Online Darning Workshop
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Hello friends,
For the past year or so I have been really into darning. It is just another type of embroidery in a way, so of course I’d like it. Give me a needle and some thread and I’ll love it. I even like sewing on buttons. :-)
Often, when I share pictures of my darning, I get asked if I teach this online and now I can finally say YES! So if you would like to learn how to darn you knitwear (and other things) in a visible mending kind of way, then check out my new online Darning for Knitwear workshop.
The more darning I do, the more I love it. Not just the fact that darning something means that it can still be used. But also the meaning that gets sewn into the garment or whatever it is. A garment becomes special when you have spent time darning it. You use your creativity to pick the colours and shape and stitches to take it out of the ‘destined to be discarded’ trajectory that is built into so many of our clothes.
That pair of cheap socks from the supermarket that maybe you were going to throw away, now they stay in your wardrobe instead of ending up in landfill.
Last year I darned a sock that had a pretty big hole in it. The hole was so big that I thought I couldn’t fix it. But I did fix it and now when I wear that pair of socks it always makes me smile. :-)
In the workshop we will go through three darning methods, one of them is knitting specific but the other two can used for other types of fabric too. The workshop is suitable for beginners, so you don’t need to know any embroidery stitches already.
Check out the Darning for Knitwear workshop here.
I hope you have a lovely weekend. :-)
x Carina
Some Things I Enjoyed This Week
I’m still spotting the odd cluster of poppies here and there! :-)
I had the pleasure of looking through a preview copy of the new embroidery book by Jo Avery, Modern Crewel Embroidery* and it is full of happy colours! I’ll be posting more about this book on my blog in a few months.
One of the supermarkets here in the UK has started selling a dessert called Chocolate & Salted Caramel Sundae and Oh Em Gee, it is so delicious!
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