{"id":1942,"date":"2006-08-19T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1942.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T21:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T20:35:36","slug":"questions-that-answer-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2006\/08\/19\/questions-that-answer-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions that Answer Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darn it, what am I going to do about this huge three-cornered tear in my purple linen trousers?<\/em><\/p>\n

(I didn’t photograph the original tear, because I didn’t have the heart.) I didn’t want to patch them, and I didn’t want to make a new pair. So I learned to darn.<\/p>\n

Darning is using spare threads from a scrap of the same fabric to recreate missing cloth. So first you work a bunch of threads in one way, then reweave the cloth by going the other way. It’s time-consuming, detailed work – I would have been faster making a whole new pair of trousers (not as smug, though!)<\/p>\n

From the front, with one “leg” of the tear done and the other half done
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\ntaken 16 August 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

From the back, same point in time.
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\ntaken 16 August 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

In theory, a darn should be invisible. In practice, this darn suffers from the amount of thread added to the texture of the cloth in the area outlining the tear. I don’t know what to do about it. Note that I melted some Wondaweb onto the loose threads at the back because I was afraid of it ravelling. It hasn’t changed the texture more than the basic darn itself did.<\/p>\n

Front of finished darn.
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\ntaken 19 August 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

Back of finished darn.
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\ntaken 19 August 2006<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darn it, what am I going to do about this huge three-cornered tear in my purple linen trousers? (I didn’t photograph the original tear, because I didn’t have the heart.) I didn’t want to patch them, and I didn’t want to make a new pair. So I learned to darn. Darning is using spare threads … Continue reading Questions that Answer Themselves<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1718],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}