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It would appear that there are enough lurkers on this newsgroup to hold a conversation after all -- all it needs is for each of us to start a thread.

So -- do your hand-knits get worn enough to require repair? If so, what is your favorite method?

I have picked up stitches and knit new toes onto socks, but I've never done the bit where you ravel a hole rectangular, pick up stitches and knit a patch, then weave it in at the top and edges. Does anyone here know whether it works?

What is your favorite darn? After trying many methods, I've settled on interlocking rows of buttonhole stitch for nearly all knits and some wovens.

What do you use for darning wool? I still have a little Medici, and right now I'm using spun silk (Gueterman sewing thread) to darn a pair of wool slacks.

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Joy Beeson
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I haven't worn my hand-knits enough to fix them, but I felted 2 pairs of socks by accident last winter. Both were washed in warm water and hung to dry, but I put them in the machine, and they didn't like that much agitation I guess. So now I have 2 pairs of beautiful socks 2 sizes too small. Guess I'll just donate them because there's not much else I can do. From the time I noticed this I started knitting socks ONLY with superwash. It works much much better. I still hang them, though they are supposedly okay in the dryer. I just can't do that.

My method of darning a sock is to stick the darning egg in, find some matching yarn and just kind of weave back and forth hooking onto the first spot that isn't raveled along each edge. Nothing too fancy....just homegrown repairs.

June

Reply to
Briggs

Yes, we've just been waiting... ;)

I get an occasional snag, hardly ever breaks the yarn though.

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suzeeq

I have done that, and it did work, but the thing that mostly gets worn into disuse is my mittens, and it only works a couple of times. Still, it gets me an extra couple of years use out of them. I need to make me more mittens now.

I only darn handknitted stuff, so I use the same yarn I used in the first place. For children's trousers that go through at the knees, I just cut them down into shorts, lazy I know, and tights get turned into toy stuffing or fingerless gloves.

Kirsten

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Kirsten Watson

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mirjam

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