Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 When we got a hole in our socks my mom would get out the sewing box and sew the hole. Does anyone do that anymore? I have a few with holes, I’m thinking I should darn em! https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-darn-a-sock/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Not me. By the time my socks get holes in them, they're done anyway...garbage time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I have a sock with a hole, darn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Sis and I helped Mom darn socks in the days before TV. The radio was on all the time. Now, holey socks go in the rag bag (if clean) or the trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Ya need a darning egg. Grandma just used a small light bulb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I did in the army, haven’t in the 66 years since. Gave my darner to a sewing friend who collects things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Dad did his. Used a light bulb. I've suggested to my wife that a sock needed sewed up. Find them gone a bit later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 I've done it a couple of times with heavy wool socks. The socks that come in a bag, 6 pairs for $10 (or whatever the current price is), get tossed. Or used for car wash rags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 I also use a light bulb (I find my inherited darning egg too small). Your link provides good instructions, but if you are not comfortable with steps 4 & 5 (the reweaving part) you can just close the hole by doing step 4 (across the hole) & pulling the sides together. Make sure you're working on the outside of the sock or the resulting seam will be uncomfortable against your foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 I have Damned some socks for not be warm as advertised. That’s a step up from Darning them. Do I win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 7 Author Share Posted June 7 25 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: I have Damned some socks for not be warm as advertised. That’s a step up from Darning them. Do I win? Yes you win a needle and a roll of thread! Congratulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 My wife darns mine sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 I still have a darning egg, but use it most it to help with other things. It's great for patching thin leather or buskin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 I darned one sock when I was in the Navy. After standing a 4 hour quarterdeck watch with that little knot of sock and thread pressing against the tip of mug big toe. My toe hurt for a week after that. Some beer money went for new socks afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 I went to visit an old neighbor several years ago who has since passed on, and when I walked in, he was sitting in his recliner darning his socks. I said, "Hey Dewey, whatcha doin'?" "Darning my socks." "What?? You know you can go to the store and get a half dozen for $8.99?" "Oh no, have you priced good wool socks lately?" "Well, no, but... wait a minute, those aren't wool socks." "Nope, but they will be when I'm through." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erasmus Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 when I was growing up if I got a hole in my sock my mom or dad would toss me an orange, say "you know where the sewing stuff is", and left me alone to fix my socks. I have better socks these days and generally get fewer holes, but still something to remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 When I wrote of Sheriff Willamina darning socks in the school hallway while her young were at band practice, that wasn't just that pale eyed Sheriff ... that was a memory from my Mama. She'd unfold a tin chair and set up shop in the hall, she'd bring her sewing bag and she'd patch jeans or darn socks, and the guys were just FASCINATED at watching this Woman's Magic! She had a polished maple darning egg, her fingers had eyes, she'd be reweaving across a hole in a heel and chatting happily ... the guys would stop and loaf companionably against the wall, "Hi, Mom, what'cha doin'?" (She was always Mom. Not "Mrs. Keller." Always "Mom.") She'd look up with that smile of hers and she'd say "I'm patching knees" or "darning socks" or "sewing on a button," and the guys would be FASCINATED. Their own mothers did not sew. This was something they never saw in their own families. Watching mystic passes of her magical, shining steel sewing wand, guided by a mother's skilled and supernatural fingers, was genuinely a delight for them. And for mom. She delighted in being "Mom" to those rough, tough, broad shouldered, testosterone fueled young bucks who just melted when she looked up and smiled with a mother's gentleness, while her fingers wove woman's magic across a hole in the heel of a sock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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