Update on friends SM

I take "darning egg" literally and use plastic Easter eggs. They come in assorted sizes, and you can store your needle and yarn inside.

Only on socks that run $20 or more a pair and have small holes. Not so funny.

I machine darn the girls' cotton tights and more expensive socks.

--Betsy

Le 12/10/2010 04:35, Joy Beeson a écrit :

Clever idea.

Claire in Montréal France. http:// snipped-for-privacy@free.fr

How long does it take you do perform a perfect darn? At $$$ per hour... the socks are VERY expensive.

I do acknowledge that the sewing we do for love is priceless.

There's a story in my family about a man who is driving in the country when he sees a farmer in an apple orchard, and the farmer is holding a pig up to an apple tree so the pig can eat apples. As the man watches (he was so taken by this, he stopped his car), the farmer moves to another tree, where the pig can reach more apples. This continues for a while until the man can't stand it anymore. He gets out of the car and walks over to the fence where he strikes up a conversation with the farmer. After a few pleasantries, comments about the weather, market prices, etc., the man inquires if it wouldn't save a lot of time if the farmer put the pig on the ground and just shook a few trees.

The farmer thinks this over carefully before replying, "Yup, I could do that, but, what's time to a pig?"

So, I darn the occasional sock.

Now *that's* the kind of thinking I appreciate from the NG. Absolute genius and poetically just.

Alex

"Darned Sock!" ;-)