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25th January 2014, 11:10 AM #1
Darn it
A local lady asked me to make her a
"Darning mushroom".
I had no idea but Mr Google did.
Made from a local piece of Wild Cherry
it measures 9.5cm high by 7cm diameter.
The stem is hollowed to accept darning needles.
Comments welcomed.
AllanLife is short ... smile while you still have teeth.
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25th January 2014, 11:30 AM #2
Nice one Allan, probably showing my age but I well remember both my Mum and my GrandMother using those to darn our socks.
This is the shape I remember them using
Vintage wooden treen darning mushroom B SOLD
Yes in those days socks weren't thrown in the bin because they had a hole in them!
In fact, not only did they darn our socks, they knitted them in the first place, as they did our jumpers.
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Yes, quick to make and they sell well. I hollow the back, more like a mushroom cap, to keep the weight down. Phil
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I,m back just for the week end then back to the van. I thought darning socks and jumpers disappeared when you and I were kids. She must have plenty of old woolen socks etc around.
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25th January 2014, 07:27 PM #6
Nice work
regards
Nick
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25th January 2014, 07:41 PM #7Skwair2rownd
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Nice one Allan!!!
I remember both mum and her mother using those. Mum also used to do invisible mending.
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25th January 2014, 08:16 PM #8
Many thanks for your comments.
Yes Chucky, she picked up the item today and told me her husband
wears steel capped boots and his socks always need darning.
... and, as one sock said to the other, "Well I'll be darned".
Sorry about that, just had to put that in.
AllanLife is short ... smile while you still have teeth.
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25th January 2014, 09:00 PM #9
We must have been really poor, mum used a light bulb. I suppose one of the new fluorescent "bulbs" could be a problem.
JimSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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26th January 2014, 11:27 AM #12
For some reason I cannot remember my Mum ever using
one of these mushroom darners.
Ahhh, yes, now it comes back to me .... we were so poor
we didn't have socks.
AllanLife is short ... smile while you still have teeth.
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26th January 2014, 01:23 PM #13
Mum's daughters boys all had to know how to darn socks as they were handed down the line each would have to do their own repairs Mum was to busy to darn socks looking after food, veg garden, baby, dad........This was mother story not mine.
LOML is glad to say all 3 of our kids know how to use one. No I have never made her or them one. LOML does have her mothers one
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26th January 2014, 10:44 PM #14Novice
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Grw
Well done Alan, the timber is a nice color,
Gordon
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27th January 2014, 06:58 AM #15
These are still available in UK habadashery shops but I've never seen one with a hollow handle for the needles.
I like it.Dragonfly
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