Bree set down her darning, but I was already on my feet.

I rather think you were, dear,' said Sybil, paying attention to her darning.

This is a fast way to darn, but it cannot match the effects of fine darning.

Wendy's favourite time for sewing and darning was after they had all gone to bed.

The new was woven in with the old, like the darning in a sock.

He sat down heavily and watched her as she picked up her darning.

Invisible darning is appropriate for extremely expensive fabrics and items of apparel.

The first type of embroidery that comes to mind is Swiss darning or duplicate stitch.

Cross stitch can be used on knitting too by following the same charts as those for Swiss darning.

Well, he finished his darning and started frying pancakes on a forbidden hot-plate.

There was the swish of a dress as Sybil came back into the room, sat down and picked up her darning.

'An amazing work,' said Sybil, not looking up from her darning.

One time the wife put Annie out in the freezing cold, without shoes, as a punishment because she had fallen asleep over some darning.

There are many varieties of fine darning.

There was no latching up or Swiss darning here, it was very sheer work.

She wiped it off with her apron and then held the breeches up with both hands to see if more darning was needed.

Invisible darning is the epitome of this attempt at restoring the fabric to its original integrity.

She picked up her darning.

"But I've done the beastly darning you told me to," said Gwen, indignantly.

Pattern darning is also used as a filling stitch in blackwork embroidery.

(Three, said Toenail, opened his eyes and returned to his darning.)

The darning dropped unnoticed from Granny's nerveless fingers.

Many of our patterns feature Swiss darning so if you have had any doubts, here is a step-by-step guide to just how easy it is.

With a small amount of Swiss darning I have managed to eradicate the hard line which always occurs where colours change.

"My darning surpassed itself in atrocity today, and Teka said it was this or going barefoot."

The wedding was held under the oak, with Father Darn- ley, an old man now, officiating in half-drunken jollity.

"It's like 'Darn, we won!' "

An' I had to give a good Ford--a DARN' good Ford!

'They Don't Give a Darn' "I'm not against the officer personally," Mr. Shute said in an interview.

He is sometimes credited as Don Hart (a play on 'Darn Hard'), Don Horner, "Dan Sir", or Johnny Wilson.

Well, he too was sitting in a special prison one Sunday, darning his socks.

"The lady who's been darning my socks told me about it.

Perhaps it was more like darning the worn heel of a sock.

"I suppose you are the only woman in London who darns her own stockings," he observed.

She sat staring down at the socks that she was darning.

Before he could answer, she asked, "Aren't you the one who sticks darning needles into people?"

Torn cheeks have been stitched together as if by darning needles.

She was the kind of woman who'd sit there and smolder while darning her grandfather's socks.

Instead, she darns socks and does dressmaking for local families to earn a bit.

"I'm sure she wouldn't mind darning even my stockings," he said.

In the end she merely bought a packet of darning needles and some red thread.

If you expect me for ever to be stitching stocks and darning stockings, then the answer is no.

He was standing with his back to the door, and she was sitting in her chair, darning a child's garment.

Aunt Gertrude planted herself in an easy chair and began darning socks.

When he came back in the evening he found her seated at the window, darning his socks.

The dean's wife finished darning the towels and went up to say good-night to her parents.

In his world everything is alive, from peas to darning needles to shirt collars.

Rivka looked up from the sock she was darning.

It is a hangover from those long gone days when it was actually used for darning socks!

Then I'll show you about darning the tablecloths.

Just like darning a sock in a hurry.

A good-looking girl, with a stocking she was darning drawn over one hand and arm, followed her mother into the shop.

Faculty members, it turned out, were happy to let her keep darning their socks but not to give her an advanced degree.

The boy's hair was wet as if it'd just been washed, and the wench appeared to be darning one of his socks.

Both women were engaged in darning linen sheets.