A Simple Way to Cover a Hole in a Sock

I’m not quite sure how this old post ended up on my radar, but this guide to sewing a patch to cover a hole in a knit sock is timeless.

The tutorial, from Jackie E-S, shows how to cover up a hole by picking up stitches below the hole, stitching a patch that is attached to the sock as you knit, then grafting the patch onto the stitches of the sock below the patch.

It’s a really great idea and an easier way to do it than more traditional darning where you’re trying to re-create the lost stitches. It of course doesn’t look seamless — you might not have matching yarn by the time you need to fix a hole, anyway — but the odds are that a place that needs mending won’t show when you’re wearing shoes, anyway, and visible mending is kind of cool, too.

I haven’t been knitting socks long enough to have needed to fix holes in any of them, but I do have a pair that I think might need some reinforcement soon.

How about you? Have you ever mended a hole in a sock? How did you do it?

[Photo via Jackie E-S.]

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One great thing to knit when the weather is warm (or honestly any other time) is dishcloths and washcloths. They are fun and easy projects and a great way to play with new skills. Pretty washcloths make cleaning a tiny bit more fun, and they’re great to have on hand as a quick addition to a store-bought gift.

The Daisy Delight Dishcloth from Yarnspirations is a fun one for using leftover bits of green in your cotton yarn stash. What looks like the bottom in the picture is actually the left side as you knit it, and each little color section is worked with its own ball of yarn, intarsia style.

That’s a little fiddly for a washcloth, but the effect is cute, and it’s a simple way to learn the basics of intarsia knitting (as well as reading a chart) if you don’t already have those skills.

One the knitting is done, you add the flowers with a bit of lazy daisy embroidery, which is really easy to do even if you’re not that into embroidery. You could also potentially add flowers in duplicate stitch if you’d rather.

This may be the most work you’ve put into a dishcloth, but isn’t it adorable? It would be fun to use as a hand towel through the spring and summer, and if you already have some leftover green yarn from other projects it should be pretty easy to do.

You could also take this same concept and make it different colors. All dark green stems with stars on top might be reminiscent of Christmas trees, or brown with daisy stitch on top in different colors could be trees in the fall.

However you stitch it, this looks like a fun little project for knitters who are comfortable with intarsia and reading charts or who are ready to try those skills.

You can grab the free pattern from Yarnspirations.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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