Darn socks

With a few tools it’s possible to bring back your favourite pair of lost soles from sock-drawer purgatory

I wondered at first if I was going a bit mad, and maybe mending socks is taking things a little too far in the journey to living more sustainably, but here’s the thing. Most socks these days are made of polyester, which is really just plastic. So throwing away good socks, even if they have holes in,

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.

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.

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

: Find out how I darned my favourite pair of socks, including a darning mushroom on the heels. Read more about darning socks and other clothes today.

Darn it, I’ve almost put a hole in my favourite knitted socks! Luckily, I know just what to do: darn it!

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.

Learn how to darn a sock using a mending loom with this step by step video tutorial from MCreativeJ.