2torial #0632:
Learn2 Darn a Sock (continued)

Finish it up

Once the whole area of your sock has been completely filled up with vertical and horizontal stitches, you're ready to finish your darning.

• Using a running stitch, pass your needle and thread in and out of the sock fabric just outside the darned area. These four or five stitches will secure the darning stitches, i.e. keep them from slipping out. You sew these extra stitches instead of tying a knot, which would not feel good to step on.

   

• Cut off the remaining thread, and take pride your newly mended sock: the area that was worn and torn is now much stronger than it was originally, before it ever needed mending. How nice!

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