A couple of weeks ago I had a customer approach me through the Loom app who had two jumpers that he loved but had been damaged by moths when he accidentally left his wardrobe door open one day.
One was a Vivienne Westwood jumper, orange with green back. The other was a Paul Smith jumper, Burgundy with navy and pink sleeves. The customer told me that he liked tropical flowers, in particular Medinilla Magnifica. So I designed him an embroidery design around this that could be broken down into smaller parts so we could use them across both pieces to disguise all the holes.
The Paul Smith Jumper had lots of little holes, three very obvious ones on the body and about ten on the sleeve. This was more than I had thought there would be from the original photos so we had to amend the design a bit from one flower on the sleeve to lots of small petals and leaves being blown across the sleeve to cover the holes.
The Vivienne Westwood, only had one large hole so we decided to pop the main flower over that, but add a little sprig of leaves on the shoulder to balance the design and ground the flower motif.
I started by stabilising the holes, darning in some hand stitches and ensuring that all the loops of the exposed knit were held.
There was also another little surprise hole and ladder on the back hip so we popped another little leaf set over that too.
I think the project went really well and the jumpers now truly look one of a kind, but more importantly are wearable again now which is the main point. The customer was really pleased with the result which I was delighted about so I look forward to making more pieces like this with Loom again.
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