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There is a box, in the corner of my sewing
room. It is a box whose contents have not

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seen the
light of day for many a month. Many crafters

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will be familiar with this box,
in all of its forms: There’s the ever-growing

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amorphous lump
that lies underneath your desk… The monster

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underneath your bed…
The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization

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and stuffed into your garage in the hopes
that you’d never have to deal with it again…

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This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING
PILE.

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The item that I’m pulling out of the style
pile box today is – oh man, look at this.

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Why isn’t this box getting any emptier!!
I have to stop adding stuff to it!

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Anyway, I thrifted this incredible sweater
for about $1 the other week – LOOK AT THE

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SLEEVES – but unfortunately it also had
a bunch of holes in it, which is probably

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why it was at the thrift shop in the first
place.

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So, today I’m going to show you how to mend
holes in knitted fabrics like this one.

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Now, what I’m going to need is thread in
a colour that matches the clothes I want to

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fix, a needle, and something kinda small and
round to lay the item over – like a water

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bottle. This is like, the proper thing that
you’re meant to use, called a darning egg.

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But something shaped like this bottle works
just fine.

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First, I thread my needle with the thread,
double it over, and I tie a couple of knots

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in the end.

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Then I turn the sweater inside out, and I
lay the hole-y part of the sweater down on top of the bottle.

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First thing that I’m
going to do is to hand-stitch all the way

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around the hole’s edges.

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I do this by working my needle up and down
through the knitted stitches that are already

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there, which will help to make this mending
pretty much invisible.

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Once I'd sewn all the way around the hole,
next I’m going to sew a kind of lattice

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across the hole, gently pulling it closed
as I go.

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So here's the first part where I’m going
across the hole, weaving my needle up and

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down through the knit like this.
I pull the thread all the way through, and

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then I head back in the other direction.

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And I keep doing this until I’ve gone across

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the hole.
The hole is definitely getting less noticeable!

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To make the hole really disappear, I’m now
going to go up and down over the hole, like

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this.
So, I go up,

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and then I go down... working

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my way over where the hole used to be!

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When the hole is totally closed up, I tie
a knot in the end of the thread, and I do

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this by slipping my needle underneath a thread
at the back, pulling the thread through until

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there’s just a small loop left, like this,
and then I push my needle through the loop

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and I pull the thread through to make a knot.
I repeated this a couple of times just to

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make the knot a little bit bigger, and then
I cut off the rest of the thread.

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And, the hole is closed! Flip the sweater
around to the right side, and you can hardly

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even tell that there was even a hole there.

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I LOVE this sweater, and it’s big ol’
70s style sleeves! I’m very excited to wear

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it out and about.

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By the way, would you guys be interested in
a “thrifted lookbook” of some sort? I’ve

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had a bunch of amazing thrift hauls recently,
and I wouldn’t mind sharing them in the

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form of an outfit video. I did a few outfit
lookbooks last year, and they’re really

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fun to make! So, let me know!

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Thanks for watching! I hope you all learned
something, and I’ll see you all in my next

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video! Bye!

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Thank you so much to all of my Patreon supporters
who help make these video possible! To become

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my Patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria.