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Also this was the image I was trying to upload the other day of the sock I've been darning

#mending #darning
Not perfect but whatever. It works

Darning socks with a Speedweve loom

I love this little device. The weave is tight and long-lasting. Colours are fun to play with, and it's a good activity for fidgety hands.

Original "Speed Weve" darner was released in the thrifty 1940s:
https://ragandmagpie.co.uk/blog/how-to-use-a-1940s-speede-weve

Now sold by Alexon Ver, from Ukraine (www.etsy.com/shop/Alexonver)

I didn't want to deal with customs, so ordered from a Canadian shop (TheGreenThimble.ca).

#VisibleMending #Darning #SpeedWeve

3 mended socks:

A green & orange 5-toe sock, mended under the ball of the foot in a weave of green, orange and blue

A purple & yellow 5-toe sock, mended under the ball of the foot in purple & yellow stripes

A thick grey hiking sock, with 2 mended patches in progress: one under the ball, and one at the heel.

Sock mending in progress.

Photo shows the purple and yellow sock with Speedweve loom attached, and mended patch about 1/4 complete.

Taken on a lovely warm May afternoon, sitting on the front porch with the sock resting on my legs.

Two more holes mended on the old socks, they're getting more colourful with every mend. 🪡
#crafts #mending #visiblemending #mendingmatters #repair #slowfashion #repairwhatyouwear #sustainability #darning #darningsocks #repareren #kledingreparatie #sokkenstoppen #duurzaam #duurzaamheid #verstellen

I darned the holes with the honeycomb stitch. I did each of the three by its own starting with the lowest one. I used all purpose darning yarn.

It was a bit tedious because I used a small needle and a thin yarn. The first two rows are very important. I darned these on the still intact fabric. The biggest hole took almost three hours to darn. It didn’t lays as flat as I wanted.
Let’s see how it holds up.

#repair #mending #darning #visibleMending

The picture shows the bottom of a black backpack. There are patches in blue yarn.

Mildly interesting: my socks always fail on the big toe on the right foot (which is a size larger than the left one).

#darning #mending #Visiblemending

12 socks, laid on a table, inside-out. All of them have visible darned patches on the toe

Went to the local outdoor shop to buy the stuff and they said I should try darning it first. The glued patch would rub right off again like @glowl said. I’ll try and when the daring failed I’ll sew a patch on.

#repair #mending #darning

Would you like to know how to do honeycomb darning? Well, I made a little video.

#visiblemending #darnit #darning #mending #honeycombdarning

These are my hand-turned and carved darning mushrooms for repairing socks. I started developing this model last autumn but didn’t finalize the design until after Christmas. I forgot to share these here on pixelfed 🙄

They’re available for purchase on Vävkompaniet’s website: www.vavkompaniet.se, and they offer international shipping too😄

#darning #mushroom #slöjd #sloyd #woodturning #design #repair #crafts

Tried different colors, accidentally made a cursed eye
#mending #darning #visiblemending

A sock with a patch of honeycomb darning in concentric circles of white, pink, yellow, and blue

The same sock, off the darning egg, looking somewhat unsettling

Honeycomb darning is basically interlocking rows of blanket stitch. I really like it for #mending socks - it maintains stretch and breathability, and also looks kinda cute. Might play with using different colors.
#sewing #darning

A white tube sock with a round patch of darning in white cotton embroidery floss. The rows swirl towards the centre and the outside is appealingly scalloped.

Last Saturday was "Mend in Public Day". In my city there was an outdoors mending event at the botanical garden that I participated in.

More info in the Alt Text and more craftsy stuff on my blog: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/april-crochet-mending-adventures-new-projects-yarn-craft-ideas/

#botanicalgarden #plantentuin #sewandrenew #mendinpublicday #mendinpublic #mendinpublicday2025 #mending #darning #sewing #bloomscrolling

Sign at the entrance of the botanical garden for the "Sew & Renew" event. Text underneath: Mending event at the Plantentuin for Mend in Public Day.

The botanical garden with mending participants hidden behind a tree and lots of yellow flowers and other plants in the front.

My messy mending skills with red thread on a black skull & bones sock and blue hoodie.

Botanical garden with a pond (we could hear the frogs very loudly!), lots of trees and very colourful flowers and blossoms in pink, red, purple, white and yellow.

given a new life
the warmth of an old blanket
filling the sock hole

(February's kigo, "blanket", is a 2-for-1. Here's the first...)

🧦 Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6085164
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series

#FountainPenInk #Ink #haiku #poetry #socks #darning #mending #cozy

Photo of a haiku illustrated with ink in an open notebook next to two glass dip pens, one of which is just a tip. Portrait orientation depicting a pair of warm, colourful socks with a patchwork feel.
"given a new life
the warmth of an old blanket
filling the sock hole"
- Poetry and art by Maiji/Mary Huang, humangray.com

Got some #mending done today after work; patched up an old swimsuit and used my #darning egg for the first time on a pair of socks. :catjam: The second pair of socks was too threadbare to darn, so I cut out a piece of scrap fabric roughly the same shape as the sole and whip-stitched it on. It's not pretty, but it's functional. No pictures due to ugliness, but I plan to wear the latter pair of socks tomorrow and I will report back on how they felt/held up

tfw you need to knit a swatch in order to figure out how to mend your baby's blankie…
#mending #darning #swissdarning

loosely knitted swatch of two hexagons on top of a hole prepared for swiss darning

hole in a honey-coloured blanked featuring a pattern of hexagons, tidily prepared with pins and helper threads for swiss darning

Turns out you can darn holes that aren't tiny (~1cm?) if you have a bit of patience. Any bigger, though, and a patch may have been the way to go.
#mending #darning

A section of faintly patterned orange garment in sun and shadow, showing a slightly darker orange darn of no artistic merit.

A few #ootd with my partner and a lil darning action on their wool coat :) #fashion #darning

February #events at #DoubleUnion RSVP at https://doubleunionsf.eventbrite.com/

#cardmaking #handcrafting #rugtufting #mending #darning

I found my foot-shaped darning egg and am, as predicted, full of glee. I’ve included a photo of it inside a sock heel with my hand gripping it, so you can see the idea. This sock doesn’t need darning, but if it did, the wooden form inside it would help support the sock and also keep me from accidentally sewing through two layers while darning.

Edit to add some more alt text I’d meant to put in before.

#darning #mending

The end of the darning egg that’s shaped kind of like a foot is inside a sock heel, with the sock pulled around it to make a flat, smooth area that could be darned. My pinky beige hand is holding the sock around the handle so that it doesn’t flop around.

A wooden blobby thing on a green piece of fabric. One end is a handle, while the other is shaped more or less like the toe end of a shoe.

It is stamped with the words “Foot-form patented” but the patent has probably expired by now.

#FungiFriday 🍄 8AM＠JP
#菌曜日おはよう御座います

My pajamas had worn out and developed a hole, so I mended it with some stitching 🧵🪡. This time, the hole was quite big, so I patched it with a fabric scrap and added an iron-on patch.
Next, I’ll decorate the patch with an appliqué!

　
パジャマが擦り切れて穴ができたので塞ぎました🧵🪡 今回は大きい穴だったのでハギレで補修した後、アイロンパッチをしました
これからパッチの上にアップリケをします🤗
#aiart #wrtn #GPT4o #darning

大きな穴の #ダーニングのコツ
https://youtu.be/_TMY5phm3ZE
ダーニング刺繍：お直しにも、かわいいワンポイントにも！ https://amzn.asia/d/dnzFBrd

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