darning

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Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The feet were shoeless, with socks in need of darning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

"Perhaps I will have to forgo my darning circle!" a concerned lady about town sighs.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022

Near the start, we hear that “Someone is stitching up a hem, darning / a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, / repairing the things in need of repair.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2021

She had made it herself, on the head of a darning needle which had a broken eye, so it couldn’t be used as a needle any more.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder