I was not always this way. I used to plain, white, cotton wear socks until there was little more than a few threads. My toes stuck out at the top while my heals stuck out too. It honestly just didn't bother me.
Then I met J. It was summer so socks were not a concern. As winter took over, my feet were always cold, with or without holes in my socks. J just looked at me and shook his head. He told me to wear wool socks. Wool socks? I had never seen them at Wal-Mart or Target. Where would I find said socks? He seemed baffled that I had never owned wool socks. I was shocked by his bafflement. Seriously, where are these wool socks? In eighteen years, I had neither owned a pair nor known where to purchase them.
At the time J's mother, S, owned a store that sold high-end outdoor clothing. For Christmas, I got wool socks. (And long underwear that were polyester which I found out is very important in choosing "longies" as I call them now.) I was hooked! Now all my generic cotton socks seemed like little more than anemic impersonations of socks.
Fast forward a few years, and all those wool socks have holes in them just like my cotton socks. J had always brought them to S who some how fixed them. It was time to learn, and it proved to be easier than I thought.
1. Start with a sock with a hole in it.
2. Get a darning mushroom. If you are like most people living in 2016, you don't have one. That's ok; you can use many things. I use a mason jar. You just need something cylindrical that won't lose its shape when you apply pressure. You will also need yarn and a darning (tapestry) needle.
3. Insert the mushroom (or whatever you chose) into the sock turned inside out.
4. Thread the needle and start to weave it into the sock. You will want to start next to the hole, not in the middle of it.
5. For the next step, I used a different color for visual ease. Do they same thing in the opposite direction, weaving the yarn into the yarn already there.
6. When I am done with that, I like to stitch a circle around your work area. Once I get back to the starting spot, I weave in and out of the stitches.
7. Turn the sock the correct way and enjoy!
This looks like something I could do. Now I don't have to be afraid of spending outrageous sums of money on wool socks.
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