Visible mending of a sweater: 1

Date:

What I did:

Before

My sweater had several small holes already, and then I spilled something on the sleeve. Rather than removing the stain, I decided it would be more fun to do visible mending. The first step was to cut out the stained part.

sleeve of beige sweater with large part chopped out of it — Before: the chopped sleeve.

After

white, green, gray, and red striped knitted patch on beige background — After: I knitted a contrasting striped patch for the large piece I had chopped out of the sleeve.

Beige sweater closeup with light green darns — After: I used contrasting light green yarn to darn the holes.

lower and sleeve part of beige sweater, showing red, green, and white striped contrasting patch, and green contrasting darns — After: various visible mendings, together.