#darning — Public Fediverse posts
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Sock mending skill-share
At the May Day Gathering 2026 in so-called Kingston, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2 PM – 7 PM
(Skill-share time TBD)
Forsyth Park, “Kingston, NY”Mend what you’ve got and keep using it! Don’t know how? Come to the skill-share to learn to darn your socks.
Bring your holey socks and any mending materials you’d like to use. There will also be plenty of materials available at the skill-share.
#MayDay #anarchism #gathering #mending #darning #skillShare #repair #AGarlandForMayDay
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Sock mending skill-share
At the May Day Gathering 2026 in so-called Kingston, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2 PM – 7 PM
(Skill-share time TBD)
Forsyth Park, “Kingston, NY”Mend what you’ve got and keep using it! Don’t know how? Come to the skill-share to learn to darn your socks.
Bring your holey socks and any mending materials you’d like to use. There will also be plenty of materials available at the skill-share.
#MayDay #anarchism #gathering #mending #darning #skillShare #repair #AGarlandForMayDay
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Sock mending skill-share
At the May Day Gathering 2026 in so-called Kingston, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2 PM – 7 PM
(Skill-share time TBD)
Forsyth Park, “Kingston, NY”Mend what you’ve got and keep using it! Don’t know how? Come to the skill-share to learn to darn your socks.
Bring your holey socks and any mending materials you’d like to use. There will also be plenty of materials available at the skill-share.
#MayDay #anarchism #gathering #mending #darning #skillShare #repair #AGarlandForMayDay
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Sock mending skill-share
At the May Day Gathering 2026 in so-called Kingston, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2 PM – 7 PM
(Skill-share time TBD)
Forsyth Park, “Kingston, NY”Mend what you’ve got and keep using it! Don’t know how? Come to the skill-share to learn to darn your socks.
Bring your holey socks and any mending materials you’d like to use. There will also be plenty of materials available at the skill-share.
#MayDay #anarchism #gathering #mending #darning #skillShare #repair #AGarlandForMayDay
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Sock mending skill-share
At the May Day Gathering 2026 in so-called Kingston, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2 PM – 7 PM
(Skill-share time TBD)
Forsyth Park, “Kingston, NY”Mend what you’ve got and keep using it! Don’t know how? Come to the skill-share to learn to darn your socks.
Bring your holey socks and any mending materials you’d like to use. There will also be plenty of materials available at the skill-share.
#MayDay #anarchism #gathering #mending #darning #skillShare #repair #AGarlandForMayDay
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The darning will continue until socks improve!
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I set aside my embroidery this week to resume some darning.
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Repairing my clothing is an almost weekly task for me. It could really be a daily task if I wanted it to be. There are enough repairs to make.
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Fri Feb 6th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, 447 Main St, Norway, ME 04268, USA"Please join our Education Working Group for our free monthly repair cafes!
Our February cafe will focus on #ski waxing and tuning and #Snowshoe repair.
All cafes will provide materials and guidance for #sewing (#patching, #darning, #buttons), #ceramics repair, simple jewelry fixes (non-soldering), leather shoe maintenance, #Knifesharpening, #LampCords, and other minor repairs.
Don't have any repair needs at present? Please consider bringing your own repair skills to share!"
https://www.ecologybasedeconomy.org/events
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMaine #RepairCafes #FixIt #RightToRepair #Mending #MaineEvents
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Fri Feb 6th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, 447 Main St, Norway, ME 04268, USA"Please join our Education Working Group for our free monthly repair cafes!
Our February cafe will focus on #ski waxing and tuning and #Snowshoe repair.
All cafes will provide materials and guidance for #sewing (#patching, #darning, #buttons), #ceramics repair, simple jewelry fixes (non-soldering), leather shoe maintenance, #Knifesharpening, #LampCords, and other minor repairs.
Don't have any repair needs at present? Please consider bringing your own repair skills to share!"
https://www.ecologybasedeconomy.org/events
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMaine #RepairCafes #FixIt #RightToRepair #Mending #MaineEvents
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Fri Feb 6th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, 447 Main St, Norway, ME 04268, USA"Please join our Education Working Group for our free monthly repair cafes!
Our February cafe will focus on #ski waxing and tuning and #Snowshoe repair.
All cafes will provide materials and guidance for #sewing (#patching, #darning, #buttons), #ceramics repair, simple jewelry fixes (non-soldering), leather shoe maintenance, #Knifesharpening, #LampCords, and other minor repairs.
Don't have any repair needs at present? Please consider bringing your own repair skills to share!"
https://www.ecologybasedeconomy.org/events
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMaine #RepairCafes #FixIt #RightToRepair #Mending #MaineEvents
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Fri Feb 6th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, 447 Main St, Norway, ME 04268, USA"Please join our Education Working Group for our free monthly repair cafes!
Our February cafe will focus on #ski waxing and tuning and #Snowshoe repair.
All cafes will provide materials and guidance for #sewing (#patching, #darning, #buttons), #ceramics repair, simple jewelry fixes (non-soldering), leather shoe maintenance, #Knifesharpening, #LampCords, and other minor repairs.
Don't have any repair needs at present? Please consider bringing your own repair skills to share!"
https://www.ecologybasedeconomy.org/events
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMaine #RepairCafes #FixIt #RightToRepair #Mending #MaineEvents
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Fri Feb 6th 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy, 447 Main St, Norway, ME 04268, USA"Please join our Education Working Group for our free monthly repair cafes!
Our February cafe will focus on #ski waxing and tuning and #Snowshoe repair.
All cafes will provide materials and guidance for #sewing (#patching, #darning, #buttons), #ceramics repair, simple jewelry fixes (non-soldering), leather shoe maintenance, #Knifesharpening, #LampCords, and other minor repairs.
Don't have any repair needs at present? Please consider bringing your own repair skills to share!"
https://www.ecologybasedeconomy.org/events
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafesMaine #RepairCafes #FixIt #RightToRepair #Mending #MaineEvents
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Visible mending, because of course I am virtue signaling. Colours are not nearly as harsh IRL.
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Boomers share 20 life skills they're proud they learned but are rarely used today
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///🄯 Darning///
« Darning » is a proposal to create a collective wall drawing placed under the Free Art License based on an idea by Philippe Poupet.
https://repriser.philippepoupet.com/
Find more resources at https://www.libresites.org
#Darning #drawing #mural #collective #art #experimental #Art_Libre #Philippe_Poupet -
Today I learned how to do Swiss darning (aka duplicate stitch) on a thinning sock heel.
Pros:
+ Relaxing to work
+ Opportunity to use the World's Most Beautiful Darning Egg (pictured)
+ Invisible with matching yarnCons:
- Slower than standard darning
- For thinning not holey socks
- Invisible with matching yarn - which makes it harder to tell where you're up to!Overall, a method I'd happily use again. I just need to monitor the state of my sock heels a bit more closely.
#mending #darning #TIL -
Mildly interesting: my socks always fail on the big toe on the right foot (which is a size larger than the left one).
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Went to the local outdoor shop to buy the stuff and they said I should try darning it first. The glued patch would rub right off again like @glowl said. I’ll try and when the daring failed I’ll sew a patch on.
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given a new life
the warmth of an old blanket
filling the sock hole(February's kigo, "blanket", is a 2-for-1. Here's the first...)
🧦 Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/6085164
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series#FountainPenInk #Ink #haiku #poetry #socks #darning #mending #cozy
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Got some #mending done today after work; patched up an old swimsuit and used my #darning egg for the first time on a pair of socks. :catjam: The second pair of socks was too threadbare to darn, so I cut out a piece of scrap fabric roughly the same shape as the sole and whip-stitched it on. It's not pretty, but it's functional. No pictures due to ugliness, but I plan to wear the latter pair of socks tomorrow and I will report back on how they felt/held up
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🧵 1/ My new #VisibleMending project: This linen-yarn T-shirt is a memento of my dog, who once got stuck at the bottom with his claw and tore a hole. It's darned in the shape of a yellow beetle. To make the whole thing more harmonious, I'm going to do a few small appliqués elsewhere today.
#yarn #silk #sareeSilk #upcycling #recycling #repair #FastFashionSucks #slowFashion #beetle #memento #darning #wildStitching #intuitiveStitching #embroidery
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"There's nothing quite as pathetic as a charmer whose charm has let him down, unless it's a charmer with hands like meat hooks trying to learn how to darn."
Amiant Soul
https://deborah.makarios.nz/amiant-soul/
#books #quote #AmiantSoul #mending #darning -
Today I had another oddly disquieting inter-generational failure to communicate. It reminded me of the time I tried to explain Sears catalogue to my hairdresser.
The strata council (a.k.a. home owners’ association board) that manages all things structural and mechanical in my building had arranged for all the fire alarms to be tested today. I knew that inspectors were coming and was ready for someone to come into my unit and test my smoke and fire alarms.
The technician, who was tall enough to check the alarms in my ceiling without standing on a chair or a ladder, dutifully checked everything and declared all to be hunky dory. He explained that I should expect to hear the fire alarms tested later in the day but that I should not be alarmed; it would just be a test of the alarms. So, not at all alarming.
Before he left my apartment, though, he pointed out a shadow box that I have on my wall and asked me about the object that I had placed within it. He wanted to know what it was. The conversation went something like this:
He: What is that?
Me: It is a darning toadstool.
He: What is it for?
Me: Darning socks. My mother used to darn my father’s socks.
He: Ironing? She ironed socks?
Me: No, darning. Mending.
(At this point he looked completely baffled so I felt the need to explain using hand gestures.)
Me: She repaired holes in socks by sewing. (My fingers showing the darning process, weaving a needle and yarn in and out.)
He: OK. (But clearly not.) I have never heard of that before.
This brought back memories of my childhood when my mother would knit socks for my dad using three double-ended needles in a circular fashion. He wore those socks every day, and when a heel wore a hole in a sock, my mum would darn it. The darning toadstool is one of the few things I have of my mother’s and it brings up warm memories.
As you can see from the photos, it is a well-used toadstool. The picture in the back of the shadow box was taken at my parents’ wedding in 1932 and the medal was won by my father for wrestling (Olympic style) at the Pembroke Athletic Club.
Both those items were significant in my parents’ eyes, but the humble toadstool has the most significance in mine.
https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2023/12/14/darn-it/
#memories #mending #darning #toadstool #shadowBox #generationalDifferences
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Where are socks, there is mend. Two of my handknitted beauties got holes, one at the shaft, the second on the sole. For the one with the pattern i chose a weaving technique with a corresponding colour (all hail to the bag with the leftovers), the second (vanilla) one got a hole on the leg. I chose a contrasting colour and Scottish darning for embellishment. #mending #darning #sockdarning #scottishdarning #sustainability #visiblemending #invisiblemending #mendnotspend
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Where are socks, there is mend. Two of my handknitted beauties got holes, one at the shaft, the second on the sole. For the one with the pattern i chose a weaving technique with a corresponding colour (all hail to the bag with the leftovers), the second (vanilla) one got a hole on the leg. I chose a contrasting colour and Scottish darning for embellishment. #mending #darning #sockdarning #scottishdarning #sustainability #visiblemending #invisiblemending #mendnotspend
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Where are socks, there is mend. Two of my handknitted beauties got holes, one at the shaft, the second on the sole. For the one with the pattern i chose a weaving technique with a corresponding colour (all hail to the bag with the leftovers), the second (vanilla) one got a hole on the leg. I chose a contrasting colour and Scottish darning for embellishment. #mending #darning #sockdarning #scottishdarning #sustainability #visiblemending #invisiblemending #mendnotspend
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Where are socks, there is mend. Two of my handknitted beauties got holes, one at the shaft, the second on the sole. For the one with the pattern i chose a weaving technique with a corresponding colour (all hail to the bag with the leftovers), the second (vanilla) one got a hole on the leg. I chose a contrasting colour and Scottish darning for embellishment. #mending #darning #sockdarning #scottishdarning #sustainability #visiblemending #invisiblemending #mendnotspend
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In einen guten, stabilen Stopfpilz zu investieren, spart auf lange Sicht ganz schön viel Geld.
#Stopfpilz #mending #darning #stopfen #mendnotspend #sustainability
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In einen guten, stabilen Stopfpilz zu investieren, spart auf lange Sicht ganz schön viel Geld.
#Stopfpilz #mending #darning #stopfen #mendnotspend #sustainability
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A bit of #VisibleMending on my favorite jeans. The original rivet/button ripped off, so i darned the home in the denim with embroidery thread. Then, i found a fun, shimmery, lime green button in my #ButtonCollection and sewed it on. What so you think?
This pair of jeans already has patches on the insides of the thighs. I reckon I'll be patching these up for decades.🪡🧵🧷👖
#RepairReuseRewear #MakeMendAndMakeDo #darning #PatchedJeans #SustainableFashion -
Perhaps you remember my 🧵 about a new #VisibleMending project: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/109711176108409819
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
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Might be possible to do a spot of darning on the worn heel area. Not sure of the best technique though. #darning #repairingThings
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Might be possible to do a spot of darning on the worn heel area. Not sure of the best technique though. #darning #repairingThings
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Might be possible to do a spot of darning on the worn heel area. Not sure of the best technique though. #darning #repairingThings
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Maybe someday my #mending will be insta-worthy #inspo but today it was an exercise in frustration. So I’m sharing the best of a bad lot and reminding myself that #DoneIsBetterThanPerfect. #darning #VisibleMending #MakeDoAndMend #handsewing
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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.
