Mending socks

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

We’ve all been there – you’re putting on your favorite sweater, hat, or socks and spot a dreaded hole! All hope is not lost, though! See our easy and fun visible knitwear mending how-to guide for quick tips & fixes

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.

Scottish darning involves rounds of blanket stitch that build on one another to create a stretchy fabric, great for mending a circular shape.

With St Nicolas around the corner, I thought a post on socks was quite appropriate. Am I the only one whose socks always fail in the same place? It seems a waste to get rid of socks because they ha…

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Well, after considerable rummaging I have turned up the directions for the Swiss darning mend mentioned in my last post. I hope you can make some sense of it. I have used it twice before, once for a bachelor friend, to fix a hole in his Sunday best sweater, and the other for another friend whose puppy had chewed a hole in her husband's brand new sweater. Oh dear. In the interests of the popularity of both the puppy and my friend I had to make that mend as un-noticeable as possible. The…