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Try using a tiny crochet needle. If you have some stretchy thread like you use in the serger that might be better than regular thread.

I've got a tiny latchet tool with a hook 2mm wide which would be ideal, but you'd have to work upwards, facing your own leg, if you left the tights on- a bit tricky - Have you tried a very fine crochet hook and a big magnifying glass?? Jan

If you have a large sheet of posterboard, that would be great...and make a tube approximately the size of your leg and slip the stocking on that so that you can stitch up without being a contortionist. I do that for sleeves sometimes. And of course then you need one of those little hook things.

lol-instead of trying to hide and cover up just make a tatoo and be in vogue. Maureen

I see you have plenty of good tips - I would stretch the stocking over something else - then try any one of the ways to catch that loose thread or just learn to live with it with the ladder in it.

Yep get someones else to do it lol

growing up my mother used to darn our socks slipped the sock over a lightbulb

I know you had many posts about taking the stockings back. I still think that is the best solution. They were terribly expensive if I remember. Good luck Meganne. Sarah.

I put the wayward stocking over my darning mushroom and before I could grab the stitch the stinking ladder ran even further!!!!!
Ray, bless his loving heart, went and found a table top lighted magnifier and brought it upstairs for me so I could see better, so maybe I'll do a better darning job this time. :-)))

I don't know about you, Meganne, but I think I'd be calling the company that made them and complaining about how poorly made they were and what a pain in the behind they have been. I'd ask if this is a typical pair, what you can expect with all of their stockings. They will say no of course, that this must not be typical. Then ask for either a replacement of one of their typical better quality stockings, or refund. They will, of course, choose to keep the money and send you a new pair. You shouldn't have to go through all this to save a pair of defective stockings. Really, lady, don't you think this is true? You shouldn't have to have a SAGA of the Stockings. This isn't a kitten up a tree, it's a poorly made product :-) just my opinion - grrrrrrrrr is what I say! Jan

tiny crochet hook. but I am sure your moment has passed, They need to sell insurance with those things! You know the extended warranty! Live Laugh Download Stitch!