Another project which will never be done. But I can document my mending skills, and note yarn used (up).

2020/12/16 -- First attempt was the pair of footie socks made from the turquoise and bronze Coopworth handspun. Had leftovers from the bronze and made darns with that.

Making a linen stitch patch for the ripped knee of my jeans. Using rest of leftover bronze Coopworth handspun, and the leftover gold MadTosh Unicorn Tails.

2020/12/22 -- Finished the patch with the leftover light gold handspun (fiber from the Wooly Witch). Patch is just about the width of the jeans leg at the knee. 3 1/4” x 9”. Will hand stitch patch to the jeans.

I see it is screwy in showing yarn quantities for the handspun. Ignore the # skeins, just look at yards and ounces.

2020/12/26 -- Saw today that the bronze handspun footie sock had developed another small hole at the toe bottom. Grabbed some spare fingering weight yarn and darned it. Went smoothly.

2021/1/8 -- Another pair of jeans had developed holes at the hems. (I’m tall, and wear Tall sized jeans, and sometimes they’re too long, as when not wearing heels, and hems get stepped on.) Made a couple of small patches and applied them. Used Linen Stitch, and two shades of leftover blue fingering-weight yarn.

2021/2/7 -- When I married, I moved into the house where my husband grew up, which he inherited from his parents. My mother-in-law was an accomplished knitter. Among other things, we found a couple of pairs of hand-knit wool socks that exhibited a number of holes.. They were in the sewing area, probably there be mended. I insisted on keeping them. Now, with better knowledge of darning, I tried them on and one pair fit me. So I have mended that. This pair is made in a beige/natural wool at a good, tight gauge of around 9 1/2 sts/inch.

2021/3/1 -- My late cat insisted on clawing a spot on the seat of my office chair, which of course finally tore through. Using some old scrap yarn to knit a Linen Stitch patch for that spot. Need 3 1/2” by 5”.

2021/3/4 -- Sigh Have reached the point of darning the darns. It is true that those first darns made on the Coopworth handspun footie socks were not well made.

2021/3/6 -- Finished the patch for the seat of my office chair, and got it sewn on.

2021/9/19 -- Fixed husband’s Kitchen Shirt #2. Many places along the bottom cast-on edge have worn away, and run upwards. Well, it is a utility garment, being worn in the kitchen for cooking and such throughout the cool weather. And the thing is 14 years old.

2022/7/2 -- More splits in the seat fabric on my office chair. Will make a 4” x 15” patch in Linen Stitch, using Addi Turbo 3.0mm needles, the Rauma Finullgarn in medium blue.

2022/8/27 -- Finished the linen stitch patch for the office chair seat. Used the full ball of Rauma Finullgarn.

2022/8/29 -- Linen stitch patch stitched onto the office chair seat.

2023/3/2 -- A pair of hand-knit socks needed mending. One had developed an actual hole, and got a darn. The other was wearing thin and got Swiss darning reinforcement.