Greetings dear community, today I share with you a super special project, many times I have told you that I really like to knit with two needles but I don't always have the opportunity to do it because here the weather makes it difficult to wear sweaters, scarves or knitted socks , but I always try to make hats or small pieces of clothing for my amugurumis, but a few days ago my sister asked me to help her repair a shirt, this shirt had been part of a uniform at an educational institution where my sister worked, she he changed schools so he didn't want to lose the shirt, he took off the badge and it made a hole, then he put a cloth patch on it and it didn't look good because it was crooked, he decided to cover it with the new badge and it looked very bad because of the tilt of the fabric patch so she took it off and again the shirt was left with seam holes, she told me help me I don't know what to do to the shirt and it's almost new, so after much thought I decided I went to make a knitted patch, but I didn't want this to be a thick fabric so I made it with 1mm thread (the same one I use for crochet projects) and used two 2mm needles, so the result would be a not thick fabric and that it would not add more volume to the patch that was already on the shirt.
Materiales/ Materials
- Camiseta
- Hilos acrílico de 1mm en colores beige, marrón claro, azul, blanco, rojo, negro
- Tijera
- Hilo de coser blanco y aguja
- aguja de ojal grande
- alfileres
- Ganchillo # 4 (1.25mm)
- T-shirt
- 1mm acrylic threads in beige, light brown, blue, white, red, black colors
- scissors
- White sewing thread and needle
- large eyelet needle
- pins
- Crochet #4 (1.25mm)
Patrón/ Pattern
It is not my habit but this time I used a free pattern that I found on the Internet because I tried to turn on my computer and it got stuck when opening Photoshop to design, before going into despair with the broken computer I decided to use a free pattern, this is not for the technique that I used called Jacquard on two needles, it is a pattern for the cross stitch technique, the inconvenience that exists with using cross stitch patterns with the jacquard technique or knitting on two needles is that the stitches on two needles do not come out square, it is say the size of the stitch is always wider than it is tall so if squares are used instead of rectangles for a pattern the result of the knitted image ends up being flattened, however when I saw this pattern on the internet I just wanted to do it, it seemed to me beautiful, to use it I just changed the color of the cat's scarf to red and also increased the number of stitches and edge rounds, as well as included a simple pattern I made in the form of heart to cover the right space and that it would also look good with the red collar of the shirt. Then I share with you the Internet pattern, the modification measures and also the heart pattern that I made on a sheet of millimeter paper.
Patrón hecho por mi
To adapt the design to the size I needed to cover on the shirt I increased 5 stitches side and side and 4 rounds top and bottom. So I started to cast on 39 stitches with white yarn, I knitted 5 rounds with stockinette stitch and started the drawing with the corresponding colors, each stitch is a square in the pattern.
One of the tricks that I usually implement when knitting with jacquard technique is to separate the balls of yarn into small jars and divide the balls of yarn according to the largest and most spaced areas of the design so as not to have to cross the yarns from behind to very large distances, maintaining this order of jars prevents threads from tangling and changing threads is as easy as moving the order of jars.
Following the pattern is all there is to it, to start the first stitch of the heart pattern is made in the third round 7 stitches away from the cat.
In the last round, a closing round must be made, then the threads on the back must be tied and cut. With the large eyelet needle and black thread, embroider the cat's mouth and mustache. With a crochet hook and red thread, a round of slip stitches is made around the edge of the patch, in the corners I recommend making two chains to create a sharp corner.
Finally, iron the patch with a warm iron, not hot! Sew the patch to the shirt with thread and a sewing needle.
Resultado/ Result
Today the motivation was at its maximum and I managed to complete this project, while I was knitting my mom @yole was listening to the radio and there they said that today is International Cat Day, I didn't worry about investigating if they were really right on the radio but I felt happy to make a Kitten precisely today, my sister came with her children to spend the day with grandma so once I finished work I asked my sister @mayoly1 to model her shirt for my blog and she agreed and was very happy.
Imágenes tomadas con dispositivo Samsung A12. Portada editada en Canva
Pictures taken with Samsung A12 device. Cover edited in Canva
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