I have recently entered that period in a man's life when he slowly begins to be referred to as a geezer . The jokes get increasingly bad. Suddenly, you ARE your Grandfather 🤔
This is a skill that needs a solid comeback in this economy. It's definitely worth learning if you knit your own socks and don't want to throw them away just because of a small hole.
3 years later, economy is even worse.. With those $25 wool socks this is a skill I need! I would have appreciated more info about what thread to use though, since I know nothing about sewing..
I just buy cheap-ish white sport socks and this is still a skill I'm working on, because man is it wasteful to throw away an entire sock because of a hole or two. No sense in tossing something that's easily still usable.
Thanks for this tutorial. I used it to darn my daughter’s sock. My first time doing this, so I accidentally pulled too tightly at times so it bunched up a little. I told her it was like my love: a little annoying, but there to protect her.
I love your clear voice and how you got straight to the point and reassured us and that the video isnt long. also love that it has no music. hope all your videos are like this
My very large teething kitten just chewed a hole through my brand new $30 winter socks! Ugh! Forgot how to darn. Saw your video. EXCELLENT tutorial! Well done. Nice, and to the point. Thank you for taking the time to make this. Blessings💕
My mother learned how to darn socks from her grandmother, and she uses the same method you showed in this video! I have always wanted to darn socks, but didn't have the time. Now, with us all in lockdown, I have the time! Thanks for sharing this!! ~Janet in Canada
Same here. However I was given a sewing machine that belonged to a great-aunt a few months ago. Has all it's original different attachments along w/what I now know the name of one of them. I always just saw lightbulbs used for that.
@@ProfessorPincushion The newer LED's I think have a plastic bulb, not glass. I had to buy a new one at the store cause we didn' t have an old one lying round. cost me 2.50 cents which is still cheaper than a darning egg. BUT I also bought a plastic xmas ornament..
Truly a thing of beauty. I remember watching my great aunt darn socks and even as a kid appreciated what is truly an art form. Thank you and well done.
I Always played hard as a kid and now as a hard working father im always go through a good pair of boots in one year and a good pair of socks always ends up with holes And bombas socks are freaking expensive as hell but well woth the price and could never throw em out thinking 🤔 i might be able to repair these one day and your video magically poped up in my feed 😉 thanks a lot 🙏, this is much appreciated information / Knowledge.
I see a lot of visible mending videos. This one is excellent to learn how to do nearly invisible mending. First mending video I've seen where you're taught to work on the inside of the sock rather than the outside. Brava!
Thank you so much !!!! A soldiers most important is his feet !!! So many soldiers from Vietnam were sadly brought dòwn from poor hygiene because of the rain always having wet feet and worn out boots and socks
This is going to be fun! Now, I won't feel any weirdness in my socks when they need to be repaired. I've previously only been pulling the sides together. I'm done paying for new socks!
This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever watched. Camera work, editing, and narration..all around as good as it gets. Very helpful, thank you.
I've closed so many holes in socks with a ladder stitch and had the big bulky knot there....I'm going to try this from now on. Thanks for the clear concise tutorial.
A fifth of the trash in our landfills are textiles. Darning some socks or knowing how to do basic sewing and mending might not seem like much, but it can add up (and save money).
Great video! I searched for how to darn socks and wasn't expecting much but Wow!! There are hundreds of videos in it. This one tops though, straight to the point an easy to understand. As I don't have a earning egg though, I'll be trying it with one of the kids' plastic Easter eggs. 👍
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I have thrown away too many socks to count over the years because I didn't know how to mend them without making them uncomfortable to wear. I have six kids, and my husband, especially, is really rough on his socks, so this skill will save us a lot of money and prevent us from sending a lot of wearable socks to the landfill.
A great tutorial and I hope it inspires people to not throw away their socks just because of a little hole. Yes, I chuck them sometimes, but trying to get better and darn them instead :).
Gosh, too much work. I learned in 1956 from my grandma. First do the stitch and go direct to the opposite side and make a grid. Then start weaving from the other side and hey presto, flat and done.
Excellent tutorial. I have a whole bin of socks in need of repair that I’ve been avoiding. Socks are too expensive, like everything else today, to just throw away. Problem solved. Many thanks. 👍
Thank you so very much. This confirmed what I suspected about darning socks. Maybe grandmother Rose or mom showed me this when I was knee-high to a cricket and it was hiding in my memory bank awaiting renewal. Thanks again, Professor.
Perfect timing! I need to darn some rips in my woollen coat after it lost a fight with a metal chair. It was a bit of a daunting prospect given my limited sewing skills. I feel ready to give it a go after watching this. Thank you!
Thank you for your excellent video. My stitching technique is bad so my socks look like Frankenstein. However, I fixed my several of my Stance $18 a pair socks so I am very happy.
Thank you. I had heard of darning and didn't know how to do it. I tried patching my socks with thin fabric and also just sewing the holes closed and both left me with lumps that drove me crazy. Now I know how to really darn a sock. :)
I have two pair of very nice, expensive, wool socks that I could not throw away. Thank you so much for teaching me how to darn! It truly is a lost art! My socks are saved (and I am so happy cause they are so warm and comfortable)!
Good socks, especially woolen, are practical but expensive. This is an excellent way to get many years of use out of them. I like the way this video shows the right way to darn them (the way my grandmother did!) so they look and feel fantastic.
I didn't know darning was this easy! I've always been intimidated by it and other tutorials I've seen seem to rather complicate it. This was so helpful, thank you so much! Successfully darned my first sock right after watching this :)
Thanks for putting this up! I literally just used it to fix a holey sock, it doesn't look as neat as yours but hey for a first try I'm happy. My end result is still a fixed sock. Thanks again!
Of course i just watched this video after throwing out a lot of quality socks with holes in them...ha I was just tossing a pair out today when i remembered my sixth grade teacher mentioning darning. I remember she said her mother used a large light bulb. great video, thanks.
Oh, Tova, I ‘ve been doing this wrong!!! And I watched a bunch of tutorials on The Tube AND I DIDN’T GET IT 😱. You’re just plain brilliant and a born teacher. I GOT IT 😁😁 Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU 😘
I've read recently that for knit fabrics like t-shirts, sweater and socks, you want to do the second darning diagonally. Might wanna try that next time.
Thank you! I remember my mother darning socks but I never learned. I'm so hard on socks and hate constantly throwing them away. I have a pair now to immediately try my skills.. Still have my mother's darning egg, too.
I can't wait to try this, to repair some holes in our hand knitted Christmas stockings. Mine is...vintage...and I'm hoping to get many more years out of it. I have more hope of that now! Thank you for sharing this skill.
I have a bunch of wool socks with a small hole surrounded by a worn area, just like yours. I'm going to try this technique. I'm probably gonna try splitting some strands of embroidery thread and using that instead of regular thread. Seems like it would last longer than regular thread.
Thanks so much! I used to sew my dads socks all the time growing up but never like this. This is so cool! Now I can save all of my cute socks and save money. (Oh and help the planet too. Lol)
They still dont teach it. We learned about babies, I think. Idk, it was entirely useless for a 7th grader. (I'm in 10th grade now, so this wasnt long ago)
My home economy class in 1999 was a joke. We made pastries using pillsbury out of the can...."sewed" using that plastic lattice stuff and yarn.. carried around a bag of flower like it was a baby. What I could have learned was...basic handstitches to do minor repairs on cloths, how to balance a checkbook, how to use and not abuse a credit card...how to budget the family grocery list...how to actually cook. Now darning socks. Hells the 90s especially would have been a great time to get into visble mending techniques...because the clothing was already crazy out there and colorful.
@@debd7631 nothing's changed. At least not in our school, my guitar teacher said he sewed his sleeve to something in a home ec class though so I guess some people get taught to sew. I think we mat have gotten a crash course in like 6th grade, because I've found some mystery fabric in my small scrap container and I think it's from school. I know we never used sewing machines though and I think we might have actually used hot glue.
@@Sage-qd6tf yeah...the older proper sewing techniques are being lost...I've always hated hot glue because it doesn't hold very well. I had to sew a new elastic band on a brand new wrist pincushion, because the one it came with had been hot glued and tacked in place with 4 stitches.
@@debd7631 I hate hot glue for putting fabric together. It doesn't hold! Unless it's like a knit. And wouldnt it melt in the wash? Idk. I have a couple sewing machines though, and mad hand stitching skills, so I've never had to use hot glue for cloth besides like school projects. (I love my sewing machines, one is a domestic Singer electric machine, a 66-16, and it works pretty good. It's not in the best of shape and it's missing the thingy that covers the bobbin, but that doesn't really cause problems. The other one is a 1922 Singer industrial machine, and it's a 29k55 treddle machine and sews nearly anything that will fit under the presser foot. I love them both and they even have names, the electric one is called the Fire Hazard on account of the sketchy cord, and the treddle is The Clanker because it cranks.)
Excellent! I love how you prepare a good area around the hole to head off future wear, and how you work small to replicate the texture and feel of the sock fabric. One observation: would you find it's too bulky to lock the end of your running stitch rows with a single small backstitch, or maybe would it sacrifice a little stretchiness? Or would it maybe add to stabilize it as you are working?
i needed to double-check how to darn a sock, and imagine my surprise when i realized i'm darning the EXACT SAME kind of sock as the one you're using! the black/grey one you showed at the end is another pair i own and have had to fix up before! they're lovely and cushy and my favorite pairs i own, but sadly wear through so easily.
I got a bag of sewing and crafts "stuff" from a thrift store. Some of the stuff looked very very old, like packages of hook and eyes, needles for only twenty cents. The one object that was a complete mystery to me and everyone I asked, you solved in your video. I have a darning egg! I have to say I got some weird looks from people when I asked if they knew what it was. I had to be careful to explain this bag of sewing stuff BEFORE I mentioned the one item I was clueless about. Hahaha. There were times I almost tossed this darning egg away. I have never darned my socks because my feet are so sensitive to seams, bumps, and holes. But now I will find a sock with holes to try this darning technique to use my egg. Would rather learn to make socks, but darning is okay for now.
I was looking to see how easy it would be to repair a sock.....but seeing this method and realizing how long it takes, I now understand why most people simply buy new socks. Much cheaper when you consider the value of your time to just buy new ones. I'll convert to old ones with holes into one time use rags. That said, it was a nice video in the demonstration of how to do a proper repair.
This should be a mandatory skill that all students should learn in school along with gun safety , Swimming lessons , Kick boxing , identification of plants in the local area , basket weaving ( because this skill can be used for multiples situations like making a pair of shoes to walk in if you were straded in the middle of nowhere for multiple reasons that could possibly happen randomly. ) And Shelter building , Farming , animal husbandry , and preserving food for long periods of time , and First Aid & C.P.R. should all be mandatory skills being taught in every local High school across this Nation for just in case scenarios Because it's better to be prepared than to be Sorry 😞 !!!!!! Thank you - Skål Sistór
Thank you for showing the start and stop of darning - it would have been WONDERFUL to have been able to watch the tricky bit where you are darning over just threads (where the actual hole is). Perhaps this is intuitive to everyone else! It's just a difficult place for me and I've yet to see a tutorial to shows me (in a way that makes sense to my weird brain!). Love your tutorials, and thank you so much for sharing what you know!
sorry about that. When you go over with your first pass, the thread is just laying flat over the hole. When you turn it 90 degrees going in the other direction, now you have fibers over the hole and you just treat it like the other parts of the repair and go through the threads using the same running stitch. I just make sure that when I go over it, I make the running stitch as small as possible.
This make perfect sense and I can picture it now, THANK YOU! Your videos are not only helpful, but have inspired me to start sewing again (after mannnny years). Thanks again.
When I was a kid I used to just sew the hole closed, now I'm an adult I tend to just wear it until it's in tatters and then throw it away. I think I'll give this a go and save them from landfill for a little longer.
This is excellent. I specifically wanted instructions that would use light yarn, and not tie knots. BTW my Mom always said to use mohair for mendng, because it's the strongest and also very warm.
Thank you! My BF is hard on his socks, and the last couple packages have deteriorated faster than some older ones, so I'll be darned if I'm gonna buy more so fast just for some holes that can be darned in a few minutes. Gonna sit and watch TV and darn as many as I can today.
I've always wondered how to darn a sock. My grandfather told me that you put the sock on the darning egg and you hit it while saying "darn sock!
clintblackx | that’s such a grandfather joke!
Well, darning a sock is what our grandparents/great grandparents did. It's a dying art!
I have recently entered that period in a man's life when he slowly begins to be referred to as a geezer . The jokes get increasingly bad.
Suddenly, you ARE your Grandfather 🤔
@@clintblackx the dying art is a totally different craft.
😂😂
This is a skill that needs a solid comeback in this economy. It's definitely worth learning if you knit your own socks and don't want to throw them away just because of a small hole.
Learning to knit socks is on my list of things to do.
@@nancydb1390 did you succeed
@@xXAwesomin8erXx I have not yet. My to do list is very long.
3 years later, economy is even worse.. With those $25 wool socks this is a skill I need! I would have appreciated more info about what thread to use though, since I know nothing about sewing..
I just buy cheap-ish white sport socks and this is still a skill I'm working on, because man is it wasteful to throw away an entire sock because of a hole or two. No sense in tossing something that's easily still usable.
Darn good tutorial.
That was a darn good pun.
This is so darn funny
I physically jolted my head back to cringe. No offense.
CrudeCube darn
@@missChristina2209 no no, it's so darn punny 😉
Thanks for this tutorial. I used it to darn my daughter’s sock. My first time doing this, so I accidentally pulled too tightly at times so it bunched up a little. I told her it was like my love: a little annoying, but there to protect her.
That's sweet....she will remember that.
I love your clear voice and how you got straight to the point and reassured us and that the video isnt long. also love that it has no music. hope all your videos are like this
Thank you. I'm so glad you enjoyed our tutorial :)
I liked the part with no music.
I also like that there’s no music!
I used this technique to fix a hole in my favorite sweater, and now my love for my sweater has grown 10 fold. Thank you!
I'm a sewing novice and don't own a darning egg, so I thought I'd share that a small-diameter Ball jar seemed to work just fine.
My mother and grandparents just used a light bulb.
A Darning Egg would make a good first wood carving project.
I use a light bulb!
For the first sock I darned I used a lemon
@@TheWonderpup6 sounds safer than an egg or a lightbulb...will try your suggestion! Thanks
My very large teething kitten just chewed a hole through my brand new $30 winter socks!
Ugh!
Forgot how to darn. Saw your video. EXCELLENT tutorial!
Well done. Nice, and to the point.
Thank you for taking the time to make this.
Blessings💕
I appreciate you mentioning why you do not tie a knot!
Superb video, no bs, straight to the point.
My mother learned how to darn socks from her grandmother, and she uses the same method you showed in this video! I have always wanted to darn socks, but didn't have the time. Now, with us all in lockdown, I have the time! Thanks for sharing this!! ~Janet in Canada
My family uses lightbulbs when darning. Never knew there was an official tool for it
I never heard of that. The darning egg seems a little safer than a light bulb.
Same here. However I was given a sewing machine that belonged to a great-aunt a few months ago. Has all it's original different attachments along w/what I now know the name of one of them. I always just saw lightbulbs used for that.
Thanks for the tip! Was just trying to think about what I could use around the house.
@@ProfessorPincushion The newer LED's I think have a plastic bulb, not glass. I had to buy a new one at the store cause we didn' t have an old one lying round. cost me 2.50 cents which is still cheaper than a darning egg. BUT I also bought a plastic xmas ornament..
Truly a thing of beauty. I remember watching my great aunt darn socks and even as a kid appreciated what is truly an art form. Thank you and well done.
I Always played hard as a kid and now as a hard working father im always go through a good pair of boots in one year and a good pair of socks always ends up with holes
And bombas socks are freaking expensive as hell but well woth the price and could never throw em out thinking 🤔 i might be able to repair these one day and your video magically poped up in my feed 😉 thanks a lot 🙏, this is much appreciated information / Knowledge.
I love my nordic socks. Can't bring myself to throw them out because of a hole. Gonna learn and apply a new skill.
Thanks
I see a lot of visible mending videos. This one is excellent to learn how to do nearly invisible mending. First mending video I've seen where you're taught to work on the inside of the sock rather than the outside. Brava!
Good video from start to finish. Darned a hole in my wool toe socks. Used a champagne cork. Worked perfectly!
Thank you so much !!!! A soldiers most important is his feet !!! So many soldiers from Vietnam were sadly brought dòwn from poor hygiene because of the rain always having wet feet and worn out boots and socks
This is going to be fun! Now, I won't feel any weirdness in my socks when they need to be repaired. I've previously only been pulling the sides together. I'm done paying for new socks!
This is one of the best instructional videos I've ever watched. Camera work, editing, and narration..all around as good as it gets. Very helpful, thank you.
This video helped me save my partners favorite socks from the trash bin!!
I've closed so many holes in socks with a ladder stitch and had the big bulky knot there....I'm going to try this from now on. Thanks for the clear concise tutorial.
I had a hole in my nice fuzzy marino wool sock and was able to darn it with this video. Thanks!
A fifth of the trash in our landfills are textiles. Darning some socks or knowing how to do basic sewing and mending might not seem like much, but it can add up (and save money).
Great video! I searched for how to darn socks and wasn't expecting much but Wow!! There are hundreds of videos in it. This one tops though, straight to the point an easy to understand. As I don't have a earning egg though, I'll be trying it with one of the kids' plastic Easter eggs. 👍
I love this! Best video out there I used this to repair a bunch of my friends sock!!! :)
Time to use this method on the hole in my stockings. Thanks :)
Love the way hand-mended clothes look
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I have thrown away too many socks to count over the years because I didn't know how to mend them without making them uncomfortable to wear. I have six kids, and my husband, especially, is really rough on his socks, so this skill will save us a lot of money and prevent us from sending a lot of wearable socks to the landfill.
A great tutorial and I hope it inspires people to not throw away their socks just because of a little hole. Yes, I chuck them sometimes, but trying to get better and darn them instead :).
Gosh, too much work. I learned in 1956 from my grandma. First do the stitch and go direct to the opposite side and make a grid. Then start weaving from the other side and hey presto, flat and done.
BratBusters Parenting does this work on very large holes?
I make them into cloth pads
Glorious! I'd always wondered how Wendy darned the Lost Boys' socks... thanks to you I now know 🧚♀️
Excellent tutorial. I have a whole bin of socks in need of repair that I’ve been avoiding. Socks are too expensive, like everything else today, to just throw away. Problem solved. Many thanks. 👍
And it keeps them out of the landfill for a while, too
Thank you so very much. This confirmed what I suspected about darning socks. Maybe grandmother Rose or mom showed me this when I was knee-high to a cricket and it was hiding in my memory bank awaiting renewal. Thanks again, Professor.
it's not a lost art yet :)
Perfect timing! I need to darn some rips in my woollen coat after it lost a fight with a metal chair. It was a bit of a daunting prospect given my limited sewing skills. I feel ready to give it a go after watching this. Thank you!
this was so helpful! now i can save my favorite socks
Wonderful to see something that used to be a basic repair! All those hand knit socks we love, repair rather than replace.
Just ordered a sick darning kit for repairs. Gonna be saving a whole lot of money now.
Thank you for your excellent video. My stitching technique is bad so my socks look like Frankenstein. However, I fixed my several of my Stance $18 a pair socks so I am very happy.
oh nice. I'm so glad it worked out for you
Just darned my first pair of socks thanks to this tutorial and really pleased with how they turned out! Thank you :)
Thank you. I had heard of darning and didn't know how to do it. I tried patching my socks with thin fabric and also just sewing the holes closed and both left me with lumps that drove me crazy. Now I know how to really darn a sock. :)
it's time consuming, but I've used this technique for a few of my socks and it works :)
I have two pair of very nice, expensive, wool socks that I could not throw away. Thank you so much for teaching me how to darn! It truly is a lost art! My socks are saved (and I am so happy cause they are so warm and comfortable)!
Thanks for the tutorial. I have those same socks that I'm repairing 🤣
Good socks, especially woolen, are practical but expensive. This is an excellent way to get many years of use out of them. I like the way this video shows the right way to darn them (the way my grandmother did!) so they look and feel fantastic.
I didn't know darning was this easy! I've always been intimidated by it and other tutorials I've seen seem to rather complicate it. This was so helpful, thank you so much! Successfully darned my first sock right after watching this :)
My wife darns all my holey socks. She says darn this sock has a hole in it and then throws in the trash😂
SUPERB VIDEO! Short, direct, easy to understand and OH SO NECESSARY, as I sit here darning all my socks! THANKS!
so glad you found our tutorial helpful
Thanks for putting this up! I literally just used it to fix a holey sock, it doesn't look as neat as yours but hey for a first try I'm happy. My end result is still a fixed sock. Thanks again!
Thanks for the video. You are a great teacher. I think I can do this.
Of course i just watched this video after throwing out a lot of quality socks with holes in them...ha
I was just tossing a pair out today when i remembered my sixth grade teacher mentioning darning. I remember she said her mother used a large light bulb.
great video, thanks.
Oh, Tova, I ‘ve been doing this wrong!!! And I watched a bunch of tutorials on The Tube AND I DIDN’T GET IT 😱. You’re just plain brilliant and a born teacher. I GOT IT 😁😁
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU 😘
I'm so glad you found our tutorial helpful :D
Thank you, Professor Pincushion!
I've read recently that for knit fabrics like t-shirts, sweater and socks, you want to do the second darning diagonally. Might wanna try that next time.
useful, practical and peaceful
Thank you! I remember my mother darning socks but I never learned. I'm so hard on socks and hate constantly throwing them away. I have a pair now to immediately try my skills.. Still have my mother's darning egg, too.
that's awesome! I'm glad to hear people are saving their socks :)
I’ve followed this and have saved my favourite wool socks. Thank you 🙏
Thank you. My husband wears compression socks and they are expensive and hard to repair
Aweso me tutorial and video quality. You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you. I've always wondered how to use that tool for darning. Tks again.
Thank you! Never knew how to that. Good tutorial
Absolutely brilliant thanks so much for tutorial.
Mandy
Devon UK
Thanks for your clear and fluid exposition - exactly what a klutz like me needs! 🙏
I can't wait to try this, to repair some holes in our hand knitted Christmas stockings. Mine is...vintage...and I'm hoping to get many more years out of it. I have more hope of that now! Thank you for sharing this skill.
It at least can't make it any worse :) I hope it works out and prolongs the life of your stocking :)
thanks for the easy instructions!
I have a bunch of wool socks with a small hole surrounded by a worn area, just like yours. I'm going to try this technique. I'm probably gonna try splitting some strands of embroidery thread and using that instead of regular thread. Seems like it would last longer than regular thread.
I buy merino wool socks and they can be pricey, even on sale. Finally good to learn the proper method for repairing holes. Thanks.
They have lasted me the longest....i love my merino wool socks...now I know that I can keep them going for a long while.
It was my first time doing this and I watched your video , 🤗I did it and it was an amazing result , thank you very much
Thanks so much! I used to sew my dads socks all the time growing up but never like this. This is so cool! Now I can save all of my cute socks and save money. (Oh and help the planet too. Lol)
Brilliant! Why didn't they teach this in home economics when I was in school (back in the '80s, natch). Thank you Professor Pincushion!
They still dont teach it. We learned about babies, I think. Idk, it was entirely useless for a 7th grader. (I'm in 10th grade now, so this wasnt long ago)
My home economy class in 1999 was a joke. We made pastries using pillsbury out of the can...."sewed" using that plastic lattice stuff and yarn.. carried around a bag of flower like it was a baby.
What I could have learned was...basic handstitches to do minor repairs on cloths, how to balance a checkbook, how to use and not abuse a credit card...how to budget the family grocery list...how to actually cook. Now darning socks. Hells the 90s especially would have been a great time to get into visble mending techniques...because the clothing was already crazy out there and colorful.
@@debd7631 nothing's changed. At least not in our school, my guitar teacher said he sewed his sleeve to something in a home ec class though so I guess some people get taught to sew. I think we mat have gotten a crash course in like 6th grade, because I've found some mystery fabric in my small scrap container and I think it's from school. I know we never used sewing machines though and I think we might have actually used hot glue.
@@Sage-qd6tf yeah...the older proper sewing techniques are being lost...I've always hated hot glue because it doesn't hold very well. I had to sew a new elastic band on a brand new wrist pincushion, because the one it came with had been hot glued and tacked in place with 4 stitches.
@@debd7631 I hate hot glue for putting fabric together. It doesn't hold! Unless it's like a knit. And wouldnt it melt in the wash? Idk. I have a couple sewing machines though, and mad hand stitching skills, so I've never had to use hot glue for cloth besides like school projects. (I love my sewing machines, one is a domestic Singer electric machine, a 66-16, and it works pretty good. It's not in the best of shape and it's missing the thingy that covers the bobbin, but that doesn't really cause problems. The other one is a 1922 Singer industrial machine, and it's a 29k55 treddle machine and sews nearly anything that will fit under the presser foot. I love them both and they even have names, the electric one is called the Fire Hazard on account of the sketchy cord, and the treddle is The Clanker because it cranks.)
Thank you it was really clear and now I will no longer put my damaged socks to the trash
Excellent! I love how you prepare a good area around the hole to head off future wear, and how you work small to replicate the texture and feel of the sock fabric. One observation: would you find it's too bulky to lock the end of your running stitch rows with a single small backstitch, or maybe would it sacrifice a little stretchiness? Or would it maybe add to stabilize it as you are working?
i use scrap fabric to mend my socks but love this method too
i needed to double-check how to darn a sock, and imagine my surprise when i realized i'm darning the EXACT SAME kind of sock as the one you're using! the black/grey one you showed at the end is another pair i own and have had to fix up before! they're lovely and cushy and my favorite pairs i own, but sadly wear through so easily.
I got a bag of sewing and crafts "stuff" from a thrift store. Some of the stuff looked very very old, like packages of hook and eyes, needles for only twenty cents.
The one object that was a complete mystery to me and everyone I asked, you solved in your video. I have a darning egg!
I have to say I got some weird looks from people when I asked if they knew what it was. I had to be careful to explain this bag of sewing stuff BEFORE I mentioned the one item I was clueless about. Hahaha.
There were times I almost tossed this darning egg away. I have never darned my socks because my feet are so sensitive to seams, bumps, and holes. But now I will find a sock with holes to try this darning technique to use my egg. Would rather learn to make socks, but darning is okay for now.
oh nice! What a lucky find! :D
The best tutorial I've seen on this! Thank you. 🙏
thank you so much :D
I was looking to see how easy it would be to repair a sock.....but seeing this method and realizing how long it takes, I now understand why most people simply buy new socks. Much cheaper when you consider the value of your time to just buy new ones. I'll convert to old ones with holes into one time use rags.
That said, it was a nice video in the demonstration of how to do a proper repair.
This should be a mandatory skill that all students should learn in school along with gun safety , Swimming lessons , Kick boxing , identification of plants in the local area , basket weaving ( because this skill can be used for multiples situations like making a pair of shoes to walk in if you were straded in the middle of nowhere for multiple reasons that could possibly happen randomly. )
And Shelter building , Farming , animal husbandry , and preserving food for long periods of time , and First Aid & C.P.R. should all be mandatory skills being taught in every local High school across this Nation for just in case scenarios
Because it's better to be prepared than to be Sorry 😞 !!!!!!
Thank you -
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Thanks for this video, i fixed my favorite pair of work socks.
nice! I'm so glad it worked out for you :)
Thank you! So helpful
Thank you now i can repair my 3 weeks old socks😢,"Thank u Socks Doctor you saved my baby socks ".
My favourite wool socks thank you
Thank you for showing the start and stop of darning - it would have been WONDERFUL to have been able to watch the tricky bit where you are darning over just threads (where the actual hole is). Perhaps this is intuitive to everyone else! It's just a difficult place for me and I've yet to see a tutorial to shows me (in a way that makes sense to my weird brain!). Love your tutorials, and thank you so much for sharing what you know!
sorry about that. When you go over with your first pass, the thread is just laying flat over the hole. When you turn it 90 degrees going in the other direction, now you have fibers over the hole and you just treat it like the other parts of the repair and go through the threads using the same running stitch. I just make sure that when I go over it, I make the running stitch as small as possible.
This make perfect sense and I can picture it now, THANK YOU! Your videos are not only helpful, but have inspired me to start sewing again (after mannnny years). Thanks again.
This is a lost art
Again, excellent tutorial! !! Love learning from you! !!
When I was a kid I used to just sew the hole closed, now I'm an adult I tend to just wear it until it's in tatters and then throw it away.
I think I'll give this a go and save them from landfill for a little longer.
That looked amazing. With that kind of stitching I would rather show it off with a contrasting color.
This is excellent. I specifically wanted instructions that would use light yarn, and not tie knots.
BTW my Mom always said to use mohair for mendng, because it's the strongest and also very warm.
Thank you very much
You are the best! Awesome explanation! Love it! Thanks!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! My BF is hard on his socks, and the last couple packages have deteriorated faster than some older ones, so I'll be darned if I'm gonna buy more so fast just for some holes that can be darned in a few minutes. Gonna sit and watch TV and darn as many as I can today.
Thank you. I appreciated having this video to follow. Warning: darning your holes takes a loooooong time.......!
It does. :( put on a show you can binge. :)
thank you
Very nice - you really made a giant patch around that hole. If the area on my sock isn't quite that worn is it OK to make a smaller patch?
A life saving skill.
thanks for the info
Tom of Holland has a lot of great articles on different kinds of clothing repair! Particularly on visible mending.
thank you for the video, really helpful. do you have any video about mending at the bottom of jean by hand? thanks
First tutorial that wasn't crap. Thankyou I want to learn but I don't don't want it obvious or be embarrassed with a huge hill on my clothes
I always wanted to know how to do this.
Thanks!
Thank you so much! I will have to give this a try, my favorite pair of socks are more holes than socks at this point! 😂
That was incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Easy to follow instructions. Useful.
Thanks, I just fixed my first hole.