It's like patching but it's not, it's like mending, but's not....what is darning?
2007-11-10 13:14:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I'm not a senior, but after reading your question, I asked my grandmother if she had ever "darned" something. After she had a pretty good chuckle over the terminology, she said she had. To darn a sock, she said, you slip the sock with the offending hole in it over a light bulb (don't ask me what they used before Edison's handiwork). Then, using a similar thread or yarn as the sock, sew the hole neatly leaving little or no uncomfortable seam where there should be none.
That's the best answer I can come up with, using my granny's expertise on the subject. Short answer, it's sewing/mending.
2007-11-10 13:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by Dustelightful 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I have darned many a sock for my Dad after my Mom died, and I can tell you that Blue Juliet has the right method, except I would add that when you are working at the edges of the hole, YOU MUST anchor the new yarn well into the solid weaving beyond the edge. If you anchor the darned edges too shallowly, you will have your darned patch pulling away the first time it is worn.
2007-11-10 16:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's darning a sock...
there is a wooden tool you slide into the sock so that you have a hard surface to work on... you weave your thread back and forth, from both directions until you have mended the hole in the sock!
Thread is expensive now days, socks are cheap...
I recommend buying new ones!
Back in the day, socks were made by hand! And they were not comfortable!
2007-11-10 13:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a form of mending socks, etc. When I used to darn socks back in the old days, DARN is what I said when I stuck myself with the sewing needle.
2007-11-10 13:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by mydearsie 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My parents had a thing that looked similar to a light bulb they would slip into the sock and mend the hole, it was called darning.
2007-11-11 02:06:52 · answer #5 · answered by drg5609 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following is the simplest form of darning:
You stabilize the material to be darned by using a tool such as a darning egg with the item stretched over it.
Using a darning needle and thread, anchor the thread at one edge of the hole and draw the thread over the hole to the other side. Go back and forth over the hole in one direction. Then weave the thread over and under these threads from side to side, covering the hole with a patch of thread.
2007-11-10 13:23:35 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I will be senior soon,ah several more years ,so I am learning how to darn. Darning is making horizontal sewing on a hole in material,then run the needle w/ thread vertical up and down on the horizontal threads, to make a net. And that is Darning.
2007-11-10 13:47:59 · answer #7 · answered by Vannili 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Infragable Dustee has it right for the most part. The reason for the light bulb, Mom used a wooden egg, was to stretch the hole open then she stitched in a weaving pattern. First one way than across weaving the needle in and out.
2007-11-11 08:59:06 · answer #8 · answered by Ray T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it was interchangeable with a word for sewing. I looked it up, to mend or repair by sewing a network of stitches. across the gap
2007-11-10 13:24:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
We used to put a light bulb inside the sock and just sew the hole shut.
2007-11-10 13:28:31 · answer #10 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋