I never heard of French knitting. Can you please tell me about it? Maybe show us yours?

What a lovely memory!!!

I save mine sometime they ask for them during bibleschool
I try to keep a lot of craft supplies on hand just in case

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.

Tippy gave a good description of how the spool and headless nails, or brads, are set up. I can't post a pic of mine as it is in a trunk "somewhere" in the garage. :roll: If you google "french knitting on a spool"....there are some good pictorals there.

Patti

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.

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.

I use them to make clowns with the young children really have a ball making up games with or they wear making up dances in Girl Scouts.

I agree, with Polly 13 or check with the Kindergarten teachers in your area, they always need supplies for projects.

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.

I had a simple recipe from a Current book once that used the plastic spools- the ones that look like a wheel with widely spaced spokes on the end- for a cookie press. I would think it would work with any sugar cookie recipe. I don't know if they still use this style spool anymore either- I'm getting as old as dirt and have little short term memory left!

Also - my brother used to make little "tractors" with a wooden spool and a matchstick and a rubber band, but I couldn't really remember how it was done exactly.

school will often take your emptie spools and put in ther art department i gave some to my church they used them in vacation bible school i also swa a lamp base made with spools at a craft fair all i can say is she did a lot of sewing or new a lot of quilters just a few ideas

Youngsters can paint them and then thread them on strings to make a necklace. :-D

Yes, I sure do and the big long tube that came out if we tried to make a circular rug out of it. Boy thats going back a long ways.

I've used the larger spools to run up left over bias binding.

A long long time ago trains were made out of emplty spools. :D

Yep....that's pretty much what happens to mine, too!! :D

I remember those knitting spools. My sister and I, when we were little girls ages ago, each had one that an uncle made for us. Wooden spools with finishing nails used for the posts. Kept us busy for a little while and we made these long knitted ropes.

I save all of mine in a big basket in my sewing room. I have mostly plastic ones but a gracious quilter sent me her wooden ones awhile back. My grandkids use them for cars, dolls, building blocks ...anything their little imaginations come up with!!!!

My husband just requested my empty spools, especially the small ones. I think he is using them with his jig-tying.

judyjo

poor quial, that's mean..lol

I use my empty spools, wooden (had some for a long time) and the plastic ones to make pin cushions for sewer friends for gifts. Don't have any to show now but I will very soon and will post them. I ask other sewers to save theirs for me.

Yep, sure do! LOL I am datind myself

That is way too funny. Suppose to be a toy for the quail but ended up entertaining the bf. Just like Big kids...LOL