How To Use Darning In A Sentence
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Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
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One kind of darning is rather popular at the present moment, and examples of it may be familiar; it is a large, bold kind of work, often carried out with a coarse twisted silk.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Aiming for the best possible results, I took an ultra-casual approach, snatching up ingredients at random while drinking a glass of wine, reading a newspaper and darning a hole in my daughter's socks.
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The only problem was that this yarn was a bit thin for guage and hence the bunny was a bit "holey" which I remided by darning the holiest bits.
Archive 2006-03-19
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Clothing was rationed in just the same way as food and Mother was always altering my clothes, patching, turning collars and darning the darns on my socks.
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The fancy fillings such as darning, French knots, etc., are demonstrated and described in the following pages, and the colour plates endeavour to give the idea of the correct colourings.
Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor
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The same method of darning was used upon what was then called, "bobbinet footing," narrow lengths of bobbinet lace which were extensively used as ruffles for caps and trimming and garniture of capes and various articles of personal wear.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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With the lamps lit and the curtains drawn, this cavernous parlor looks almost cozy, especially with Aunt Amelia darning socks.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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We microwave our dinners, movies come out on DVD mere weeks after they're released, and instead of darning a sock with a hole in it, folks simply buy a new pair.
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They are made from pieces of muslin, constructed like a rag doll stuffed with scraps, with the outer surface covered with parallel darning stitches.
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Mr Buck, a stiff, old-fashioned linen-draper, is waiting for notice in the adjoining pew; what I chiefly remember about him is, that in his best parlour there hung a large frame, containing what I never saw anywhere else, varieties in "darning," all sorts of fabrics being admirably imitated,
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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The girls, who were most of them busy with odd jobs such as darning, making out lists, rewriting work, writing letters home and so on, looked up as June strode into the room.
In the Fifth at Malory Towers
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My mother used to call dragonflies “darning needles”…Darning needles would fly up and sew up the mouths of little children who talked too much.
Logic 101: Gravity, radio, and library books « knitnut.net
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She's in her usual place at the other end of the table darning socks.
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Certain sewing days in school, called darning days, are sacred to the renovation of worn-out garments which the girls bring from home.
The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915)
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In making a cloth with plain weave, that is, with every thread interlacing with every other, as in darning, only two harnesses are required, but the modern loom may have up to about twenty-four harnesses so that an infinite variety of weaves may be obtained.
Textiles and Clothing
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However, Gates will not be darning his own socks just yet; his personal wealth fell from £53 to £37.5 billion, according to the Sunday Times.
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Ou, aye, my dear," said Elspeth, who was deeply engaged in darning a very large hole in one of my great-grandfather's socks.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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Later as a young adult she graduated to darning socks and clothing patching as an art form with patterns woven into the darns.
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In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
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The tone of his voice, somehow both troubled and amused, brought Francesca's head up from her darning and she stared at him, her cheeks colouring. ‘I was concentrating on my work, that's all.’
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At first I gave it some rudimentary household chores, such as changing gramophone needles and darning stockings.
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The former is called darning, the latter, patching.
Encyclopedia of Needlework
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Allied to these canvas stitches and having their origin in them, are the numerous forms of groundings, which are now worked on coarse linens, or in fact on any fabric; and have sometimes, although incorrectly, been called darning stitches, probably from their resemblance to the patterns which are found on samplers, for darning stockings, old table linen, &c. &c.
Handbook of Embroidery
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Keep a bag handy. Slip a pencil, paper, articles or mail to read, clothing darning needle and thread.
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Darning with flosses upon both white and black bobbinet, or silk net, was a very common form of the art, and veils of white with seed or all-over designs darned in white silk floss, may be called the "personal needlework" of the period, and some of the shawls were superb stretches of design and stitching.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table.
A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
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Another way of disposing of the undrawn threads is to cover them with a kind of darning stitch, as illustrated in fig. 117.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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It would be easier to imagine Maria Callas darning socks.
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She was sitting in the overstuffed leather armchair, concentrating on her darning, but painfully aware of the man who was sitting in a similar chair no more than three feet away from her.
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Many of the gypsies ignored her, sitting outside their tents, preparing a meal or darning a sock or mending a hem.
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Once I nearly picked a night-adder up, mistaking it for a skein of darning wool.
ON CATS
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Children are able to take on the roles of evacuees, undertaking a variety of war-time tasks such as darning socks or making rag rugs.
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Ye maun daut her a wee, she's unco tired! 'she said, and seating herself on a stool, went on with the darning of the stocking.
Heather and Snow
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She was engaged in the homely occupation of darning socks, and what with her size, her loose untidy dress – serge of the colour of boiled spinach, with dibs and dabs of embroidery here and there – and a green scarf that belonged to the dress, and a rust-coloured one she had put on in a fit of absentmindedness, and her mending-basket, and a scatteration of socks, she pretty well filled the old-fashioned sofa.
The Key
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In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
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Every so often Dad would turn up with a bag of laundry and holes in his socks, and I'd be sent to Jeweks's for a skein of darning wool.
MR STARLIGHT
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India, who does this artistic style of darning, is famed for skill.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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By the early 19th century women dancers began to wear the new thin, heelless, satin ballet slipper, tied with ribbons around the ankle and stiffened at the toe by rows of darning.
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While Linda is in the kitchen darning stockings, he moves to the edge of the stage.
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_ -- The letters and surrounding decoration shown in this example of cut or open work are built up on a square network of warp and weft threads that were left at regular intervals throughout the space, when the unnecessary threads were withdrawn, and then covered with a kind of darning stitch.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Not only is it good for dental hygiene but it can also be used as a clothes line, cotton for darning clothes or string for tying things up.
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In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted.
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Sampler making was a home rather than a school taught industry, going down from mother to daughter along with darning and other processes of the needle, and having no relation, except that of its dexterity, to the distinct style of decorative embroidery called crewelwork, which accompanied it, or even preceded it.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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I'm selling it with a plastic darning needle so people can relace the lace however they please.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax held his flimsy contraption together.
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Ebenezer Darning, of Greene Street in Center City, was promoted to teller at the main branch of Girard Bank.
ROUGH JUSTICE
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Socks are so cheap that it would be lunacy to spend time darning them and plastic is so cheap it is almost free.
