In this class, we’ll discuss when bad things happen to good, well-loved knits, and how we can fix them. We’ll discuss basic repair techniques, as well as yarn structure and picking yarn for projects to make our knits last as long as possible.

Experience needed: knitting, purling, decreasing

Homework: Please prep a swatch that you are comfortable making holes in! We will use this to practice the techniques before we move on to finished pieces. This can be an existing gauge swatch in stockinette, a new swatch, or a piece of existing knit fabric at a large gauge. (When I teach this class in person, I go to a thrift store and purchase a larger-gauge stockinette sweater and cut it into swatches for each participant.) In any of these cases, the swatch should be a lighter color so that you can see what you’re doing!

Materials: tapestry or darning needles, spare DPNs, 20 yards [18 m] of light-colored spare yarn, any handknit items that might need repair,

writing implement for taking notes

Tapestry or darning needles, 20 yards [18 m] of light-colored waste yarn, any handknit items that might need repair, writing implement for taking notes.