Diagnose Your Damage and Make a Mending Plan | Live Session Recording

Learn how to diagnose your damage and make a mending plan. Join editor Kate Larson in this recording of her live session to talk about fabric, yarn, and making great mends.

More mending resources from Kate:

• Creative Swiss Darning Tutorial (Duplicate Stitch) https://farmfiberknits.com/must-know-mend-creative-swiss-darning/
• Build a Basic Mending Toolkit https://farmfiberknits.com/build-a-basic-mending-toolkit/
• Tutorial: 3 Easy Woven Darns to Save Your Knits https://farmfiberknits.com/3-easy-woven-darns-to-save-your-knits/

Here are the main topics covered so you can jump right to the section you are looking for:

0:00:31 Intro
0:03:06 Consider your fabric
0:04:00 How bad is the damage?
0:05:29 See the mend or not?
0:06:34 Choose a method
0:08:36 Duplicate stitch example
0:10:00 Tools for duplicate stitch
0:11:51 Setup and yarn
0:14:41 Darn with like on like
0:16:59 Woven mends
0:18:10 Another knitted mend (elbow)
0:21:50 What if there's a hole?
0:22:53 Tools for woven mends
0:25:42 Sampling
0:27:23 Mend placement for stretch
0:32:01 Embroidered mends
0:37:03 Just try it
0:38:38 Q&A
0:39:56 Should you stabilize the fabric?
0:43:41 Work on back or front of fabric?
0:45:50 What to do with really felted fabric?
0:47:53 Knit a patch to place instead?
0:50:08 Thanks for joining us!

About Kate Larson: Kate Larson (she/her) is Senior Editor of Farm & Fiber Knits. For nearly as long as Kate has been handspinning and knitting, she has been helping others find their paths as makers and forge deeper connections with the landscapes that produce the wool and cotton, flax, and silk that they hold in their hands. While Kate has published a book, many articles and patterns, and several instructional videos, she especially loves celebrating the work of other fiber folks. The editor of Spin Off from 2018–2025, she directs spinning events in addition to editing Farm & Fiber Knits. If you can’t find Kate, she’s most likely in the barn having a chat with her beloved Border Leicester sheep.

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