Oh Darn ~ After

The first sock that I darned, I did not have any of the same yarn left.  So I used some miscellaneous yarn I had kicking around.  It turned out really well, I think!  One thing is though, I forgot to turn the sock inside out. Oh Darn! The second sock for repair by darning, I did have the same yarn and as you can see it is not very noticeable.  I do like that fact on the first sock you can see the stitches.  It was easy for me to do the basket type weaving.  Remember making paper doing the basket weave in and out in school, well this is the same principle. What I like about the 100% wool is that the stitches will felt together a bit after a couple of washings. I will have to see how the darning stands up!

Two of my socks darned and ready to give the wearing test!

Oh Darn ~ Before

This sock needs to be darned on the bottom of the upper foot pad.

Before darning my two socks!

This sock needs to be darned on the heel.  This sock is made of 100% wool and was handpainted by me!

It's a Darning, learning day

I have never learned to darn properly.  I have never had to do it before.  MrB and I enjoy the feel of 100% wool socks on our feet.  If you live in Canada in the months of January and February, nothing better on your feet and they serve as slipper socks too when you wear crocs like me.  I want to mention that we do not sell many 100% wool socks but on occasion we do.  I thought it was time to learn more about darning today.  My first thing to do was to search and find a good simple friendly You-tube video.  So off to you-tube I went!  The first one I found was way out of league crocheting. so I found another one and it was much easier.  I did not know that were darning mushroom.  This is new to me.  I was familiar with the darning eggs though.  Well now I have learned  how to darn, I must put that into practice, and go do that shortly.  I do not have a darning mushroom or darning egg to do the job.  So guess what I am using a jar today, and I now have two lathe projects for MrB when his hand is back to functioning.  I am thinking too that sometimes we have more delicate yarns for our own use for socks made of alpaca, cashmere etc, so it will definitely be useful to know how to darn correctly.  MrB has been darning some of his socks, he is much harder on socks than I am!  He will darn his socks and I will darn mine!  I have two socks to darn today.  One is a heel to darn, and one is bottom of sock where your foot pad is below toes.  These are the two areas in which my feet wear the delicate socks.  Please note to anyone reading this post, that I am not referring to the superwash socks that we crank as they have some nylon content for strength.  I am not saying that will not wear in certain areas, but truly not as fast as 100% wool socks or more delicate yarns used for sock pairs.  If you wear one pair of socks, over and over and over again, they are going to wear out, that is a fact, and it does not matter what kind of yarn was used to create them. It's a darning, learning day for me today!