What is it?

CheriGENERAL

Can you identify the item pictured below?
Is it a …
a)  sock darner
b)  marracha
c)  herb masher
d)  tart tamper

If you guessed (a) sock darner
you are correct!

The domestic diva showed up today.  
I rocked this little gadget and darned 15 socks!

By my calculations, I figure around $35 was saved by repairing our (mostly mine) socks.
The sock darner belonged to my grandmother, then my mother.
I’ve used it many times over the years — not as much as I could have. Or should have.
But enough to make me feel domestic (and frugal) every decade or so.