How to Repair a Knit Scarf

The term darning is often associated with socks, but the same technique works to repair a hole in a favorite scarf. By first laying a foundation row of stitches, and then weaving between them, you close the hole and protect the scarf from further damage due to unraveling. This skill keeps slightly-damaged knitted wear out of the landfill, making this a green project as well.

Instructions

Thread a length of similar weight and color yarn as the scarf onto a darning needle.

Spread the scarf over your work surface to isolate it. You need to work over an area of undamaged knitting around the hole. Leaving a 6-inch tail, insert the needle through the scarf from the back to the front, about 1/2 inch from one side of the hole and 1/2 inch below the bottom of the hole. Hold the tail with your fingers and take small straight stitches in a straight line up to 1/2 inch beyond the top of the hole. Continue to straight stitch, bringing the needle from the back to the front, then the front to the back, moving it 1/4 inch closer to the hole.

Make straight stitches as you reach the hole, but draw the thread all the way across the hole. You're making long stitches that span the hole vertically, with at least two or three small vertical stitches on top of and below the hole. The rows of stitches should be 1/4 inch apart. When you reach the other side of the hole, continue with rows of small vertical stitches until you've reached 1/2 inch beyond the hole. When you've finished the vertical stitches, weave the end of the yarn through several stitches, then cut. Thread the other tail of yarn and weave that end into the stitches as well, then cut.

Thread another length of yarn onto your needle. Leaving a 6-inch tail, insert the yarn through the first stitch you took, then weave the needle in and out through the stitches horizontally. Continue with this weaving, moving up horizontally through the vertical rows.

Weave in and out through the stitches when you reach the hole. Each stitch across the hole will have several horizontal rows going across it. Continue weaving until you've reached the last row of vertical stitches. How tightly you place the horizontal stitches depends on the tightness of the weave of the scarf. For a tightly knit scarf, you might need more than one horizontal stitch through each vertical stitch. For loose knit, one stitch through each may be enough.

Weave the ends of the horizontal yarn into the stitches, as you did with the vertical, and cut.

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