How Do You Repair A Granny Square Afghan

Hither is the sorry state of a honey vintage granny stripe blanket. Information technology'southward been with me for almost twenty years and is a favorite to snuggle up on the couch with. The kids also drag information technology around and take it to bed, so it'southward sadly needed a few heavy washings. Yay! for acrylic on that one, but it's taken a beating.

This granny stripe afghan has started to unravel from the bottom up. I should have intervened right there and stock-still it or at to the lowest degree put it in the to fix pile, which grows every twenty-four hour period it seems. But instead it stayed in utilise, and of form, kept unraveling. Now two rows are starting to come apart, presenting the complicated challenge of needing to sew together into and through the row above.

And so I set out to try to repair the crochet stitches. This repair was a lot of trial and error. Follow forth with me if yous similar and keep in mind if ever yous demand to ready your granny square or granny stripe coating.

First, I unraveled the lose stitches on the bottom row and joined the broken yarn. I used a magic knot join as I just did not have enough yarn to do a Russian join. I was able to hide the knot. Right from the start let me say, if you have the same yarn or very similar, just use new yarn and don't try to spare what you have in the coating. Some of the yarn was frayed so badly, I needed to remove a section and I didn't have enough yarn. To recoup, I went down a hook and made the concluding cluster have simply two stitches. I could have started the whole project i hook size down from recommended, but I figured that out at the end!

Next, I crocheted iii dc in each infinite across to recreate the clusters.

iii Slip Stitches upward the side to connect it to the border and travel upwards to the next row. At present I need to start working in the row above, a piddling tricky.

Enter the yarn needle to salvage the day! I threaded the working yarn through the needle and went through the chain sew together in the border of the row above the row I would exist repairing and so turned the work.

Excuse my fuzzy yarn, I am a well-loved blanket and may have been abused in the launder machine a bit 🙂

I needed to make a working loop so I went through the same stitch I simply threaded through again.

And then I made my first cluster in the commencement space in the row below.

Take loop, will travel! Next I threaded the loop through the dc cluster stitches in the row in a higher place and and then threaded the working yarn through after. You can likewise use your crochet claw to grab your working loop and pull it through. This might go a little faster.

From there information technology was only rinse and repeat and connecting the working yarn where it broke off.  I had to redo information technology a few times due to running out of yarn  and ended upward using a smaller hook (US H) to go a tighter tension, catastrophe up with only enough for a a cluster of 2 dc at the end instead.

So hither it is, my fixed granny stripe coating! I am seeing some things I will do different for next time, but in the grand scheme of a full size coating, information technology works. Remember to wash those vintage goodies on frail or by manus.

Have you ever attempted a crochet or knit repair? I'd love to hear in the comments how it went.

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How Do You Repair A Granny Square Afghan,

Source: http://www.knitcrush.com/how-to-fix-an-unraveled-granny-square-or-stripe-blanket/

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