there's a hole in my sweater

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

does anyone know a good place to get a hole fixed in a wool sweater? i just discovered mine has a wee hole in the front. if it unravels any more you'll be able to see the color of my bra. >.< i think it can be sewn up (re-knit?), but i have no idea where to take it, and since i don't knit, i'm afraid to do it myself. help?

Comments

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

If you can't find anyone local, try posting to baystatecrafter and seeing if you can find a friendly knitter/crocheter to fix it?

[ron_newman]

I don't know if Eleni of New York does this, but can't hurt to bring it in and ask her.

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

yeah, eleni did this for me before. and you could tell afterwards, although i really didn't care too much because i loved the sweater and my goal was just to not see skin underneath...you can try it.

eleni

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

where's this?

Re: eleni

[ron_newman]

on Elm Street, a few doors away from the Burren

Re: eleni

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Re: eleni

[ron_newman]

more specifically - next door to Diesel. (I couldn't remember exactly where until yesterday when I dropped off some dry cleaning for her)

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Any dry cleaner with a seamstress can do this, but it's a hard repair to disguise--you'll probably be able to see evidence of the hole if you look closely, and depending on the weight of the sweater, it will be more or less obvious.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what i'm worried about. it's not a huge hole - i didn't even notice it until this afternoon when i actually looked at myself in the mirror in the ladies' room - but it's right in front. it's not a heavy weight sweater and it doesn't have, like, a cable knit or anything, so i was hoping the hole could be kind of sewn up without too much scarring, as it were. but i don't know anything about knitting and figured i'd ask.

[ifotismeni]

this kind of thing often depends on the kind of hole, believe it or not. if a thread ripped that can usually be easily disguised, but things like moth damage can be very hard to disguise. that's because a ripped or pulled yarn is just one thread as it were, while moths eat a lot of surrounding threads... so you have to bind all of them to each other. it can be a real pain.

generally when my light-knit sweaters get moth or yarn damage, i just sew them up myself using a similar color thread etc. if this is a super-formal sweater, this damage might render it a casual-only.

[ifotismeni]

btw, good time to mention to everyone: store your wool sweaters with cedar blocks or mothballs. moth damage makes baby jesusme cry.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i have cedar blocks. maybe they need to be replaced, tho.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

You can also reinvigorate them by sanding I think.

[ifotismeni]

have you scraped them in the past year or so?

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i didn't know you had to. i'll have to try it. i have some sandpaper, at least.

[kelmit.livejournal.com]

Fill it with straw?