Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair
Playing with Color and Shape, and Developing Variations on the Same Stitch 4
A course by user4674986 surname4674986 , Creative Director
Joined November 2020
Extend the lifespan of your knitwear garments by developing your own mending style with colorful stitches
Joined November 2020
About the video: Playing with Color and Shape, and Developing Variations on the Same Stitch 4
Overview
“In this part of the lesson, I will show you a type of mend that is quite useful for difficult parts of the knit, such as the armpits.”
In this video lesson user4674986 surname4674986 addresses the topic: Playing with Color and Shape, and Developing Variations on the Same Stitch 4, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair. Extend the lifespan of your knitwear garments by developing your own mending style with colorful stitches.
Partial transcription of the video
“Playing with Color and Shape, And Developing Variations on the Same Stitch I've shown you some previous mends that you can do on a nice, flat knit and we're gonna start looking at mends that are in kind of awkward places such as this one here, which is in the armpit. This is a very typical place that jumpers can get holes and they need a special treatment. There's a specific mend that I like to do on the armpits that isn't actually as visible and it's done in a slightly different way. In traditional mending, mends are done on the wrong side of the garment to make them as invisible as possib...”
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Course summary for: Visible Mending: Colorful Knitwear Repair
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Areas
Embroidery, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Sewing, Textile Design, Upcycling, Weaving
A course by user4674986 surname4674986
Ellen Saville is the creative director and co-founder of The Endery, a knitwear clothing brand based in Lima, Peru, committed to creating sustainable pieces using leftover yarn from other productions. She is a sustainable fashion advocate, passionate about mending and creating a more sustainable culture in the way we consume fashion.
The Endery’s most recent projects include a collection for designer Lindsay Degen and an accessories collection for Anthropologie. Ellen also develops yearly hand-knitted collections for alpaca mill Inca Tops and has launched sustainable productions for brands such as Nike and Banana Republic.
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