Mending socks by hand

I've darned quite a few things before, but not knits and not with a mending loom. Since the materials were new to me, I figured it would be best to start with a small project like a woven sock mend. ⁠This was an easy mend that I was able to stitch from start to finish in under 30mins. After mending my sock, I moved on to a sweater. If you've ever wanted to give a mending loom a try, here's a step by step tutorial on what you'll need as well as how to use it.

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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…

With St Nicolas around the corner, I thought a post on socks was quite appropriate. Am I the only one whose socks always fail in the same place? It seems a waste to get rid of socks because they ha…

Favourite pair of socks have a hole in them? With a needle, thread and about 3 minutes you can close that hole and make them like new again.

Whether snagged by a branch, singed by an errant campfire ember, or munched by moths,…

I never thought I’d be the sort of person who would know how to mend socks. But to make do with what we have, I’ve learnt to darn socks.

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

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.