Jan 5th, 2025

Author: donich_admin

Sewing tables

We gave these to a friend from the village who had helped Chloe a lot and who is a fantastic craftswoman.

For some reason there are three separate sewing tables in the house – one Victorian walnut which J took himself, and two others which are 1960s/70s but are stuffed with old things.

There are button hooks, rug hooks, a huge collection of buttons and beads, embroidery threads in a variety of colours. There was also darning wool and a “mushroom”. Does anyone darn any more? I certainly don’t although I do know how and have used the technique, not for socks but to repair knitware.

My Dad used to darn his own socks and occasionally did mine. I did not like this because the sock was always really uncomfortable afterwards.