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02-20-2010, 04:55 PM
#41
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I never heard of French knitting. Can you please tell me about it? Maybe show us yours?
Originally Posted by Pzazz
I had a friend that is very much into model trains. I used to give him my empty spools and he made scenery bits with them. He turned serger cones into trees, smaller spools into fencing, etc.
And yes, I remember the wooden spools being used for "French knitting"...I still have mine from when I was a girl. ;)
Patti
And yes, I remember the wooden spools being used for "French knitting"...I still have mine from when I was a girl. ;)
Patti
02-20-2010, 04:56 PM
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What a lovely memory!!!
Originally Posted by Maire
I save all of mine, partly because of sentimentality. When I was a child in the 1940's we had very few toys due to the war & poor family. I would spend hours building houses, castles, etc with the empty spools, I loved those spools.
My children played with them & now grandchildren also play with them or string them on yarn for a necklace. True, they don't play with them as much as I did as a child but it thrils me when they do.
My children played with them & now grandchildren also play with them or string them on yarn for a necklace. True, they don't play with them as much as I did as a child but it thrils me when they do.
02-20-2010, 05:26 PM
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I've seen dolls made with the tiny spools (used for the legs and I think arms also). They have a wooden ball for a head, don't know what the body is made of, but when they are dressed in a cute little dress with a bonnet on the head, they are cute as the dickens. Probably not the best 'play toy' and they seem very labor intensive, but they are cute.
02-20-2010, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by OmaForFour
I never heard of French knitting. Can you please tell me about it? Maybe show us yours?
Originally Posted by Pzazz
I had a friend that is very much into model trains. I used to give him my empty spools and he made scenery bits with them. He turned serger cones into trees, smaller spools into fencing, etc.
And yes, I remember the wooden spools being used for "French knitting"...I still have mine from when I was a girl. ;)
Patti
And yes, I remember the wooden spools being used for "French knitting"...I still have mine from when I was a girl. ;)
Patti
Patti
02-20-2010, 06:03 PM
#46
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You can use the wooden spools to perch handmade pincushions on. In addition to quilter's Christmas trees, you can string them together and make a quilter's wreath. Those you can do in different colors and use them year round.
02-20-2010, 06:29 PM
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Check with your elementary school or playground leaders for summer art projects. The teachers or directors come up with all sorts of creative ideas for the children and will probably be very happy to receive the empty spools.
02-20-2010, 10:59 PM
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I'm hanging on to the wooden spools I have just in case I get a brainstorm or something.(yeah right!) I'm going to give my plastic spools to the art teacher at school. She always says she'll take whatever I have to give her so that's where mine are going.
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