darning

Crochet hooks, soda bottles, and darning needles were also used in attempts to end pregnancies.

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.

It was first thought to be a darning tool and found with dozens of shoes.

The seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes.

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