How to Fix a Yarn Sweater
The process of sewing up a hole in a knitted sweater is called darning. When a sweater gets a hole, it loses threads and unravels. When you darn a sweater, you are sewing the knit stitches closed again with a new piece of yarn. Don't throw away a sweater or relegate it to the donation bin when you can patch up a hole and make the garment as good as new. Mend your favorite knitwear with this old-fashioned skill.
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Instructions
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Turn the sweater inside out. Slip the darning egg under the fabric and stretch the hole gently over the egg.
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Insert the darning needle under the middle rungs of the ladder of V stitches that makes up a column of knitting. Start one column over from the hole, and pick up the rungs starting two stitches down from the lower right edge of the hole and ending two stitches up from the upper right edge of the hole. Pull the yarn gently, leaving a 3-inch tail at the bottom of the column.
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Pull the yarn across to the first column broken by the hole, which should be the column right next to the one through which you just sewed. You worked up that column, and now you're going to sew down. Pick up as many rungs as you can working down that column, then skip over the hole and pick up a few more rungs underneath it. Pull the yarn gently to bring the edges of the hole together.
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Sew across the hole in this manner, working up one column and down the next. End with a row in which you are able to pick up every rung, which should be one row over from the left edge of the hole.
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Cut the yarn, leaving a 3-inch tail. Use the darning needle to weave the tails along the back of the sweater. Work one more row with each tail if you like, just to reinforce the mending.
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