darning

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Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The seamstresses in Obama’s lineage worked for white families, making and fixing and darning their clothes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2022

"Sometimes they would invite them in and to others they would say 'no, sorry we're busy darning our socks today'."

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2022

Near the start, we hear that “Someone is stitching up a hem, darning / a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, / repairing the things in need of repair.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2021

She was darning socks and she was smiling.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck