# Darned sock on a mushroom

> The heel has been rebuilt more times than we could count.

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- Made by: Ada Merrin
- Date: 1940s
- Material: Wool, turned sycamore
- Size: Mushroom 13 cm tall
- Cost new: The mushroom: fourpence
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: Made to Mend, in the long case

Ada Merrin darned on Sunday evenings, and this sock was on the mushroom when the house was cleared, as if she had put it down to answer the door. The darn on the heel is in three greys: three different winters, three different balls of wool.

Nell runs a darning table on the second Saturday of the month, using copies of this mushroom turned by a volunteer.