It is still slow and steady here at Needle and Spindle, so sock darning is about the right pace.

After encountering this wonderful darning technique on Local and Bespoke, I found that a pair of my favourite socks were needing urgent repair.

I found the same yarn in my mending yarn jar because although visible mending is cool, I like how smug I feel that I saved the exact yarn and found it again when I needed it!

You pick up knitted loops from a sound area under the worn area and then knit a patch back and forth on sock needles, knitting an original sock stitch together with a patch stitch at each end to anchor it to the sock. The last row is grafted to the sock stitches.

Not a large act in the world, but nevertheless the life of a useful thing that took time and resources to bring into the world is kept useful.