{"id":2127,"date":"2020-08-26T06:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:41:42","slug":"swiss-darning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/swiss-darning\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss darning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Swiss darning is like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darning#\/media\/File:Enc_swiss_darning.jpg\">this<\/a>. You can use it to fill in holes in a knit while still retaining stretch, unlike &#8220;sewn&#8221; (regular) <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darning\">darning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few months ago, I found a cashmere <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loro_Piana\">Loro Piana<\/a> sweater and a felted wool hat in the trash. To those of you with offended sensibilities, they weren&#8217;t deep in the trash, they were in a little paper shopping bag beside the trash. Although I like dumpster diving, I&#8217;m not up for rummaging through gross stuff. I mostly look for things on the top or left out on purpose (i.e. the person knows they are too good to get rid of but doesn&#8217;t want them anymore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seemed that the sweater had been thrown out because of a few holes \u2013 totally fixable, of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2927-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2927-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2927-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2927-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2927.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Too small for me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"524\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200705_201934.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200705_201934.jpg 524w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200705_201934-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><figcaption>First attempt, on the sleeve. Gauge is too large.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200711_120614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200711_120614.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200711_120614-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200711_120614-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Second attempt, on the shoulder. Much better! This is probably as good as it gets on machine knits. (Hand knit items have a larger gauge that&#8217;s easier to work with.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to give this sweater to sibling C. I hope it gets a lot of good use in its second life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss darning is like this. You can use it to fill in holes in a knit while still retaining stretch, unlike &#8220;sewn&#8221; (regular) darning. A few months ago, I found a cashmere Loro Piana sweater and a felted wool hat in the trash. To those of you with offended sensibilities, they weren&#8217;t deep in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/swiss-darning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiss darning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}