I love elbow patches, especially to extend the life of a sweater. You could also do knitted patches - knit some rectangles in whatever stitch pattern you think would be durable and sew them on
How innovative of you. I was thinking the whole time, why not crochet circle patches in matching yarn to sew on, and I see that someone else suggested something similar with knitting. But as you know, crocheting circles is so easy. Loving your channel.
Me too, I liked the fabric design and colour choices, I just felt the patches were a bit small. You could have gone a bit bigger and maybe less "pointy topped" ovals, if that makes sense, and more the traditional shape. Thanks for sharing!
Like you, the ones that closely match the color of the sweater looks best. I didn't care for the floral patch on the maroon sweater at all. The pink lattice on the gray? I think a similar plain gray would be a whole lot better. If you wear a scarf or shirt under your sweaters, the printed, floral or oddball color is going the severely limit your options if you don't want the patches to clash with your shirt or scarf. Otherwise, the elbow patches are very cute and could even be made a bit larger. Unfortunately, my elbows don't get worn out on my sweaters. I usually get small holes from our cats catching their nails in the yarn and freaking out whiletrying to get free. It happens a lot since we have 8 cats that we have rescued when they were stray, starving or freezing kittens that showed up on our porch or was born during a tornado under our home. (The stray mom didn't stick around but about four weeks with the tornado kittens.) If you can think of a way to repair those holes, please let me know. Blessings!
Ugh, that stinks when you get pulls in a sweater! Perhaps darning to fix those? I don't know how to do it myself, but I know there are several tutorials available on other channels.
If it were just pulls, I could fix that. These are where the kittypet claws have torn the yarn and left a hole. I'll have to look up repairing holes on knitting because I only know how to crochet.
The water bottle trick is very useful, thank you!
I agree with your point about the ones that the color contrast is too much. I really liked some of them - others - not so much. You do wonderful work.
I love elbow patches, especially to extend the life of a sweater. You could also do knitted patches - knit some rectangles in whatever stitch pattern you think would be durable and sew them on
I haven't heard of knitted patches before (just mending), that sounds great too!
@@stitchnfiction I find it can add the needed extra strength but still be less obvious if you can colour match
How innovative of you. I was thinking the whole time, why not crochet circle patches in matching yarn to sew on, and I see that someone else suggested something similar with knitting. But as you know, crocheting circles is so easy. Loving your channel.
I loved the colours you went for! As good as neutral matching patches are I adore beautiful contrasting patches.
Aw, thank you! 😊
Me too, I liked the fabric design and colour choices, I just felt the patches were a bit small. You could have gone a bit bigger and maybe less "pointy topped" ovals, if that makes sense, and more the traditional shape. Thanks for sharing!
Like you, the ones that closely match the color of the sweater looks best. I didn't care for the floral patch on the maroon sweater at all. The pink lattice on the gray? I think a similar plain gray would be a whole lot better. If you wear a scarf or shirt under your sweaters, the printed, floral or oddball color is going the severely limit your options if you don't want the patches to clash with your shirt or scarf. Otherwise, the elbow patches are very cute and could even be made a bit larger.
Unfortunately, my elbows don't get worn out on my sweaters. I usually get small holes from our cats catching their nails in the yarn and freaking out whiletrying to get free. It happens a lot since we have 8 cats that we have rescued when they were stray, starving or freezing kittens that showed up on our porch or was born during a tornado under our home. (The stray mom didn't stick around but about four weeks with the tornado kittens.)
If you can think of a way to repair those holes, please let me know. Blessings!
Ugh, that stinks when you get pulls in a sweater! Perhaps darning to fix those? I don't know how to do it myself, but I know there are several tutorials available on other channels.
If it were just pulls, I could fix that. These are where the kittypet claws have torn the yarn and left a hole. I'll have to look up repairing holes on knitting because I only know how to crochet.