{"id":14075,"date":"2020-12-26T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:35:04","slug":"daily_2173_-_reinforcing_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/daily_2173_-_reinforcing_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2173 &#8211; reinforcing socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2173_darning_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWorking from home, I wear woollen socks a lot more. Working in the office I&#8217;d wear indoor shoes instead but socks are so much comfier. Which leads to a lot more darning.<\/p>\n<p>A nice thing about hand-knitted socks is that I can fix a hole before it actually becomes a hole. The yarn wears thin but still retains the knitted structure, and I can use duplicate stitch to reinforce it. On this sock my reinforcement even covers up an earlier, less-than-expert darning.<\/p>\n<p>Store-bought socks have their benefits but they are usually made of such thin yarn that duplicate stitching them would take a magnifying glass and one of those surgery robots that repeat your hand movements in miniature.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, assumes that I notice the soon-to-be hole in time, and don&#8217;t procrastinate about fixing it until it does actually become a hole.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2173_darning_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working from home, I wear woollen socks a lot more. Working in the office I&#8217;d wear indoor shoes instead but socks are so much comfier. Which leads to a lot more darning. A nice thing about hand-knitted socks is that I can fix a hole before it actually becomes a hole. The yarn wears thin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,787,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-mending","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14077,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions\/14077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}