{"id":826,"date":"2010-05-09T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-06-05T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T02:44:54","slug":"oh-darn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/oh-darn\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Darn"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been darning lately.<\/p>\n

It’s not very glamorous, but it’s pretty gratifying.<\/p>\n

Whenever I make socks for someone, I tell them that the socks come with a lifetime Darning Guarantee. (This means you, Penny.) So far no one’s believed me. Not until a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

I was over at Mom’s and she handed me three pairs of socks.<\/p>\n

I practically skipped home. I actually really like darning. It gives me a chance to take a look at the sock, where it’s wearing, why it’s wearing down there. It’s just as meditative as knitting, and I have a really funky darning egg.<\/p>\n

It’s a bed post knob. Bigger than an egg, less breakable than a lightbulb.<\/p>\n

I love it.<\/p>\n

And here’s a look at a little bit of the darn for you. I used a very funky, VERY solid yarn to darn with. Hoping it wont wear down as quickly. I think the original was Cherry Tree Hill–and it didn’t wear out quickly, now that I think about it. I knit these in ’06.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been darning lately. It’s not very glamorous, but it’s pretty gratifying. Whenever I make socks for someone, I tell them that the socks come with a lifetime Darning Guarantee. (This means you, Penny.) So far no one’s believed me. Not until a few weeks ago. I was over at Mom’s and she handed me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,3,13],"tags":[49,36,41,58,509],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-family","category-knitting","category-sock-knitting","tag-crafty","tag-fibery-goodness","tag-knit","tag-pictures","tag-sock-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}