Crochet hooks and a darning needle are often useful in binding off or in joining two knitted pieces edge-to-edge.

Then embroidery threads are woven in patterns into that net using needle weaving or needle darning.

Filet lace ( also known as Embroidery on Knotted Net, Lacis, Filet Brodé and Poinct Conté ) is a needle lace created by darning on a ground of knotted net or netting.

Buratto is an Italian needle lace made by darning on a net.

Additional patterns can be made on the surface of the knitted fabric using embroidery ; if the embroidery resembles knitting, it is often called Swiss darning.

This relatively easy type of drawn thread work is created by weaving ( or darning ) the embroidering thread into the barelaid warp or weft threads to create patterns of light-colored threads and dark openings in the drawn-thread cloth.

The embroidery stitch employed is rather like the parallel darning stitch and is rarely allowed to penetrate the entire fabric.

Hand darning employs the darning stitch, a simple running stitch in which the thread is " woven " in rows along the grain of the fabric, with the stitcher reversing direction at the end of each row, and then filling in the framework thus created, as if weaving.

* Pattern darning is a type of embroidery that uses parallel rows of straight stitches of different lengths to create a geometric design.

* Net darning, also called filet lace, is a 19th century technique using stitching on a mesh foundation fabric to imitate lace.

* Needle weaving is a drawn thread work embroidery technique that involves darning patterns into barelaid warp or weft threads.

Invisible darning is the epitome of this attempt at restoring the fabric to its original integrity.

Invisible darning is appropriate for extremely expensive fabrics and items of apparel.

In machine darning, lines of machine running stitch are run back and forth across the hole, then the fabric is rotated and more lines run at right angles.

This is a fast way to darn, but it cannot match the effects of fine darning.

Baird built what was to become the world's first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, and sealing wax and glue that he purchased.

Large cowry shells such as that of Cypraea tigris have been used in Europe in the recent past as a frame over which sock heels were stretched for darning.

Darning also refers to any of several needlework techniques that are worked using darning stitches:

Fine darning, sometimes known as Belgian darning, attempts to make the repair as invisible and neat as possible.

However, such circular wales are possible using Swiss darning, a form of embroidery, or by knitting a tube separately and attaching it to the knitted fabric.

" Swiss darning " to repair knits

* Swiss darning as an embellishment technique

Argyle socks and sweaters are normally done in intarsia, although the thin diagonal lines are often overlaid in a later step, using Swiss darning or sometimes just a simple backstitch.

* Hank Stohl's Rodney ' n ' Knish ( Knish being a mop-shaped puppet with a darning egg for a nose ).

" Cashmere darn ", a fine darning technique for twill fabric, from The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.

Some of these techniques include " shadow " or " lite " stitching, blackwork on canvas, and pattern darning.

* During the events of Night Watch, the Guild briefly employed an actual seamstress, who made quite a large sum of money darning the socks of men who made the same mistake she did.

For example, one statue entitled " A gentleman, a lady and a darn woman " shows a Western couple watching a Chinese woman darning cloth.

In its simplest form, darning consists of anchoring the thread in the fabric on the edge of the hole and carrying it across the gap.

There are many varieties of fine darning.

`` But you want to ask me when B'dikkat is going to come back with the needle ''.

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

To conduct an atom probe experiment, such a needle is placed in an ultra high vacuum chamber.

The needle is oriented towards a phosphor screen to create a projected image of the tip's work function, near the specimen surface.

Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another or to cloth, usually by the use of a needle and thread or soft, flexible wire.

The needle is passed back through the beads above the warp threads to lock the beads into place.

The design of this example is closely based on Flemish needle lace of the 17th century.

Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.

Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner ( although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music ).

Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn.

Saline is infused under pressure into the corpus cavernosum with a butterfly needle, and the flow rate needed to maintain an erection indicates the degree of venous leakage.

The use of needle exchange programs in areas with a high density of drug users with HIV is an example of the successful implementation of this treatment method.

The infusion set is a thin plastic tube with a fine needle at the end.

By contrast, the left-plaited stitch is generally formed by hand-knitters by wrapping the yarn in the opposite way, rather than by any change in the needle.

The loops on the metal needle are the active stitches, and the yarn coming out of the knitting on the right is the working yarn.

Needle felting is a technique used to add decoration to a knitted or felted piece, where raw roving is applied using a very sharp barbed felting needle by repeatedly piercing the roving and background together.

Adding a " slip stitch " ( where a loop is passed from one needle to the other ) allows for a wide range of textures, including heel and linen stitches, and a number of more complicated patterns.

Changing the order of stitches from one row to the next, usually with the help of a cable needle or stitch holder, is key to cable knitting, producing an endless variety of cables, honeycombs, ropes, and Aran sweater patterning.

There are various method employed to " cast on ," such as the " thumb method " ( also known as " slingshot " or " long-tail " cast-ons ), where the stitches are created by a series of loops that will, when knitted, give a very loose edge ideal for " picking up stitches " and knitting a border ; the " double needle method " ( also known as " knit-on " or " cable cast-on "), whereby each loop placed on the needle is then " knitted on ," which produces a firmer edge ideal on its own as a border ; and many more.

However, large gauge needles emphasise those actions and knitting becomes increasingly more awkward when the needle diameter is greater than the width of the knitters finger.

The hook catches the loop of yarn as each stitch is knitted, meaning that wrists and fingers don ’ t have to work so hard and there is less chance of stitches slipping off the needle.