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Darn it! How to mend holey socks at home


With a few tools it’s possible to bring back your favourite pair of lost soles from sock-drawer purgatory

A discomfort and inconvenience so slight it’s easy to forget to remedy it until once again you’re rummaging through drawers searching for a pair in the right colour that haven’t been split by your big toenail or worn out at the heel. As someone who thinks constantly about sustainable fashion and spends a lot of money getting clothes repaired and restored (albeit never socks) this revelation has probably surprised me more than it should. Photograph: Lucianne Tonti“Now I’m going to do exactly what I just did, but in the opposite direction,” De Castro Keeling says – that is, create perpendicular vertical lines of stitches that cross the horizontal ones.

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