I have a summer top that I knit a couple of years ago. I really like it, and I often wear it. I especially like to wear to various knit events, so when I went to Maryland Sheep & Wool festival earlier this month, it was an obvious choice. Also, it’s rather warm in MD in early May (by Ottawa standards at any rate), so a knit, short-sleeved top seemed like a good idea. And it was.
Anyhow, after I came home, I washed it, and when I pulled it out of the water, I saw this:
As you can imagine, I was NOT happy. I really don’t know what happened. I mean, there are lots of things one could snag the shirt on – both at the festival, and also the zipper of my bag, I suppose, but I never noticed a thing.
I figured that I had to have a little bit of spare yarn from the same skein lying around somewhere. But how to find it? After rummaging through the stash, I identified three likely options. All Wollmeise (the top was knit out of Wollmeise, Sabrine), but of course none of them still had the label.
After careful consideration in bright daylight, I determined that the right-most scrap of yarn must be it. I believe the three colours are (from left to right) Pfefferminz Prinz, Neptune and Sabrine. They really are remarkably similar (and obviously I must like this type of colour, since I have 3 versions), but with good lighting, the choice was obvious.
I then set out to mend the hole. Luckily it was only one strand of yarn that had broken, so I duplicate-stitched that row, starting about 4 cm to the right of the hole, and then went through the hole, mending the gap, and then continued another 4 cm or so to the right of the hole. You can barely see it.
“You can barely see it” Correction: it should read “and it is invisible for everybody who didn’t mend it herself”.
Thanks, Fia! It’s easier to see/feel when holding it up close, but I really don’t think anyone would see it when it’s worn.