Hand darning a child’s dress

What I did:

Before

My clients’ daughter had received a hand-me-down dress from her several years older second cousins. It had one inch-long rip and a few smaller holes.

Child's dress with plaidish skirt. Almost invisible rip in the top of the skirt part of the dress, in the middle between two yellow horizontal stripes.

Before: the one-inch rip is just barely visible in this photo: it's in the middle of the skirt part of the dress, mid-way between the two top yellow horizontal stripes.

closeup of child's plaidish dress showing rip in the fabric

Before: closeup of the biggest rip

closeup of plaidish fabric, showing one yellow/navy darn on the right and on the left, a small hole in the orange part of the fabric

Before: someone had previously darned some older holes. An example is the yellow/navy darn on the right. On the left, there is a small hole in the orange part of the fabric

After

I used close to matching threads to hand darn all of the holes that hadn't already been darned.

green/orange/navy/yellow plaid-ish fabric with a green and orange darn in the center

After: the biggest hole, darned in green and orange

closeup of plaidish fabric with an orange darn on the left and a yellow/navy darn on the right

After: the orange hole on the left is one of my new darns; the yellow/navy darn on the right is one of the previous darns

plaidish fabric with green darn

After: a green darn

plaidish fabric with orange darn

After: an orange darn

most of a child's plaidish dress, with barely visible darn (green/orange) in the middle top of the skirt

After: zoomed out, the darns blend in fairly well.