I finally managed to tear myself away from knitting socks, although I didn’t get away from them completely.
At the bottom of my wardrobe there’s been a pile of holey socks accumulating over the years, and there they would probably still be if I hadn’t suddenly hit a shortage. Yes, I wore through so many pairs of socks that I didn’t even have enough left to last a week! It was beyond time to get on with it.
You may remember the moth incident a few months ago. Well that left me with lots of short pieces of sock yarn far too small to make anything with.
I quite like the look of visible mending so I decided to use them for fixing all the socks, regardless of colour.
The first couple were done and fastened off before I remembered you’re supposed to do them inside out, but now I’m getting the hang of it and I can see the stitches getting neater each time.
I still don’t know why mending things feels so satisfying, but add in using up those scraps of yarn I thought were goners and it’s even better. I may never get rid of old socks again!
Hannah
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I have some 20 year old hiking socks that are going to need this treatment! They are getting quite thin in spots.
Did you use a darning egg?
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No, I don’t have an egg yet. I’m using a hard massage ball I had lying around and it works pretty well.
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I’m impressed. They look great. I like being able to see when I have fixed something.
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Thank you! I’m kind of proud of the later ones 🙂
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Good for you! I haven’t had any socks I’ve felt strongly enough about to mend yet, but I know it’ll happen someday.
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It’s more that I feel quite strongly _against_ spending my money on new ones :p
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Great work 😊
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Thank you!
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Your socks look really good, and what a great use for yarn that would have had to go to waste otherwise!
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I’m not sure about the first two, but I’m pretty proud of the later ones 😀 And I’m so glad I didn’t have to bin all that pretty yarn.
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It is put to good use!
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I’m too fussy to like visible mending. But I salute you for mending!
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It’s so satisfying!
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Ohhh, I have a WIP that I abandoned for 2 years/recently picked back up, and found a random split in one of the squares – I wonder if it was a moth! Great work in patching it back together.
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It could have been, they’re nasty little things.
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