on my husband's socks and it turned out fine. But, he always tells me he has no feeling in his feet anyway, so I don't know that he's a reliable tester for comfort.
Thanks beatiful...Good Lucky.
If you were going to darn a hole in a pair of jeans, would you go about this in the same way? Or would you change something about it?
I don't have an answer for you, I recommend searching for a patching/darning video on a sewing website. I'm sure there are videos and helpful people on the sewing channels.
Jeans are woven, not knitted, so you would have to take into account the frayed edges and issues with unraveling. There are lots of denim repair videos out there, with varying levels of detail and difficulty. Don't get discouraged if the first few you find don't answer your questions entirely. (Most sewing videos also assume you have a sewing machine, so look specifically for "hand-sewing".)
Look for visible mending or sashiko mending in jeans. You'll really have some fun!
Could you do a tutorial on how to patch/repair a garter stitch? Is it even possible?
Staci, help! I think this is the best place to get an answer to my problem. I'm making a baby blanket, knit in the round from the outside in. The problem is that I pulled too hard on the border trying to straighten it out, and I ripped it!!! I'm more than halfway through the blanket and don't know how to fix it. I used a long tail cast on and the blanket is knit in garter stitch. Please tell me there is hope.
Oh, no! Susana, your best bet is to take the blanket into your local yarn shop for advice, there is no good general answer here. The fiber type in the yarn you used, the stitch, etc. - these are all factors that need to be taken into consideration. Good luck!
+VeryPink Knits Thank you for your quick reply. Sadly for my knitting, I live in Nicaragua and there are no yarn shops here. I'll store it for until I'm in the States (probably in a year or two).
Thanks a lot.
Always helpful thanks for what you do
I am practicing a lace pattern and was wondering, so the pattern uses about 365 yards of yarn I wanted to practice with cotton thread 20 400 yards (was given two so I am knitting them together so far looks pretty) and was wondering is there a difference in yardage it did just have a weird thought just now????? Totally just confused myself for a moment here... :( my thought now is WHAT???
How would one match stitches on a snag on a cashmere sweater?
Snags are different, this video will help: czcams.com/video/eRzuwimh9tw/video.html
lovely top, Stacy!
I'm struggling with this
I use a smooth rock for darning
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An apple or orange works in big socks :)
hey.. can you upload pocket type sweater pattern... please
I have one sweater tutorial with pockets here:
verypink.com/2013/11/27/easy-knit-sweater-jacket/
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