How to mend socks

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.

Michele says: The decision to mend vs. replace an item is often surprisingly difficult. While being wasteful is rarely a good thing, there comes a point in every object’s lifetime where you must do a

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,

Learn how to darn a sock using the old technique to repair holes. Here is a step-by-step sock-darning tutorial.

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

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…

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Learn how to darn sock with holes using an easy stitching technique that embraces the 'visible mending' ethos. Darning socks has never been so easy.