THAT LADDER

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 July 1927, Page 15

THAT LADDER

Here is a cunniug method of repairing a ladder which does away with any unsightly darns, and makes it absolutely impossible to detect the line where the damage occurred. Take a medium sized crochet pin, and, pulling toe stocking over the hand, right side out, riick up the loop at the end of the ladder (in the direction of which it is running) and crochet the first bar of the ladder through the loop, then the next, and continue to the. end. It really is simple chain stitch, but you use the bars of the ladder instead of silk. Great care must be taken not to split the silk or miss a bar. "When the length of the ladder has been crocheted take a needleful of silk and darn backwards and forwards on the wrong side two or three times, slipping silk through the loop remaining on the crochet pin. The pin can then be removed, and another row of darning will make all secure.

This little job will take no longer than darning in the usual way. but you will have to do it in a good light. The result will be so satisfactory that you will never again note the appearance of a ladder with alarm.