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I have a couple of wooden darning eggs and when ready to graft, drop one down the leg and it ends up at the toe.
The family cat had a fondness for wool and often chewed holes in things that had been left on the floor, so the darning egg saw a lot of use.
I have a collection of wooden darning mushrooms which belonged to my grandmother who made socks.
There's a darning needle, of course, a threader, a hemostat, and an Army survival tool.
We were doing the mending after breakfast, pushing darning eggs down into the heels of Father's socks, hoping to make them last another winter.
Socks are so cheap that it would be lunacy to spend time darning them and plastic is so cheap it is almost free.
At first I gave it some rudimentary household chores, such as changing gramophone needles and darning stockings.
Other common names for dragonflies include sewing needles, devil's darning needles, snake doctors, horse stingers, and mosquito hawks.
In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together.
While Linda is in the kitchen darning stockings, he moves to the edge of the stage.
Many of the gypsies ignored her, sitting outside their tents, preparing a meal or darning a sock or mending a hem.
Not only is it good for dental hygiene but it can also be used as a clothes line, cotton for darning clothes or string for tying things up.
Children are able to take on the roles of evacuees, undertaking a variety of war-time tasks such as darning socks or making rag rugs.
In earlier times, socks were mended with the use of a wooden darning egg, a practice rarely seen today.
These darning eggs are hand turned on a wood lathe and then hand painted with durable paint.
They are made from pieces of muslin, constructed like a rag doll stuffed with scraps, with the outer surface covered with parallel darning stitches.
We microwave our dinners, movies come out on DVD mere weeks after they're released, and instead of darning a sock with a hole in it, folks simply buy a new pair.
You can use the darning technique to repair small holes in socks and other clothing. With a darning needle and yarn, you'll form a network of stitches across the gap.
The much-more-likely scenario is an activist, holed up in a south Wales fitting room, hastily darning her protests.
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Aunt has found out the slit, and poor I will be set to the darning to-morrow.
Her mother moved her chair to follow it and dropped her darning egg, which the girl handed to her.
It is generally sewed on with a darning needle, threaded with a very fine strand of raffia.
In all this piece of work there is to be noted a great deal of buttonholing and darning.
We shan't have to do any darning, but just embroidery in our cells and wax flowers.
He found him with a stocking on one hand, a darning needle in the other, and a Greek book open before him.
His neck was as thin as a darning needle but his stomach was as large as a hickory nut, and just as hard.
Wendy's favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed.
Miss clotilda had left off her darning in the interest of the conversation.
Some call the dragon fly a darning needle, and say it sews up people's ears when they lie on the grass.
The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty.
Betty, why do you sit up at this hour of the night darning your stockings?
Jim's mother looked thoughtfully at the sock she was darning.
Then her mother looked up from the stockings she was darning.
Iris propped the book up against her basket and went on darning.
Is it a darning needle, or a knitting needle, or a drawing-through needle?
Fill into squab and then sew up with darning needle and stout string.
Spinning wheel, loom, and darning needle were to lie idle that day.
Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
A tapestry needle or a darning needle would do for this purpose.
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