Darning Socks

Dear users, dear authors,
how do you deal with holes in your socks?

Tja, bei meinem Mann sind die Löcher meist so groß und die Socken so schnell sehr abgetragen, dass ich mir gar nicht die Mühe mache, noch zu stopfen. Macht ja auch mehr Spaß, neue Socken zu stricken.

Seltsamerweise musste ich noch kein Paar meiner eigenen Socken stopfen. Die sind dann halt irgendwann mal nicht mehr ganz so weich und schön. Dann wandern diese z.B. als "Notfall-Socken" ins Auto oder so.. Und ich freue mich auf NEUE :-))))

Oh gott Socken stopfen mit dem Stopfpilz von meiner Mutter, das hab ich gehasst. Bei mir wurde das nie gleichmäßig,  wie bei meiner Oma. Heute kann man es sich leisten, sie auch mal zu entsorgen und neue zu kaufen

We learned to darn socks in school using stockings that we’d painstakingly knitted ourselves and then had to cut open! These days, I only darn socks very, very rarely—it doesn’t really work with store-bought ones anyway!

I learned how to darn in school. But we only practiced on pieces of cardboard covered with wool. I even got an “A” for it. Man, was I proud!
When I started knitting socks, my daughter was the first to get them. Her feet were always freezing when she went to the wholesale market to buy flowers. So the socks were in high demand because they were nice and warm.
I darned that very first pair several times. Eventually, of course, it just wasn’t possible anymore. So I simply cut off the foot section. I’ll never forget the horrified look on my daughter’s face—she was 20 at the time. With tears in her eyes, all she could
say was, “My socks…” It didn’t comfort her at all that I’d knitted a new foot section onto them.

She never developed such a “close bond” with any of the other socks I made. Those first socks were probably something truly special to her.

I still mend most of the knitted socks I make today. With store-bought ones, it’s usually not worth the effort.

I know how to do it, but I actually never do it. I’d rather knit a new pair :-)