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| Mending socks | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 21 2017, 06:48 PM (687 Views) | |
| sooty | Jan 21 2017, 06:48 PM Post #1 |
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Several years ago I read in our Sundaypaper, Mens column, the style guru at the time stating you don't mend socks anymore but buy new. At the time I was amused and I thought of the amount of repairs to clothing socks etc that I have done over the years. Today I've been darning three pairs of socks and I thought I would just post the query. Looking at one pair there are five darns, colour not matching perfectly. When the toes and heels are paper thin then they become dusters. Eventually they hit the bin. I also tend to by the same few colours in diabetic socks so can usually match a single. I don't darn stocking socks for quite as many repairs because the nylon is so thin anyway. |
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| Alli | Jan 21 2017, 08:04 PM Post #2 |
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I enjoy darning socks I still have my grandmothers darning spool It's a little pointless darning socks that you pay nearly nothing for they are far to thin and will tear from the yarn. The first pair of socks I knitted wore like iron because they were wool.. I used to darn my husband's socks as he was in the military and wore the most gawd awful wool socks I would darn them with bright colourful wool he did get a chuckle out of that though. |
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| Kahu | Jan 21 2017, 09:52 PM Post #3 |
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I still remember how to darn socks, but I haven't actually darned any for years! I have sewn buttons on shirts more though. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 22 2017, 01:39 AM Post #4 |
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I buy almost exclusively white athletic socks (XLarge Hanes) because 95% of my foot wear is New Balance "running" shoes. I DO darn the fronts but when the heels go gossamer I pop it on a Swiffer and do floors and windows. But occasionally I will darn dark ORLON socks at the toe because they are getting so hard to find. Cotton socks suck and at the first hole, another duster. Every 20 years, I throw out unmatched singles (I am at about 2 dozen now)...and then start finding their matches. I HATE darning socks (I use an inserted light bulb to hold the sock) mainly because I hate threading needles) but I hate it slightly less than sewing on buttons. |
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| angora | Jan 22 2017, 03:53 AM Post #5 |
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Ive never darned a sock in my life and I'm not going to start now. I did knit one sock once though. |
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| agate | Jan 22 2017, 05:03 AM Post #6 |
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Thanks angora, that gave me a chuckle this morning laugh123 |
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| agate | Jan 22 2017, 05:06 AM Post #7 |
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My mother used to darn our socks when she came to visit. I have her wooden darning tool that came from Holland and for some reason I have MIL's wood one that came from Russia. One is concave and the other convex. I have never darned a sock. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 22 2017, 05:18 AM Post #8 |
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I had such a wooden tool inherited from my mother but it seemed to disappear somehow. It was shaped like a turkey drumstick...I cannot imagine a use for a concave one. So now I use a light bulb. It works well even if I never have one nearby when I decide to do my annual darn. <I MUST have an interesting TV show playing or the DARN boredom laugh123 might be fatal.> Edited by Trotsky, Jan 22 2017, 05:19 AM.
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| David | Jan 22 2017, 05:30 AM Post #9 |
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When mine get to that point, I damn them. |
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| angora | Jan 22 2017, 05:35 AM Post #10 |
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| Durgan | Jan 22 2017, 05:47 AM Post #11 |
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I darned socks as a kid, since I only had one pair. I consider the practice synonymous with going to church and about as exciting. |
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| Redd | Jan 22 2017, 05:55 AM Post #12 |
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I like to coordinate sock colours with pants so if I cannot find another pair in that same colour I will darn the pair with a hole. I always find that it's the big toe area that goes first. |
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| Dialtone | Jan 22 2017, 06:00 AM Post #13 |
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I usually buy a bunch of socks all the same, I have 2 colours, mostly black and a few white to go with runners. If one develops a hole, it goes into the garbage as I have others that will fit just fine in it's place. |
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| Olive Oil | Jan 22 2017, 06:01 AM Post #14 |
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Socks with holes go on my hands and I do some dusting! Socks seem to last almost forever but as a child they seemed to wear out fast. I think the difference was that they were made of all cotton or wool. |
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| erka | Jan 22 2017, 06:09 AM Post #15 |
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Like Angora I never darned socks. Ray use to darn his wool socks using a light bulb. I stayed out of the room as I visioned the needle going through the bulb with cursing and cut fingers. always buy 6 or more pairs of the same socks - eventually quite a few pairs with a spare. |
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