Moth holes and Christmas balls...

Having discovered I was a knitter, one of my colleagues asked me to help restore a jumper of him, with particular sentimental value. He told me it had very large moth holes. I assumed he was exaggerating a bit and that it would be easy enough to repair...


That's just a part of the holes...

Anyway, I set to, back patching behind the larger, wider holes as it was the only way I could reconnect the tatters. Unfortunately, I didn't have an exact colour match, and my trip to the local wool shops wasn't anymore successful. Whether by design or wear and tear, the colour was most definitely a faded version of itself. So I combined a grey DK with a royal blue 2 ply to get the closest match I could. My first successful attempt at combining colours to create a new one (I got the idea from the Tanya Alpert book). Unfortunately, one hole fell in the middle of a colour strip that I couldn't match with anything, so I had to re-knit an entire strip and sew it over two areas to hide this.

My colleague repeatedly insisted that he was not worried about the final outcome and, although I'm happier with it than I expected it to be, I'm still not sure this is a good enough patch job. But I'm going to show it to him tomorrow to see what he thinks...


This weekend, I have mostly been infusing my old, battered Christmas baubles with new life by knitting each of them a kitsch 'Christmas jumper' to use up some of my scrap yarn...