Visible darning on a wrap-style sweater

What I did:

Before

My client had a favorite sweater, wrap style, which had developed many small holes.

Brown knit sweater sleeve, with hole/run in it

Before: a hole in the sleeve.

hole in brown sweater, skin visible through hole

Before: another hole

Hand gripping holey sweater with darning egg inside (wood of darning egg visible through the hole)

Before: a hole (through which you can see my darning egg).

Brown knit fabric with hole in it (hand showing through loose threads)

Before: another hole

After

My client asked me to make the mends visible. I picked out a few color options based on what she'd told me she was looking for. Among these, she chose a lovely persimmon color, which works well because it's different enough that the mends are quite visible, but also is in keeping with the earthiness of the brown sweater. The holes were small, so I decided to darn the sweater rather than doing patches. Since the sweater was a very fine knit, I used just two strands of embroidery floss rather than yarn.

olive brown knit fabric with persimmon colored darn. Darn is shaped kind of like a cross.

After: One of the darns (there were many, but this one has a particularly cool shape).

visible persimmon colored and rectangular shaped darn on a brown sweater (closeup of one darn)

After: another darn

Brown sweater with visible persimmon colored rectangular mend, shown with window in background

After

Armpit of brown sweater, worn by person, with small rectangular shaped and persimmon colored darns

After

person holding part of the visibly mended (with persimmon thread) brown sweater

After

visible persimmon colored and rectangular shaped darns on a brown sweater

After

hand holding up sweater with visible darns (persimmon colored, rectangular, on brown sweater)

After

Closeup of darn on armpit of brown sweater (visible darn -- persimmon colored)

After