How to Darn and Mend Your Sweater - 8 Different Ways | The Daily Sew

There are many different ways you can go about fixing holes in a sweater and this video will show you eight of them. All are easy enough to do and won’t take much time.

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[TheDailySew]

4:36 OK, I apologize for any confusion and misinformation. You do not need an odd number of spokes across the hole. You cannot get an odd number of spokes across a circle as someone pointed out. Since you are weaving around and around and around from the center out, it will work out fine. Again, I was obviously confused, sorry ‘bout that

[Jdyyys]

The darning egg brought back a memory of my Grandpa darning his Sox. He used a light bulb as his “”darning egg”. He was very frugal, having come out of the depression 😊

[debrapaulino]

Your tutorials are wonderfully simple and presented. Just got a book in mail about mending. Really puts fun into a hole and tear.

[lisajayne]

Hi, thank you so very much for all your darning ideas xx I absolutely love old sweaters better than new xx so I adore this video for helping me keep my oldie jumpers xx❤

[stevemumford]

I like the 'Stiff' record label badge!

[hjertesager]

Hahaha, it made my morning, that your first mending method was attaching a badge - and then a broch to make the look 😅🤠👍 But also otherwise a very helpful, and entertaning, tutorial indeed, thank you very much 😊🍀🌸🌻🌺👍

[UniversalEngineer]

Loved this! Thank you for the variety of techniques. Thank you for the clear instruction. 👏👏👏

[ginnawall]

You are adorable! Very pleasant voice, very clear instructions, and so helpful! Thank you

[fragginNinja]

Thank you for the video, with your help I was able to save my 5 year old's favorite hello Kitty sweater!

[karinturkington]

Wonderful instructions! I have wanted to know how to do these techniques. Thank you so much. Beautiful work.

[superfriendlyalpaca]

I love how you demonstrate each technique and show how there's no single right way to mend a sweater! Gonna try the basket weaving technique right now! :-) <3

[CarolynHugensmith]

I bought a sweater on clearance and on the first washing, found a small hole. It is a very fine knit, so I knew I would be using a visible mending method, but which one to choose? I am a crocheter, and had seen another sweater with a scattering of fabric flowers at the shoulder. So, my idea was to crochet flowers to scatter at the shoulder, with one, single flower covering the mended hole in the middle of the sweater. I chose a variegated pink yarn, that will make me a cute Valentine's Day sweater. Thank you so much for the inspiration!

[c.m.]

Thank you for the advice and guidance. Looove your Cuff Top. I made one two years ago out of a Merchant & Mills very lightweight navy linen and it is by far my favourite top to wear for any occasion! Your fabric choice is perfect!

[charlotteeo]

Thank you so much for this video! My dad wears a lot of wool jumpers and they all have armpit holes from my dog nibbling at them, so ive decided to repair them amd this guide was really helpful!

[kambriamorris]

This is awesome! Do you have a link to the felting items you purchased?

[bujiknits]

any links to how to crochet mending? I'm not much of a crocheter, mostly knitting, but it sounds interesting. I do have an egg which is probably over 100 years old. but I have also used a small lightbulb. very enjoyable video...thanks...meg

[bettyparker]

Thank you, it is great. I’m going to try this.

[jenniferdas]

Coukd you please show how to mend the cuff of a machine made sweater? I have one that has two broken stitches and I’m not sure how to secure them. I think reknitting is probably over kill.

[katmcd_ART]

I have a cashmere sweater I need to mend visibly. But what yarns can I use? Does it have to be cashmere?

[scadium]

Hello, thanks a lot for this great video! Any idea on how I can repair the edge of a thin sweater sleeve where the thread is starting to fray? Many thanks.