How to mend a hole in the heel of a sock. Non-traditional repair of woolen socks. Darning in the technique of dry felting. Here is a diagram of a classic darning

Woolen socks are comfortable, warm and natural "clothing" for the feet, which keeps the warmth of the hands that created them. But, unfortunately, the less synthetics in the yarn, the sooner they come out and fail. And then comes darning time. To darn woolen socks with high quality, without rough scars and tightening, you need to know how to do it right.

You will need

• A holey sock, a gypsy needle, yarn in a matching or contrasting color, a light bulb, and a little patience.

Instruction

Before you get started, you should decide what exactly you want to end up with: a sock that looks like new, with an inconspicuous darning, or a completely new, somewhat designer product. Having made this decision, you choose threads of the same (for the first option) or a contrasting color (for option 2) and get to work. You can darn both on the front and on the wrong side of the product.

You need to sit comfortably near a bright light source, thread the yarn, folded in half, into the eye of a gypsy needle (if you can’t do this directly, you can thread a regular thread into a loop of thicker thread, and thus pull out a thin thread and then a thick one) ). Then you should take a cleanly washed and dried sock, insert a large light bulb inside it (or a special wooden mallet with a large round tip), distributing the surface of the sock so that the hole is spread as much as possible over the top of the light bulb.

You can get to work. If the hole in the sock is small or even just outlined, it is enough to start with a circular strengthening of the edges, and then proceed to successively throwing the thread from edge to edge in order to create an artificial patch. You yourself will feel when you need to stop, because the patch should not interfere with your walking.

If the hole is large, then you will have to work hard: after circular processing of the hole, in order to properly fix the edges from subsequent spreading, you can, armed with a small flap of thick soft fabric (such as elastic knitwear), sew it into the hole, fixing from edge to edge, penetrating stitches through the entire thickness of the edge of the sock and auxiliary fabric. It is very important to be extremely careful so that the joint of the edge turns out to be quite dense, but at the same time does not injure the skin of the leg when walking.

After the main work is completed, and the hole is completely hidden under a good layer of fresh yarn, you need to carefully hide the tip of the thread, it is best to do this in the sock canvas, not the patch.

Long live your socks!

The ability to neatly and beautifully put a dense darn on clothes has always been valued in the household. Timely minor repairs will help extend the life of your favorite thing.

You will need

• - sock with a hole;
• - yarn to match the sock;
• - needle;
• - scissors;
• - darning egg (fungus).

Instruction

Instead of a fungus (egg) for darning, you can use any hard object with roundness, such as a bottle, a wooden egg or a light bulb. Position the hole over the darning mushroom and cut off any loose yarn that sticks out. Stretch the damaged material well on the fungus. Now take a long thread of yarn and thread it into the needle.

Create the basis for the patch. Stitch a square around the outside of the hole, threading the needle through four loops away from the edge of the hole and continuing the chain of stitches on all four sides, secure.

Then start stretching guide horizontal lines of yarn from side to side across the entire area of ​​the hole from above. Arrange the threads tightly in several rows, while slightly tightening the edges. Horizontal threads can start with 3 deep stitches from an intact toe surface.

The end of the yarn should end up in the bottom right corner and continue on its way to the top right corner of the darning area. Therefore, thread with a needle in a vertical direction through the stretched horizontal rows up and duplicate the stitch over the existing (intact) loop.

Next, when you reach the hole, use the previously created horizontal guide lines. In the horizontal direction, pull the thread through the stretched row and pass the needle with the thread under the nearest vertical row, returning back, pass the needle through the last loop and bring it out under the working thread.

For those who are just learning to knit, the simplest product is a scarf. But socks - this is almost the height of skill. But really binda woolen sock is within the power of even a novice needlewoman, who has barely learned how to knit the front and back loops.

Five knitting needles and a ball of thread

You can knit woolen socks with knitting needles in different ways. For example, on five or two knitting needles, high and short, with different decor. But you should always start work with the choice of yarn and knitting needles. It is clear that the thicker the yarn, the thicker the working knitting needles should be.

Basically, the principle of selecting yarn and knitting needles is as follows: the thread that you like and suitable for a particular model is folded in half, twisted slightly, and knitting needles of equal thickness are selected for the resulting skein.

New quick socks

How to knit woolen socks to be fast? For example, for size 36, dial on 4 knitting needles No. 3, 12 loops = 48. The simplest and most reliable elastic band is 1 to 1. She should knit the height of the sock for the desired number of centimeters. Then, leaving the work on one knitting needle, knit a heel on three of them. This part must be strong enough, since it is the heel that wears out the fastest. In order to get a dense, reliable and beautiful fabric, knitting should be like this:

1. Remove one loop, knit the second, and so the whole row to the end.
2. The reverse row is knitted completely purl.
3. The first and second rows are repeated to the height of the heel.
4. Knitting again needs to be divided into three knitting needles with 12 loops on each.
5. The main fabric is knitted on the middle loop, but the side knitting needles help form the heel itself. To do this, the extreme loop of each row must be knitted together with the first loop on the side knitting needle.

When the heel is formed, knitting is again carried out in a circle. The loops on the knitting needles get from the edges of the heel. If there are more of them than necessary for the volume of the trace, then the decrease is best done along the line of the toe.

To knittedwoolen socks sat well on the leg, knitting on the knitting needle, which forms the upper part of the product, can be continued with an elastic band, and all other parts of the fabric (sidewalls and footprint) - with front surface.

beautiful socks

All the beauty of socks is always on the top. Therefore, it can be decorated with braids and lace. For example, a braid of 6 loops for weaving 3 by 3 looks beautiful on children's and women's products. If there is a desire to knit fishnet socks, then the pattern can be used only on the upper part of the thing - like a trace of openwork. So it will not be necessary to calculate rapports and the number of loops.

Men will appreciate Scandinavian-style socks - with a jacquard pattern. For such work, you will have to count the number of loops for rapport so that the pattern matches the loops. Jacquard is easier to knit in two colors, although experienced craftswomen work with multi-color patterns. This is painstaking work, the threads must be twisted behind the canvas, they get confused and slow down all the work. Two colors in jacquard will cause fewer problems. In any case, the heel should still be knitted with reinforcement, so the work will not go to waste after a few days of using socks.

Pyatkin's secrets

The most problematic place in socks is the trace. This is where the holes appear first, especially on the heels. To woolen socks have served longer, you can associate them with gain:

• add a synthetic thread, such as nylon;
• use a special knitting method.

But still, this does not always save from holes. The question then arises: how to darn woolen socks?" It's easy to do.

hole masking

Any thing must be looked after, repairing the problems that have appeared in time. With wardrobe hosiery, you should do the same, avoiding the transformation of socks into a sieve. Small abrasions must be immediately strengthened with thin synthetic threads, stitching the future hole with small stitches in different directions. How to darn woolen socks correctly?

Darning guide

In order for a leaky woolen sock to still serve, it should be properly darned.

• Lay the canvas on a flat, smooth, preferably rounded surface. Not so long ago, every housewife in a box of co had an ordinary incandescent light bulb, using it as a darning device. The light bulb is smooth, round, small in size, and the base is a kind of handle, which made it possible not only to hold the work on weight, but also to turn it in the right direction.
• Pick up threads that are suitable in color and thickness. It should be noted that a properly made darning will be almost twice as thick as yarn, so you can choose threads a little thinner than the yarn of the sock itself;
• The needle should be long enough, especially if the hole is already large. With a long needle it will be more convenient to weave the threads.
• The working thread is fixed on a strong fabric with a few reverse stitches.
• First, the hole should be strengthened around the edges by laying small stitches in a circle on a strong canvas.
• The first layer of darning is laid in several rows, close together, with an exciting and strong fabric that will hold the darning when worn.
• The second layer is transverse weaving, which should be done by picking up the threads one at a time: pick up one thread from above, the next from below. In the opposite direction, the thread that was on top should become the bottom, and vice versa.

W wool sock during darning, it must be pulled over a smooth surface. The darning itself does not need to be pulled or tightened, it must correspond to the tension of the product itself.

Socks are a must. They can be not only functionally necessary, but also constitute an element of the wardrobe that creates an image. They can be worn only for warmth, or you can love socks, especially if they are connected by a loved one. Parting with torn socks can be a shame for many reasons. Then they should be darned according to all the rules so that they continue to be useful.

It would seem that what is so difficult about darning socks, but seeing how socks are darned in various ways ... you involuntarily think about the best.

	So, let's see, it looks like a completely ordinary sock.
	But when magnified, we see a hole in one of its parts.
	To darn this sock, we need the following materials: the sock itself, cotton thread, scissors, a needle and a light bulb. Yes, it is a light bulb (exactly the way my grandmother taught me to darn socks, I will share the same method with you).
	Next, insert this light bulb inside the sock, where the hole is located.
	Now we need to grab all the empty loops in one direction with a needle and thread, one stitch should grab about 2-3 loops so that the sock does not continue to unravel, so be sure not to skip a single one. It should turn out, the basis of the longitudinal threads.
	Now we turn the needle and begin to weave the threads in the transverse direction, grabbing each thread in turn from above and below with the needle, while making stitches along the edges. And so we twist until the sock is completely repaired, it should turn out to be a kind of network, and the denser the better. Look what I got - the sock looks almost like new.

How to darn woolen socks with large holes? Yes, in principle, also, only the process of directly darning takes much more time, and in some cases it is easier to throw out this sock.

The ability to carefully and beautifully apply plugs to clothes was always appreciated in the house. Timely minor repairs will help extend the life of your favorite things.

What tools do we need

• Toe with hole;
• Yarn to match the sock;
• Needle;
• Scissors;
• darning egg (fungus).

Management

1. Instead of a fungus (egg) for darning, you can use any hard object with roundness, for example, a bottle, a wooden egg or incandescent lamps. Place the hole on the darning mushroom and trim off any loose threads of yarn. It is good to pull the damaged material on the fungus. Now take a long thread of yarn and start the needle.

2. Create a base for correction. Sew a square stitch around the outside of the hole, passing the needle through four loops away from the edge of the hole and continuing the chain of stitches on all four sides, attach.

3. Then start from above to stretch through the entire area of ​​​​the opening of the guide horizontal lines of yarn from side to side. Imagine the threads tightly in several rows while slightly tightening the edge. Horizontal threads originate at 3 engraving depths from an intact toe surface.

4. The end of the thread should be in the lower right corner and further on your way, in the upper right corner of the darning place. Thus, the thread with the needle is carried out in the vertical direction of the tense horizontal rows from above and I copy the lines on the existing (intact) loop.

5. Next, after reaching the hole, use the previously created horizontal guides. In the horizontal direction, pull the thread through the tense series, and pass the needle with the thread under the nearest vertical row, return, go the needle through the last loop and bring it out under the working thread.

6. It should be borne in mind that when moving from top to bottom, creating a loop, take the needle should be below the leader line. In this direction, the vertical column go with the stitch, to the bottom of the square and make 3 stitch loops for the entire loop further from the edge of the hole.

7. Then the needle and thread pass through the guides at the top of the square. And starting at the top, secure the stitch in place, working from the second pillar.

8. In this order, darn the entire surface of the damaged area and on the fingers. The result should be a very smooth, well-groomed and beautiful darning.

This method is similar to Swiss (V-shaped) cork with some modifications. The loops in Swiss darning are made starting from the bottom of the hole, and here, from top to bottom, from the guides (horizontally), threads, yarn.