By the way, for those of you who do not know this, darning is a repair process, it involves weaving new threads into the existing sock, but it is definitely not making the sock from nothing. I fix holes, in short, nothing more. But in Vermont we tend to wear expensive woolen socks in winter, so – welp, someone has to do it or we would be a holey population! Hah!
This is a lost art, the art of darning…I love to darn socks, anyone’s!Darning egg, er, Gourd, plus darned socks, done today!
Phoebe Sparrow Wagner, formerly Pamela Spiro Wagner, is an award-winning poet, author and artist who wrote WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS (Cavankerry Press, 2009) poems about her life with schizophrenia, and co-author, with her sister, a psychiatrist, of DIVIDED MINDS: TWIN SISTERS AND THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH SCHkIZOPHRENIA, a memoir, which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and won the NAMI Outstanding Literature Award in 2006. It is still in print, and available at Amazon.Wagner second book, a first volume of poetry, is WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS, (2009) which is available at a discount now from Cavankerrypress.org. Her newest book of poetry and art, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (Green Writers Press/Sundog Poetry Center 2017) is also now available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Her work has been published in Tikkun, Midwest Poetry Review, and the New York TImes Sunday Magazine as well as the Hartford Courant and the LA Weekly, among other places. She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2.
Wagner’s art was on display in Connecticut area libraries in 2011 and 2012 and in Vermont, in Brattleboro, in 2016 and 2017. Many pieces are available for sale and charitable donation. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Wow I see how you did the heel. I forget what that type is called but that’s exactly the same ribbed heel I did when I did socks. What type of yarn did you use and what size needles?
Actually, I just darn, I know how to knit but I no longer do that. Darning is really just a weaving process and often is quite visible as people use different colored yarns, but in this case I had some sock wool (80% wool) that matched almost perfectly so you cannot quite see the darning as obviously as you might…
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Wow I see how you did the heel. I forget what that type is called but that’s exactly the same ribbed heel I did when I did socks. What type of yarn did you use and what size needles?
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Actually, I just darn, I know how to knit but I no longer do that. Darning is really just a weaving process and often is quite visible as people use different colored yarns, but in this case I had some sock wool (80% wool) that matched almost perfectly so you cannot quite see the darning as obviously as you might…
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