Pompoms

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Math do you remember using a bobbin with 4 nails at the top to `knit` a long tube?

thriftlady_2

Ooh,my Mum did that too-knitting nancy

lucym

French Knitting

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lol
That brings it back. We children were easily occupied in those days

thriftlady_2

My lot are still easily occupied by this sort of activity.The scoubidou craze kept them quiet for days.I think I might do some pom poms with dd,Mum will have some wool

maryb

I needed to make some very small pompoms recently for a costume and it was impossible to cut samll enough circles in cardboard.

then inspiration - I'd gone to Wickes with DH and I saw a big packet of 'penny washers' - flat washers about the size of a 2p piece with a hole the size of an old half penc coin in the middle - for not very much money and two of those are brilliant for very small pompoms

FunkyFairy

I use to make trophys out of breakaway wrappers thats another memory i had forgotton until just now TY

comping_cat

kittie wrote:

Math do you remember using a bobbin with 4 nails at the top to `knit` a long tube?

I bought a french knitter for DD this xmas from toys r us!!!!

MATH

kittie wrote:

Math do you remember using a bobbin with 4 nails at the top to `knit` a long tube?

Yeh, we did all that kinda stuff and we had a huge dressing up cupboard full of fur stoles with the heads still on:eek: and overcoats and helmets from the war. My mum works and I often feel my kidz are missing out compaired to me who had a cross-over pinnied granny on tap all day.

Mr_Proctalgia

Been talking to the oldies again - What about Cats Cradle - Hopscotch, Conkers, Dobbies, Marbles, Snobbs, French Cricket, Rounders, Trolleys (made from Pram parts), Marbles.

Stuck for words now