knit up

verb

verb

To close up or draw together by knitting.

But daily he knit up the fabric that their bad loving had ripped the night before.1976, Helen Yglesias, chapter XV, in Family Feeling, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, page 216:
To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61:

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