1 00:00:00,429 --> 00:00:05,089 There is a box, in the corner of my sewing room. It is a box whose contents have not 2 00:00:05,089 --> 00:00:07,829 seen the light of day for many a month. Many crafters 3 00:00:07,829 --> 00:00:11,940 will be familiar with this box, in all of its forms: There’s the ever-growing 4 00:00:11,940 --> 00:00:15,060 amorphous lump that lies underneath your desk… The monster 5 00:00:15,060 --> 00:00:18,730 underneath your bed… The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization 6 00:00:18,730 --> 00:00:22,050 and stuffed into your garage in the hopes that you’d never have to deal with it again… 7 00:00:22,050 --> 00:00:25,960 This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING PILE. 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:39,160 The item that I’m pulling out of the style pile box today is – oh man, look at this. 9 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:43,590 Why isn’t this box getting any emptier!! I have to stop adding stuff to it! 10 00:00:43,590 --> 00:00:47,890 Anyway, I thrifted this incredible sweater for about $1 the other week – LOOK AT THE 11 00:00:47,890 --> 00:00:53,079 SLEEVES – but unfortunately it also had a bunch of holes in it, which is probably 12 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:55,000 why it was at the thrift shop in the first place. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,969 So, today I’m going to show you how to mend holes in knitted fabrics like this one. 14 00:00:58,969 --> 00:01:03,260 Now, what I’m going to need is thread in a colour that matches the clothes I want to 15 00:01:03,260 --> 00:01:08,890 fix, a needle, and something kinda small and round to lay the item over – like a water 16 00:01:08,890 --> 00:01:14,470 bottle. This is like, the proper thing that you’re meant to use, called a darning egg. 17 00:01:14,470 --> 00:01:16,990 But something shaped like this bottle works just fine. 18 00:01:16,990 --> 00:01:21,000 First, I thread my needle with the thread, double it over, and I tie a couple of knots 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,189 in the end. 20 00:01:22,189 --> 00:01:27,909 Then I turn the sweater inside out, and I lay the hole-y part of the sweater down on top of the bottle. 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,880 First thing that I’m going to do is to hand-stitch all the way 22 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,580 around the hole’s edges. 23 00:01:33,580 --> 00:01:37,560 I do this by working my needle up and down through the knitted stitches that are already 24 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,180 there, which will help to make this mending pretty much invisible. 25 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:52,520 Once I'd sewn all the way around the hole, next I’m going to sew a kind of lattice 26 00:01:52,530 --> 00:01:55,700 across the hole, gently pulling it closed as I go. 27 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,659 So here's the first part where I’m going across the hole, weaving my needle up and 28 00:01:59,659 --> 00:02:03,659 down through the knit like this. I pull the thread all the way through, and 29 00:02:03,660 --> 00:02:06,620 then I head back in the other direction. 30 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,880 And I keep doing this until I’ve gone across 31 00:02:15,889 --> 00:02:19,239 the hole. The hole is definitely getting less noticeable! 32 00:02:19,239 --> 00:02:23,549 To make the hole really disappear, I’m now going to go up and down over the hole, like 33 00:02:23,549 --> 00:02:25,960 this. So, I go up, 34 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:32,060 and then I go down... working 35 00:02:32,069 --> 00:02:34,469 my way over where the hole used to be! 36 00:02:34,469 --> 00:02:39,219 When the hole is totally closed up, I tie a knot in the end of the thread, and I do 37 00:02:39,219 --> 00:02:43,909 this by slipping my needle underneath a thread at the back, pulling the thread through until 38 00:02:43,909 --> 00:02:47,999 there’s just a small loop left, like this, and then I push my needle through the loop 39 00:02:47,999 --> 00:02:52,049 and I pull the thread through to make a knot. I repeated this a couple of times just to 40 00:02:52,049 --> 00:02:55,779 make the knot a little bit bigger, and then I cut off the rest of the thread. 41 00:02:55,779 --> 00:03:00,059 And, the hole is closed! Flip the sweater around to the right side, and you can hardly 42 00:03:00,059 --> 00:03:02,579 even tell that there was even a hole there. 43 00:03:07,379 --> 00:03:12,849 I LOVE this sweater, and it’s big ol’ 70s style sleeves! I’m very excited to wear 44 00:03:12,849 --> 00:03:13,699 it out and about. 45 00:03:13,699 --> 00:03:18,209 By the way, would you guys be interested in a “thrifted lookbook” of some sort? I’ve 46 00:03:18,209 --> 00:03:21,650 had a bunch of amazing thrift hauls recently, and I wouldn’t mind sharing them in the 47 00:03:21,650 --> 00:03:26,129 form of an outfit video. I did a few outfit lookbooks last year, and they’re really 48 00:03:26,129 --> 00:03:28,079 fun to make! So, let me know! 49 00:03:28,079 --> 00:03:31,959 Thanks for watching! I hope you all learned something, and I’ll see you all in my next 50 00:03:31,959 --> 00:03:33,010 video! Bye! 51 00:03:33,010 --> 00:03:38,139 Thank you so much to all of my Patreon supporters who help make these video possible! To become 52 00:03:38,139 --> 00:03:40,339 my Patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria.