How to sew a hole on knitwear – inconspicuous and creative darn methods

The content of the article

• How to sew a hole unnoticed
• How to sew a hole on a sweater
• Darn
• Embroidery
• How to sew a hole in a T-shirt

Sooner or later, every person is faced with the problem of leaky things, including knitwear.

How to sew a hole unnoticed

Knitwear – elastic non-woven textile fabric. Products made of it differ from most woven ones in greater plasticity and elasticity. This significantly increases comfort during their operation. Household knitwear is divided into the following categories:

• linen (women, men, children, sports underwear);
• light top (blouses, skirts, bathrobes, pajamas, women’s suits);
• warm, athletic top (sweaters, cardigans, ski and tracksuits);
• stockings, socks;
• scarves;
• faux knitted fur;
• batting.

There is one universal and very fast way that will help to mask a flaw in any category of knitwear. To do this, you need a hand needle and thread of a suitable color. Step-by-step instruction:

1. Thread the eye of the needle, tie a small knot. Through the hole, pass the needle inside out, leave the bundle there, do not twist the knitwear.
2. Start sewing the hole with stitches, grabbing one at a time, then the other edge.
3. Finish the seam, pull the thread to the extent that the thread goes into the seam, becoming invisible from the front side, while not pulling the fabric. You can always stretch the seam to the sides to straighten the thread a little.
4. Take the needle inside out, fasten the thread.

How to sew a hole on a sweater

For large knit products, for example, for sweaters, woolen socks and similar clothes, it is better to use such repair methods as:

1. Darn. This method is classic for repairing knitwear. The degree of invisibility of the result depends on the size of the hole, the material itself (silk or other delicate fabric will be very difficult to darn imperceptibly), the skill of the seamstress. Often darning is used to repair clothes in not very noticeable places. At the same time, the method copes with the task perfectly – it will help to sew up a hole made in a knitted sweater.
2. Embroidery. The method allows you to turn the place where there was a hole into a decorative element – embroidery. The method involves two stages: creating the basis for embroidery and decorating directly. First, you can darn a hole with ordinary threads in color, and put embroidery on top of them. It is also possible to glue the adhesive-based material from the inside and decorate it. Another option is to patch a thing. A patch is glued onto the spider web, after which it can be embroidered from above. Virtuosos can simultaneously darn and form a pattern. The method helps to make an original garment out of a flawed thing. The downside is that you need to spend more time on this method, pick up a picture and execute it.

Darn

To darn a hole in a knitwear, you will need threads in the color of the fabric of the product, a hand needle, a “fungus” or other darn tool:

1. Before starting work, pass a needle with a thread around the hole so as not to pull off the material. In the process, you can not touch this thread, and after just pull it out.
2. To sew up a hole, use a darning tool, begin to form a net from threads of a suitable color, repeating the pattern and indentation, as in the knitting of a product.
3. At the end, securely fasten the thread, pull out the basting.

Embroidery

Reliably, at the same time, you can sew a hole beautifully using embroidery. Prepare in advance a “fungus” for darning, a hand needle, threads for darning and embroidery, a pattern for embroidery, if necessary:

1. First you need to sew up the hole using the darn method, use a thread to match the product, the needle and the “fungus”, follow the steps from the above instructions.
2. From above, embroider according to the prepared pattern, try to select such a pattern to completely close the darn place. Often the embroidery is “brought” to entire sections of the knitwear.

How to sew a hole in a T-shirt

To gently sew up a hole, including on your favorite T-shirt, you will need a very thin needle (for example, for beading), unnecessary tights or a nylon stocking that is as close as possible to the color of the T-shirt, thread threader, iron. Step-by-step instructions on how to sew a hole on a T-shirt:

1. Pull a thin thread from the stocking.
2. Thread it with a needle threader, do not tie a knot.
3. Start collecting edges with a needle, catching loops. Take one loop at the top and bottom, then tighten the stitch. Work from the front. Knitwear try not to pull too much.
4. At the end of the work, bring the needle to the wrong side, make sure that there are no unhooked knit loops, if necessary, pick them up.
5. Fasten the kapron thread with a few stitches, cut it.
6. Flatten your t-shirt, iron the repair site through the cotton fabric from the inside. From temperature, the kapron thread will change shape, thereby fix the knit in the molten form, without tightening.