! Quick darning - PEP BB textile.sand.darn

I went looking for a sock where the heel had worn through, which is what I’ve typically darned in the past, but all I could find was this toenail-injured sock. The sock is super-wash but I hope the fact that this black yarn will felt will stabilize the hole.

Edward Norton wrote:Just saw the previous submissions after submitting. I have a horrible feeling this will fail . . . My BBV count is already -3 . . . I’m guessing this isn’t darning . . . Oh well, I’ll just have to wait and see.

I think I have a solution for you! Your darn looks like it would fit darn well in the Mend hole in pants or skirt BB! I'm going to just turn your post into a non-BB post, and you can post it over in the other thread, and I'll certify it over there!

Edward Norton wrote:...
Just saw the previous submissions after submitting. I have a horrible feeling this will fail . . . My BBV count is already -3 . . . I’m guessing this isn’t darning . . . Oh well, I’ll just have to wait and see.

You are right, Edward, this is NOT darning. But no problem, there is a different BB for repairing a hole! When you found that BB, please do submit your post there with the button in the middle, so we know you want it to be approved as a BB ...

Thank you Nicole and Inge. I have submit here

I darned a hole in a dish cloth / tea towel. Here are the steps I took.

Hey, skip team! My daughter's leggings have been ripped. A little blue thread and a long needle helped me to weave the hole closed. She's happy! And now I'm excited to be able to repair homemade or expensive woolen socks!!

This is a pair of my handspun handknit socks. I wore the soles and there was a small hole about fingernail size in one, and a thumb sized hole in the other. Plus they were thinning across the pad of the foot.
I have done a woven darn before and wanted to try a knitted darn. So I finally did! It's really easy, if you can knit a sock then you can totally do a knitted darn. I didn't think the yarn would unravel much more but I did use the tail to weave around the hole and weave it in, just to be sure.
After that I put a small jar in the sock and wove yarn up and down between the stitches across the thinning section for each sock. It's practically invisible.

"Since you darned two, and darned them so nicely, I think you could post pictures of one of the socks for the nicer darning BB: https://permies.com/wiki/152468/pep-textiles/Mend-darn-hole-sock-PEP" Exactly Nicole! I wanted to give the same advice.

I wore a hole in the knee of my favorite jeans. Used cotton embroidery floss, all 6 strands, as it was coincidentally the best match in thickness for the denim.
I used my own knee as a darning egg, which worked perfectly well, except it wasn’t exactly fun being bent so far for so long.

I noticed a hole in the first blanket I'd ever knit while waiting for my bread to rise. I figured it'd be a good candidate for this BB.
I realize in hindsight I made it a bit more difficult on myself because the place the hole is in has two different colors, and moss stitches, making it hard to repair invisibly. I think it came out okay despite that.

The hole in question


My yarn and needle. I figured a blue that was close enough to the original yarn I'd used would prevent it from clashing too much with the white.


In Progress


Done!


And a picture from about 3 feet away. The fix is very hard to see- I lost it like three times trying to get this picture