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#darning

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Naomi P

I found my foot-shaped darning egg and am, as predicted, full of glee. I’ve included a photo of it inside a sock heel with my hand gripping it, so you can see the idea. This sock doesn’t need darning, but if it did, the wooden form inside it would help support the sock and also keep me from accidentally sewing through two layers while darning.

Edit to add some more alt text I’d meant to put in before.

The end of the darning egg that’s shaped kind of like a foot is inside a sock heel, with the sock pulled around it to make a flat, smooth area that could be darned. My pinky beige hand is holding the sock around the handle so that it doesn’t flop around.
A wooden blobby thing on a green piece of fabric. One end is a handle, while the other is shaped more or less like the toe end of a shoe. It is stamped with the words “Foot-form patented” but the patent has probably expired by now.
#darning#mending
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FanCityKnits 🇺🇦🧶

I'm looking into a darning loom - I mean those thingies, that come with a bunch of hooks that are fixated over a wooden base with an elastic thread (speedweave or whatever they are named).

Are they as useful as they look in the pictures?

I have jeans, that get thin in the thigh area and I'm pondering, what kind of mending would work best. And also - those woven patches look kind of cute ...

Any input more than welcome. Sizes? Yarn (thickness, material)?

#mending #darning @fiberarts

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Petra van Cronenburg

Perhaps you remember my 🧵 about a new #VisibleMending project: mastodon.online/@NatureMC/1097

It will be part of a presentation in our #museum and #culturalheritage centre. I finished the #darning wild and intuitively. And was so fascinated by the colours that I worked on a textile #brooch (not yet ready) as an optical counterpart. I can even wear it without the #jumper! #embroidery #InstinctualStitching #WildStitching #ChaosEmbroidery #TextileArt #ArtistsOfMastodon #AtelierTetebrec #Collage

The vanilla yellow jumper had 2 holes at the belly. They are mended by threads and a patch of fabric. The stitches, circling around the big hole like an amoeba and a rhombus, are wild and chaotic. Above there's a textile brooch in the same pink and purple colours. Layered like a collage.
Macro of the darning. It looks like an abstract fish in pink and purple. Wild stitching. Background of the big hole is a striped pink fabric.
The brooch is layered like a collage with pink dotted and pink striped fabric scraps, an emerald green dotted scrap, some white lace, and a pink silk ribbon. It hangs on a safety pin. There's also a tiny scrap of roses with leaves, embroidered with French Knots. And a silver bead showing a spiral.
Macro of the tiny "roses" part. It was my first experiment with French Knots stitched on gauze. It's cut out and sewn on the top of the brooch onto the silk ribbon.
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Amelia McNamara

Realizing I never did an #introduction. I'm Amelia McNamara, an assistant professor of statistics. I love #data, especially non-traditional data like text. I'm an #RStats nerd to the extreme, and my research focuses on how computer tools can support statistics/data science learning. I love looking at #DataVis and wish I got more opportunities to make it, although teaching it is fun, too! My hobbies include repairing my #Volvo240, #Darning, and reading speculative fiction.

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