Two SpecSavers Home Visit Vehicles outside two adjacent properties. Is this a case of Double Vision?
Yesterday was very busy, lots happening on the craft front. One thing I hadn't done for ages...
I bought this little knitting doll in Flying Tiger a couple of summers ago, and meant to teach Rosie but then forgot.
Now I have a genuine reason for wanting to make some cords myself, so I sat and had a practice after lunch.
I will explain later!
The 2x2 project is progressing slowly. K and I are exchanging a lot of WhatsApp messages. I will be glad when the weather brightens up, it's cold and damp found here!
How funny about the duplicate cars!
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DeleteI'm sure Rosie will enjoy learning how to make cords using that doll. :)
ReplyDeleteI suspect she will prefer crochet
DeleteMy 2by2 has been racing along... it's a welcome distraction from what I ought to be doing!
ReplyDeleteI doing mine sporadically between other jobs
DeleteI'm both tortoise and hare; have just unpicked some.... having a rest, will do a bit more racing tomorrow
DeleteI used to do this at school! I wonder why it was called 'French' knitting?
ReplyDeleteApparently Les Tricoteuses, the women revolutionaries who sat knitting whilst the aristos were guillotined, used a similar (but larger) spool method to knit hats.
DeleteMy Gran used to make me a knitting Nancy from an old thread spool and some little nails. I was beyond delighted the year I got a painted one from a friend of Mum’s as a Christmas present. Happy and simpler days. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI don't think I ever had a fancy one as a child - just a spool and four nails!
DeleteDouble vision? Very funny!
ReplyDeleteI remember doing French knitting and making coasters out of the coiled cord.
I think many of us made a huge ball of coiled cord, then wondered what to do with it!
DeleteThis method of knitting dates back at least 400 years. Also called knitting Jenny, or knitting Nelly. It became very popular pastime in Victorian times
ReplyDeleteLovely to see the knitting doll.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
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DeleteThat one is particularly cute, it made me smile to see it! Such a simple and clever design.
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DeleteI must look out for a knitting doll, there's a Flying Tiger in Derby and we're taking Iris in next week so she can pick her birthday present and having lunch too. Although she picked up knitting fairly quickly with 2 ordinary pins. Weather very wet and grey here, the culvert that runs down the estate is fairly gushing with water. Xx
ReplyDeleteSome of their wooden toys are good value - the plastic stuff not so durable
DeleteI still have the knitting doll that I had nearly 80 years ago!
ReplyDeleteThat is wonderful
DeleteI remember doing French knitting as a child. I think my grandma taught me with a wooden cotton reel and nails in the top. I had a lot of fun with that.
ReplyDeleteThe simplest ones are the best
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