{"id":187,"date":"2012-07-23T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-07-13T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:06:22","slug":"repairing-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/07\/repairing-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was gathering up all my plain socks when I discovered big giant gaping holes in some of them. Oh no!<\/p>\n

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It was time to fix some socks. Here’s a way to repair large holes in knit fabric.<\/p>\n

Step 1: Gather your materials. You’ll need your sad sock, extra yarn (the one pictured is not the original yarn but pretty close in color), a darning needle, and 2 dpns (preferably in the size you used to knit the sock).<\/p>\n

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Step 2: Evaluate the hole. You’ll be re-knitting a patch to cover the hole as well as sewing a few stitches to either side, so you’ll need to cut a length of yarn long enough for this.<\/p>\n

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Step 3: Find the first row of stitches at the bottom of the hole that is complete and unbroken. Using a dpn, pick up the right leg of every stitch along this row. This is where you’ll begin adding fabric back to close up the hole.<\/p>\n

Step 4: Leaving a tail, use the new yarn to knit across the dpn.<\/p>\n

Step 5: Thread your needle and duplicate stitch a few sts into the old fabric along the same row you’ve re-created. Then move up to the next row and duplicate stitch back towards the edge of the hole.<\/p>\n

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Step 6: Turn and purl across the dpn.<\/p>\n

Step 7: As in Step 5, Duplicate stitch a few sts beyond, and then back towards the hole.<\/p>\n

Repeat steps 4-7 until you reach the top of the hole (without leaving a tail each time). Try not to entangle the cat in this process.<\/p>\n

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Pick up the right leg of every stitch in an unbroken line across the top of the hole with a dpn, just like you did for the bottom.<\/p>\n

Graft the live stitches you’ve just knit to the live stitches from the top of the hole.<\/p>\n

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Weave in ends and enjoy your rejuvenated sock.<\/p>\n

And here’s what it looks like on the inside. Ta-da!<\/p>\n

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I was gathering up all my plain socks when I discovered big giant gaping holes in some of them. Oh no! It was time to fix some socks. Here’s a way to repair large holes in knit fabric. Step 1: Gather your materials. You’ll need your sad sock, extra yarn (the one pictured is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}