Darning Socks

@T. Riley I do not think it is supposed to swivel. I showed the kid your darning egg and we talked about attaching it. I think it will be easy to make if we have the correct tools

 

I am going to make one too. I am going to die a wooden egg with the brightest Easter egg die I can find then polish it with bee's wax to seal it. Haven't figured the stem out but I think I am going to drill a 1/8 or smaller hole 1 1/2 inches into small end. Then squirt glue in the hole and force the stem in. I am going to make the stem out of an old silver fork by cutting the end off and grinding the small end to fit the hole. We'll see. They are called Victorian Darning Eggs and sell for $20 to $100+ Online.

 

One of the standard items contained in the shaving kits of military personnel is a small sewing kit for replacing buttons and minor repairs. Also, the habit of having a sewing kit available came in handy for using the needles to pick splinters. Years later, a civilian career of wearing steel-toed shoes and boots caused premature wear of socks around the toes. New socks just didn't last long. It became a standard practice to separate the holey socks into a reject pile until the time and motivation was sufficient to initiate a "stitch-up session." It's become a life-long habit. Don't have a darning egg. I'm doing good just to make a close match of thread color to sock color. When there is no thread color match, black thread is the usual stand-by. My remaining old pairs of socks, now relegated to yard work, are a bit stitchy-looking to say the least!

 

One of my most wasteful and selfish practices is donating all my white socks once a year and buying 30 identical quality pairs. (Maybe I should store the old ones back for hard times.)

I do have a bunch of smartwool socks that are oddballs by color. Under boots, nobody knows.

If I ever hit the big times, I’ll never wear a used pair of socks again.

 

I remember seeing photo in a high school history book where a young child somewhere in the Balkans during WWII was using a hand grenade to darn socks.

 

Potentially a way of making a small hole bigger.

 

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And aviators....
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Darning a sock using a lit lightbulb...illuminating...

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