Next up, we’re making spokes! For you see, these glorious, cheerful little flowers are all built on a set of spokes.

This is part of what makes them so suitable for use on knits. Because instead of going through your fabric over and over and over again (which has a tendency to constrain the fabric and make it less stretchy), you just build a framework of spokes and then weave the fancy bits on top of those (rather than stitching them directly into your fabric). It looks a little something like this.

If you want to watch me do it and see all the steps, wander over that way and check it out!

Wondering what’s going on? I’ve taken a bunch of photos and made a bunch of videos while I worked on mending this sweater. I’m putting the videos up in a series of posts over on patreon, and I’m turning the photos into a download with written instructions. While I’m working on creating those instructions, I’ll make the series of posts available to everyone on patreon (yes, even folks with a free membership). Once the proper written instructions are ready, I’ll put them up for sale in some capacity and swap the series of posts around to be more restricted. But for now, anyone who wants to follow along totally can!