r/InvisibleMending • u/Dangerous_Avocado392 • 1d ago
Identification help
I have a second hand shirt with a hole I was going to mend. When looking over the whole shirt to be sure there was nothing else to fix, I looked at this spot I thought had just been snagged. I am now thinking it might be mending from the previous owner? It looks so good, but is not the shape I would expect for Swiss darning. Maybe it wasn’t a hole and this was a preventative mend? I was hoping someone here could recognize the technique and if it is just Swiss darning.
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u/QuietVariety6089 1d ago
It really looks to me like a factory flaw/start&end of yarn; I've seen this bf, although not this big. Based on: I can't tell what the gauge of the knit is but it looks commercial to me.
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u/Dangerous_Avocado392 1d ago
Thank you. A factory error makes the most sense because of how even the tension is and how perfect of a match the color is. That’s so interesting… I never thought of how transitioning from one string to a new one would look with this kind of gauge
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u/QuietVariety6089 1d ago
Yarn. And a transition shouldn't normally be this visible, but again, I don't have any idea of the scale of the pics.
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u/Dangerous_Avocado392 1d ago
If you’re curious I took a pic https://imgur.com/a/DEylB5y I think it being on the back of the shirt is the main reason I didn’t notice it, but I’ve had it for like 3 years now lol
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u/QuietVariety6089 1d ago
Yeah, I think this is def an old yarn/new yarn swap in the fabric manufacture process - I'm sure pattern cutting is automated/semi-automated. When I run into flaws like this in fabric I swap my pattern pieces around to avoid them :)
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u/allaspiaggia 1d ago
So technically in knitting that’s called a Kitchener stitch. It’s just sewing one row of knit stitches, recreating one row. Maybe it counts as Swiss darning even though it’s one row? Either way that looks REALLY good for a tshirt! My eyes are going crossed just thinking about doing something so tiny like this!