#darning loom

[lucybellwood]

Cannot stress enough how much “imperfect but now with no holes” is better than “full of holes” for my brain.

[kneading-stitches]

Learning how to use my darning loom!

[goingtiny]

Learning how to work with a darning loom. I understand now how I may want to own a smaller loom too, but overall, easy to comprehend, easy to operate. A stash of variegated embroidery floss picked up from mom’s studio clean out makes for effortless fun colors.

This is an older Abercrombie & Fitch all-cotton sweater I got at a yard sale for $2, so the cotton embroidery floss patch feels the same inside when I wear the sweater over bare skin.

[calendae-creations]

Some of the things I've been working on over the past couple days. The spinning continues to go slowly, since I'm working with an unwashed fleece and have to spin it on the porch. I can't work during the middle of the day most days because it's been way too hot. I can hardly wait until I can ply the first two bobbins though! I wanna know how many yards I've spun, and what washing the dirt out will do to the texture and appearance! I wanna knit it up into a fancy lace shawl!

The other pics are from me working my way through my mending bin. I used my darning loom to patch the knee on a pair of jeans. I like using contrasting colours for the warp and weft with the darning loom, because it creates a visual effect similar to shot silk.

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[azuremaenad]

I found my darning looms, which is great because my partner's PJ pants desperately need me to patch some holes in the butt.

Now I just need to chase them down to get those pants.

[jelalee]

Old pajama pants no longer have a hole right there. (And they're a little more colorful too :D )

Yay for darning looms!

[hanguangbunny]

for anyone interested in mending, i recommend the speedweve (or other darning loom brand) for patching up holes in clothes!!

it's easy to use and fun, you can make cool patterns with it :D and extending the lifespan of your clothes is good for saving money and the environment too

it looks like this and you can get different sizes (usually 12 pin, 14 pin or 28 pin) and i found 12 is perfect for darning socks. it's about $10 on amazon, but if you're like me and try to avoid using amazon there are other sites too, like this one (where i got the image from), but they can be a bit more expensive... it's worth looking around to get one for a good price

i've only done socks so far but here are some pics of what i've done (the patch in the first pic's not great but it was one of my first attempts!!):

you can find tutorials like this on youtube and patterns on blogs like this

[mybigfatspoonielife]

@wastelesscrafts you'll like this!

I had been planning on buying a darning loom (speedweave) for MONTHS now, and finally did earlier this month. Of course I had to practice with it on this sarong I keep in the living room to use kinda like a sheet when I'm just chilling on the couch. It's got several holes from when it got caught in the recliner mechanism and I yanked it out without caution....

At some point I'll use this gadget to repair some holes in my brother's Carhartt pants, but I needed to practice on something else first.

One of many holes; one of the largest.

After trimming the threads (left) and doing a blanket stitch along the edges (right) to discourage further raveling.

Prepared the weft. Should not have done that stitching at the bottom. Live and learn, right?

Finished weaving, still needed to take it off the loom and tidy everything up (which took FOREVER).

Note: I'd removed the metal loom part, but kept the wooden darning disk attached.

Complete! Right side ⬅️, wrong side ➡️.

(Can we appreciate, for a moment, what a good match the thread was? It's got just a tiny bit more blue than the sarong does.)

So I learned a lot doing this, and I think I know how to prevent some of the issues I'd had.

Maybe I'll make a post showing how to use the loom. Won't make promises though.