Darning socks

Michele says: The decision to mend vs. replace an item is often surprisingly difficult. While being wasteful is rarely a good thing, there comes a point in every object’s lifetime where you must do a

With a few tools it’s possible to bring back your favourite pair of lost soles from sock-drawer purgatory

In this post, I am teaching you a simple and easy technique to darn your socks instead of throwing them out when they have holes in them.

Today, I'm going to show you how to darn a sock by hand using a quick and easy technique.I discovered not many people know how to darn a hole in a sock, so I ma…

Swiss darning, also called duplicate stitch, is a technique where you trace the path of a row of knitting, covering the existing stitches.

I wondered at first if I was going a bit mad, and maybe mending socks is taking things a little too far in the journey to living more sustainably, but here’s the thing. Most socks these days are made of polyester, which is really just plastic. So throwing away good socks, even if they have holes in,

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.

How do you decide which darning/mending technique to use? Some questions to consider: -is the patch going to be visible or will it blend in? -what type of garment are you repairing? -how much time do you want to spend mending? When it comes to mending, there is never an exact yes or no answer. It is (almost) always th

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