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I went hiking a couple times with, among others, a dude who's been in climbing and mountaineering since the eighties at least, and was like sixty at the time. T
by aasasd 4y ago
I went hiking a couple times with, among others, a dude who's been in climbing and mountaineering since the eighties at least, and was like sixty at the time. This is in Russia, so in the eighties you just couldn't buy anything in the shops, and only something via the black market. At a train platform, we met another guy like that, and it was battle story time: that guy showed us a backpack hand-made from tarpaulin, which is of course a bit of the opposite of light hiking. Our guy related the story of his climbing rope, to obtain which you had to go through a hole in the fence of a factory, then walk on the roof to a certain door, knock and say ‘I'm here to see Mikhail, about this thing and that other thing’.
Meanwhile here I am trying to gather courage to hand-fix holes in the accumulated twenty pairs of socks, and then graduate to the more involved things. Bit of a nuisance that every Youtube video on how to fix this kind of holes just says that darning is the answer. Come on, I know how darning is gonna turn out with my skills—surely there's a crappier but simpler alternative.
- exolymph 4y agoDarning is actually very easy, give it a go on your least favorite pair! You could also patch socks but I don't think they'd be comfortable afterward.
- 99_00 4y ago>I know how darning is gonna turn out with my skills It's going to suck super bad, and you are going to be super slow. And after a couple of socks it will be easy. The learning curve is a speed bump. Easy to get over when you move forward.
- robocat 4y agoExtreme darning: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHbnCrIvw1o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHbnCrIvw1o (Invisible mending of warp/weft fabrics).
- jonah 4y agoI'm glad someone posted this. It's really amazing.
- dvzk 4y agoI ended up hand sewing several patches onto my synthetic $100 MTB shorts just last week. No guides, and the process was excruciatingly long, but it turned out fine. Give it a shot! I gained a newfound respect for sewing.
- aasasd 4y agoI think patching would be rather easy, for me. Slap two fabrics together, and then keep backstitching until satisfied. At least, I repaired some seams and didn't have any trouble. The problem is, putting a patch onto every hole is questionable aesthetically, practically and economically. But alas, even with straight-line rips, Youtube's answer outside of patches seems to be darning—and I understand the logic behind that solution, but I don't accept it as the final one. There's also one guy (at least) who stitches such rips in one pass without darning and with minimal bunching-up, but he somehow seems to put the thread inside the fabric, which so far is like magic to me.