I have noticed several different types of antique darning eggs on ebay recently. I think they are beautiful in their simplicity. Can some girls who are more expert seamstresses tell me what they are and how they are used? I am just always curious.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
If you haven't time to carve an egg for darning socks, you can always use an old light bulb. In some ways I like a light bulb better because the stem serves as a handle.
There are also small darning eggs made for little ones to mend their own socks. I have a cute one which I think is around 85 years old. It is painted to look like a "flapper girls" head complete with the marcelled hairdo. Tiny darners were also made, many in sterling or ivory. They were used to mend fingertips on gloves.
Lucinda
When we were young, there were moments of such perfectly crystallized happiness that we stood stock still and silently promised ourselves that we would remember them always. And we did. --Holly J. Burkhalter , "Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book"
When I wanted to learn to sew, my G'ma said I had to learn to darn socks and sew by hand first. So I did. I have three eggs of differnt sizes and shapes. G'ma is gone, but I darn not throw a mendable sock away, I would hear the loud clucking of her tongue in my head till I darned the sock.
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim
Darning Eggs
Posted - Nov 12 2005 : 11:24:29 AM
