General Chat

We called it french knitting and mine was a wooden cotton reel with 4 nails in the top.Used to use a hair pin or bodkin.

Tatting is done with a small shuttle and fine thread. It is verymuch like macrame but you use your hands and the shuttle to make 'lace'.

As a child I made dolls beds out of empty match boxes and made wool dolls to put in them.
The dolls were made from a few short strands of wool and tied with more wool at the head,neck, arms, body, legs etc....

(showing my age now)

Viv

Victoria

I know what you are talking about Scoubidou..I used to do them when i was younger and they were about again a couple of years ago

your more than welcome .now who said something about sanity never heard of it

there bits of plastic like a long shoelace that you do like french knitting but without the doll.and a bit like macrami

mine was a knitting dolly.corkings what you put on a ship so it doesn't sink.the french don't need tea cosys but i can think of other things they could do with yards and yards of .........i also made pom poms what about frech skipping useing elastic bands i used to pluck the hairs on your legs wether you liked it or not .has anyone tried scobbies?

We called it french Knitting

my dad made ours with a cotton reel and 4 nails and my mums hair crip...we wern't posh lol

I used to do this as a child too, but I think we used to call it "tatting". Does anyone else remember that name?

Frances

I used to use an old cotton reel with 4 tacks on the top and I called it corkwork

Bren

We knew it as corking too Kaz but then grandma was from the Black Country so perhaps that's where it came from, lol. We made pompoms by wrapping wool around the cardboard tops from milk bottles.

Thanks Margaret - it took me back too - isn't it starnge when something comes back to you after many many years!

well obviously only a few in my case Lol

well I really must pop out now but lets cork and wave our pom poms proudly !

Kaz (who should really shurrup now)

Sally we could start a 'Bring back Corking' Campaign!

I think I might have a go too, Amanda, would be fun I think!

Am so glad you corked Deb instead of the french knitting lol

Kaz :o))


Off out now catch ya all later!

yes , i remember that, but it was with an empty old cotton reel,I spent many hours pinning myself!! lol

oh I had one and it does bring back fond memories. In the summers my mates and I would climb up into our tree house and spend hours corking. It became an obsession and great contest as at the end of each week we would measure to see who's was the longest. We were all working at making one big gigantic rug by putting all our efforts together. Thing is then we argued about whos house would hold this wonderful creation and in the end it never did get made. lol

The cotton reels are plastic now Kaz, I tried knocking some nails in one and it didn't work.....yes and I made pom-poms too....my Mum taught me to knit and the rest.....never any good with crochet though.....

Do you remember the paper flowers in the 70's....?

Yes, remember French Knitting too.

Also remember making pom poms on the doughnut thingies!

Lol Catherine - I do not know what you mean ??? pmsl

Sally I do remember having a cotton reel too when my dolly broke. It is a shame it is lost on the kids of today but I'm sure some would like it

Oh just had another memory flashy thing - making pom poms on doughnut-shaped pieces of cardboard!

*still wondering why Brummies called it 'corking'

Just googled it, and it is priced at £3.50......Maybe an idea as a stocking present for a 7 or 8 year old.....or are they more sophisticated now.....

Lol Dawnie I know!!!! I still remember us talking on our mobiles to each other only a hundred yards apart !!

Thanks Joy - 0h yaay!


*skips off feeling all perspica ..... thingy*

Yes, I made a carpet by waiting until I had a really long bit of the knitting and sewing it into a catherine wheel......when I was about 12.....

I actually found one last year, it is like a wooden doll and I bought it for when my granddaughter is old enough to take interest.....it is still in its box and is made in India, it is called a Pony French Knitter....

My Dad used to put nail tacks (4) in a cotton reel for me and my Sis.....

only corking I know kaz is the vino variety sorry
catherine
xx