Darning, (my) a starting point

I remember how difficult it was for me to find more information on the topic „darning“ once I decided to check it out. A lot has happened since then and in addition to the resources I found, a lot of thoughts have gathered on that topic – in the narrower and broader sense. I would like to use the blog as an opportunity and possibility to reveal these thoughts 🙂

Once, when I told someone about darning being one of my interests, he replied:

„You can fix something so there’s no bump and you can’t feel it?!“

Now that was very loosely quoted but it represents the beauty of darning in my opinion: I’m repairing a hole (hole = fabric is missing) but instead of gathering up the remaining fabric close to the hole and sewing it, new fabric is created. Whuaaaaat?!?! 😀

One person who shows you very nicely how this works is Sarah from the YouTube channel (and Instagram channel of the same name) Ein Koffer voll Wolle. I especially like her videos on the darning technique duplicate stitch. Though, I started with weave darning (that’s the literal translation of the german term, not sure if this is the english term as well) at that time and also think that this technique is more universal - that’s why I link you to her video on this darning technique right here. Just watch it (it’s 13 min) and dive in the way how a hole disappears „just like that“. Okay, it’s not just like that but it’s simple nonetheless. And it’s so fascinating!

In general, I’m more interested in showing the network/community on the topic of darning on the blog and less/not at all am I interested in creating tutorials by myself. As I mentioned, I have found a few resources in the meantime that I are highly recommendable. On the one hand, it will be about making darning and darning people (more) visible – maybe I will create a small link list eventually. On the other hand I hope that by dealing with this topic for the blog and preparing the posts, I will also expand the network for myself and immerse myself more. In between, there will be some thoughts on a meta-level (time?) and I will also get over to related topics (fixing in general).

There will be a bit more background blah blah from me in a later post. I wanted to do a short entry today. Did I succeed doing that? 😛

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• Tag: My darning life, netzwerken, reparieren, stopfen, Stopfen-Ressource, webstopfen