Ha - I've just amused myself with my silly post title. Sorry. My Mum has taught me how to darn. My alpine jumper (again... it's that time of year) has some quite extreme moth holes in it which I'd been meaning to darn for a while but didn't know how. My Mum's reaction to said holes was to inform me that she'd bought the jumper whilst visiting the Hebridies during the early 1970s thus making it almost 40 years old and therefore expected to have holes. Anyway with the use of a darning mushroom and some almost identical thread I successfully mended the six holes in my jumper and I'm now ready to combat any more damage the evil moths that live in my house might make!
Over the last year a group of pesky moths have wreaked havoc on my clothes, destroying the skirt of my 1950s suit (the jacket is currently in the freezer to protect it from any more damage - if they ruined that I think I would proabably cry), an angora cardigan that had belonged to my great aunt and chewing holes in many other jumpers and cardigans. I don't like the idea of coating clothes in lots of scary chemicals and although I did try some kind of toxic mothball they didn't work anyway. I have cedar blocks folded into all my jumpers and cardigans, have made little bags of herbs and recently put conkers amongst all my wooll items after hearing that they act as some kind of a deterrent. I don't have anything against moths as a creature in general and I know that they need to eat but I wish they wouldn't use my clothes!
(darning in progress, ta-da!, some brussel sprout trees in the snow)
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