Darned Good!

When I was with Liz and Jon over half term, Liz gave me her M&S cashmere fingerless gloves, to see if I could fix them. They are warm and soft, and she has worn them and worn them…and worn them out!

There was considerable wear round the thumb slits, the ribbing was completely missing along one glove- and there were other random small holes. They were just tubes with a small slit in the seam – so I decided to think creatively.

I turned them round, and made new thumbholes at the other end, blanket stitching round the apertures** for strength. Then I darned all the other holes – including the original thumb slits – closed.

I hope they are OK for Liz now – they fit my hands anyway. Now to fix the considerably larger hole in Jon’s jeans.

** Isn’t aperture a lovely word? I learned it when I was in a school play at the age of 9. My friend had to read a newspaper report, and then say “What’s an aperture?” and my line was “It’s a hole silly!” But I remember nothing else at all about the play – just that word.