So I was rather disappointed to see a weak spot developing on the heel of a pair I made last April. Less than a year later and you could just about see through the stitches in that one spot. But I knew that a hole would be worse, so I set them aside with the intent to learn how to reinforce the weakened stitches aka darning.
It only took me 4 months or so to get up enough gumption to give it a go. On Monday, I finally did. I Googled instructions and other helpful info on sock darning. I learned that the kind of darning I needed to do is called "Swiss darning" or duplicate stitch. I found a really good video tutorial here. Armed with this info, the yarn leftovers from making this pair of socks (saved for just such an emergency!), a yarn needle, and a darning egg, I set forth into the realm of sock darning to tame the mighty sock beast! Uh. Oops! What I meant was to fix the weakened stitches. But taming a sock beast sounds much more exciting, don't you think?
Of course, I didn't think to take a "before" photo. So you'll have to take my word for it when I tell you if I had but worn these colorful sockies even one more time, I would have had to learn how to fix a hole in my sock instead!
the darned socks!
{note: only one actually needed darning at this time. thankfully, i've got lots of yarn leftovers remaining so this pair should last me a very long time now that i know how to darn 'em!}
{here you can see the darned stitches where the brighter not-yet-faded yarn is! :D}
So that was my knitting (repair) lesson for this week!
Actually, I also learned how to do an invisible double increase as well. But I won't bore you with that story. At least, I won't today. [grin]
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