#speedweave

[lucybellwood]

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

[solarpunkcitizen]

[pulptrash]

Been trying new techniques with the speed weave

[gapingdoubt]

My darns and mends, post a few washes.

The patches do hold, but sometimes I think I should have extended further beyond the hole because the fabric was too worn.

The heavy weight yarn, I think, is guilty of assisting one hole in reforming

[wells-creative]

Today we are darning socks. I’m going to update this post with progress pics once I take them. This sock had a pretty large hole in the heel from wear and a puppy decided it was a chew toy as well. So I’m going to fix it. I’m not trying to buy socks right now because I’m poor 😂

Im using a handy dandy Speedweve loom to patch this hole. I absolutely love using this little guy to mend holes. I’ll link to it below for anyone that wants one.

I do have to mention that the rubber bands that came with the one I bought were trash. So get your own rubber bands. But the loom itself works really well.

I love using this little thing, specially the satisfaction of zipping all the hooks from one side to the other after I complete a row. It definitly takes a little getting used to but its soooo fun once you get a rythm.

Find it here: https://amzn.to/3Pzgsq8

Also, this is an Amazon affiliate link and even if you don't want to buy one please click my link because the clicks boost my morale if nothing else. Thanks in advance and I love all you clickers!

[cottonkhaleesi]

Sometimes you just gotta speedweave those holes your thighs made outta existence

[gapingdoubt]

A batch of sock mending and darning and what not. 4 thread is 4 threads of machine polyester thread -I think the spools I have are for a serger. 2 thread is just a doubled over thread.

I realized I haven't posted any of these in a while because it now seems so easy to me, But then I remembered that looking at pictures of easier projects like this helped inspire me to get started on mending.

Most of these were done with a speedweave. I consider it an essential tool for making mending socks easy and fast, at least if you let them get to the point that they have holes in them like I do. One thing to note is that it is really important to extend the speed weave patch into knit beyond the hole, Like pretty far beyond the hole, because otherwise the knit of the sock will just fall apart right next to your darned patch. You can see the extension into the knit of the thread in white over the blue yarn in some of these pictures.

The blue and white socks are actually a patch before damage was fully done. It looked like the heel and toe were beginning to separate, I think they might have been sewn into the rest of the sock after it was made somehow. So I used a black thread blanket stitch to reinforce holding that join together. I tried to pick up every row of stitches with this blanket stitch.

[gapingdoubt]

Okay I have decided to up my stakes here on mending my socks.

This pair of over the knee socks are originally intended and were worn as soccer/ futbol socks. There is a huge hole on the bottom of the heel and one of the socks, which I have previously tried to patch using a different fabric.

I used machine thread, black, At 4 strands thick, to make this patch. It took probably 2-3 hours.

I did not fully remove my previous patch, only cutting out the fabric left behind by that patch.

Interestingly, even though the warp threads do not look like I will fully cover the whole, because I can do the weft threads so tightly, the hole is wholey covered. See what I did there? :)

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