Swiss darning tutorials

Swiss darning is a mending technique that replicates knitting.It’s used for repairing worn out areas or holes in knitted garments. It’s a bit more tricky whe...

In the second in our series on mending, we show you how to use Swiss Darning to repair a hole in a knitted fabric.

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This week I'll talk about Swiss Darning. This darning method is most like knitting. It is essentially duplicate stitch, but with no base fabric to work on. It is quite fiddly, and time consuming to work. But it looks the absolute best in knitted fabric, so would be a very good option for a repair

Swiss darning is a great way of creating a near-invisible mend in a knitted fabric. These written instructions are intended to be an additional reference that you can use alongside our Swiss darning video tutorial. All you’ll need from your Care & Repair Kit is a darning needle and a strand of yarn. You’ll also

Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post. I hope you can make some sense of it. I have used it twice before, once for a bachelor friend, to fix a hole in his Sunday best sweater, and the other for another friend whose puppy had chewed a hole in her husband's brand new sweater. Oh dear. In the interests of the popularity of both the puppy and my friend I had to make that mend as un-noticeable as possible. The…

Swiss Darning is a brilliant little technique with many uses. In today's Tuesday Tip we'll look at Swiss Darning for a small repair job.

Swiss darning, also called duplicate stitch, is a technique where you trace the path of a row of knitting, covering the existing stitches.

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This is the best, most clear demonstration we’ve found of how to mend knits with this beautiful technique. Swiss Darning is also called Duplicate Stitching - it ‘duplicates’ each stitch so it blends in beautifully!

Duplicate stitches mimic knit stitches but are created with yarn and a tapestry needle. Use them to weave in the ends of your work or add a design.

Hello! Swiss darning, also known as duplicate stitch, is a really easy technique to learn and very handy to know. As the name suggests, it is used to reinforce and mend knitting, but is also lovel…

Collingwood-Norris Mending on Instagram: "Adding pattern to your darning is great fun, and my book includes a whole chapter of patterns, as well as advice for creating your own. . Practice is an essential part of learning any skill, and probably doesn’t get talked about enough. No one is perfect when they learn something new! . My new (bigger and better) materials kit to go with my book will allow you to practice the darning, swiss darning and cuffs and edges repair techniques in the book…

Learn how to ‘embroider’ over the threadbare areas on socks & knitwear by using a technique called swiss darning or duplicate stitch. This repair method is p...

Scotch darning stitch is one of the stitches used for darning holes. Watch a video tutorial and learn how to embroider it!