And Mother Mayberry rose, looked down the Road and hurried to the sidewalk with the darning bag under her arm and her thimble still on her finger.
And Mother began to hunt in her darning bag, in her lap and on the floor.
A Substitute Journalist Clifford Baxter came into the sitting-room where Patty wasdarning stockings and reading a book at the same time.
Patty threw down her darning needle and clapped her hands with delight.
Considerable charm can be added to the pattern by filling some of the spaces with a simple darning or running stitch in some bright colour.
The simple running or darning stitch should be employed in embroidering the pattern.
Darning silks in fast colours are also employed, but these should be woven double in order to obtain the best effect.
Darning in dull green and outlining with black in the same stitch makes a very attractive mat.
After the darning was completed it was found that the red used in the small circles alone was too conspicuous, although it was very dull in tone.
Moderately coarse net was selected, and the darning was done with linen floss in the various patterns seen, and which are repeated in a larger form on the following pages.
The kerchief is made of fine Brussels net and the darning is done with India floss.
As represented the scarf is made of white net and darned with white linen floss; but the Oriental effect may be carried out more perfectly if the darning is done with colored flosses with an intermingling of silver or gilt thread.
This stitch is worked by darning over and under two threads forming a triangle.
Wash-silk floss, India floss which is of linen but looks like silk, and ordinary darning flosses are all used for this work.
The center portions of the flowers and foliage are cut out after the solid darning is made, and the spaces are then filled in with a fancy mesh done with fine cotton in point de Bruxelles stitch.
A touch of color may be given the work by using a little tinted or colored floss with the white, though the latter is most generally selected for darning net.
The hem is fastened down by three rows of darning stitches, the outer row being deep garnet, the middle row bright old-rose and the inner row deep orange.
The sham was hemmed after the darning was finished, and a frill of darned-net edging was then added.
From these laces originated the industry of darning net by machinery and by hand, and in all grades from fine silk-blonde and Brussels net to the coarsest wash net, such as is used for curtains and draperies.
Wendy's favourite time for sewing anddarning was after they had all gone to bed.
Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.
At home Salvina was always at work, darning and mending; never was there a defter needle.
Salvina herself, with her morbid conscientiousness and desire to excel, underwent nightmares from the vexatiousness of learning how to cut holes so that they could not possibly be darned, and then darning them.
The amiable boarders at Hoboes' Home didn't at all mind Mother's darningtheir socks.
She may discharge me to-morrow," she deliberated, as she cut off a length of black darning cotton, and bent over to thread her needle.
Some hours later, when the children were asleep, and Gabriella sat darning Archibald's stockings beside the kerosene lamp, she described to Miss Polly the scene with Madame and Mrs. Pletheridge.
So here I am in little old New York instead of being stuck away in some God-forsaken Virginia town, where there isn't even a theatre, darning stockings for a family of children.
Twice he bethought him of telling Deborah all about it; but she looked so comfortable and composed, as she sat there darning his socks, that he thought it would be a pity to disturb and agitate her.
Marriage is the ultimate end of a woman's life, as the subsequent nursing of babies and darning of socks; with the sterner, though by no means nobler sex, it is but a new phase of existence.
October, when the weather was getting damp and misty, as he entered his comfortable breakfast parlour, where Deborah was sitting as usual before the fire darning her interminable stockings.
Busy, sewing ruffles on her husband's shirt and darning his long silk stockings, the mother sat, when suddenly she heard the voice of her son with his elder brother.
But that was when she had stuck thedarning needle into her thumb.
I am sure I don't know what you are talking about,' said Wilmet, betaking herself to herdarning with great good-humour.
Turning back into the warm kitchen, she took her darningbasket and sat near the stove.
The girl was darning in the sunny kitchen when Gene came in from the shed on the shore where he and Captain Ezra had been cleaning fish and packing it away in the barrel which was kept very cold in a wet hole in the sand.
The same stem as in foxgloves but with darning introduced up the centre.
Contour in stem stitch, filled in lightly with buttonhole stitch, and darning and long-and-short stitch.
Va Groups of Fillings in which darning plays important part.
The other two spaces are filled by brick stitch, and darning with little veins of coral stitch and herring bone.
Yes; but it's fraying a little at the cuffs, and when it gives away there darning and patching won't save it.
It will take but a minute more if you will let me alone," was all the mother said as Phillida released the work, and the elaborate darning went on.
The vision of a house-mother trusting the Lord even for the darning of stockings was an example of faith that touched the hearers.
Mrs Frog, wiping away a tear with the sock she was darning in preparation for her husband's return.
His pretty wife sat beside him darning a pair of very large socks.
Opposite the table were a rocking-chair and a work-basket, and Susan noticed that someone had been darning a large brown sock.
Sew the opening with a darning needle and a stout string.
Fill into squab and then sew up with darning needle and stout string.
Sew the lid or circle which has been cut out of the top with a darningneedle and heavy string.
Sew the opening with a stout string and a darning needle.
Sew the opening with a darning needle and a stout string or fasten with toothpicks.
Sew the opening with a stout darning needle and string.
Sew the opening with darning needle and stout string.
Tie the strands of raffia together at one end, and on each of the other ends thread a fine darning needle.
While you are waiting for it to get pliable thread a tapestry or darning needle with red raffia.
With a darning needle threaded with blue cotton or silk the mattress can be tufted here and there.
Run" thin places in stockings, and it will save darning a hole.
Every kitchen needs a box containing balls of brown thread and twine, a large and small darning needle, rolls of waste paper and old linen and cotton, and a supply of common holders.
Lizzie was sure to get the darning all tangled and spoiled, and if one left her any sewing to do, one might see her next moment chasing Jamie down the lane, with the unsewed article left hanging over a raspberry bush.
Miss Gordon went back to her darning on the side porch, and worked at it feverishly, wondering if the child were really in her right mind.
Miss Gordon had been darning on the side porch, but had left her work a moment and gone out to the kitchen to request Sarah Emily to sing--provided it were necessary to sing at all--a little less boisterously.
Running, again, amounts to no more than proportioning stitches to the mesh of the stuff, and taking several of them at one passing of the needle; and darning is but rows of running side by side.
It results from the way of working that you get in darning an interrupted line characteristic of the stitch.
The darning of the sampler, Illustration 43, is very simple.
Darning and running amount practically to the same thing.
More accomplished work in darning is shown in the border by William Morris in Illustration 44, where it appears, however, much flatter than in the coloured silk.
In the Surface Darning at H (34) long threads are first carried from edge to edge of the square, there only piercing the stuff, and then darned across by other stitches, again only piercing it at the edges.
Darning has a homely sound, but it is useful for more than mending.
The flower stalk is defined by darning the first row in a darker colour; for the rest, voiding is employed, but it is not easy to void in darning.
You may qualify the colour of a stuff by lightly darning it with silk of another shade, and very subtle tints may be got by thus, as it were, veiling a coloured ground with silks of various hues.
For a background, simple darning more or less open, in stitches not too regular, is often the best solution of the difficulty.
Darning might be described as consecutive lines of running.
I'm thinking of my nice white darning cotton," said Ellen.
And these are the common things of life--dish washing, house cleaning, first aid to the injured, darning stockings and keeping accurate accounts.
The daughters are deterred by housework, sewing, picking blue-berries, darning stockings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
