First things first! I need to trim a bit of the loose ends and see what I’ve got to work with.
I tried the same method as I’d used for the sweater first, marking the rows with pins. I knew I needed something to help the stitches stay put since there simply wouldn’t be any fabric around some of the stitches I was going to create. Well, pins didn’t work out for me this time. I could ”hang up” the stitches on them, but they also got in the way. New plan!
This is two strands of white cotton embroidery thread, threaded through one ”leg” of each stitch and just trailed across where there were no stitches.
I then started duplicate stitching, one row at the time and starting on ”healthy” fabric a couple stitches from the hole. When I couldn’t anchor my stitch in neighbouring stitches I looped it around the guide thread. On the next row I’d sew into the new loose loop, creating solid fabric.