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Posted by Mary Fisher on June 13, 2008, 2:47 pm

> Joy Beeson wrote:
>
>> I carefully stored the empty spool, because over in Pierceton the
>> antique shops are selling wooden spools for more than I paid for these
>> spools when they had eight hundred yards of 5/3 cotton on them. Not
>> that I would attempt to sell them, since I have my own uses for old
>> wooden spools. I have vastly more than needed, but wooden spools are
>> getting harder to find, and I'm planning to live two or three decades
>> longer.
>
> Joy, what do you use yours for? I have a modest collection myself - a
> small biscuit tin full - because I knew I shouldn't throw them away but
> don't know what to do with them. Oh yes, when the children were tiny I
> had all the thoughts of making them a "bobbin necklace" to chew on, but
> never got round to it, and now the grandchildren all have all their teeth!
> Not that their parents would have allowed them to chew on anything as
> unsanitary as old, wooden thread bobbins, nowadays they all have to have
> nice, clean plastic (hehhehhehheh).

Yeah ...

How did we manage to live so long, chewing on unhygienic keys - and worse!?

Mary



Posted by Joy Beeson on June 13, 2008, 5:33 pm
wrote:

> Joy, what do you use yours for?

I wind stuff on them. I just went through my tape box and moved all
the tapes on spools onto cards, though, so I'm using only two at the
moment: one for white 100/6 cotton thread, and one for ecru 100/6
cotton thread.

I think there's a spool with four finishing nails in it around here
someplace, too. I used to have a hair tie that had been knitted on
one, anyway. Easier to make I-cord than spool cord, but if one has a
grandchild to keep out of one's hair . . .

Joy Beeson
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Posted by Mary Fisher on June 14, 2008, 4:44 am

> wrote:
>

>
> I think there's a spool with four finishing nails in it around here
> someplace, too. I used to have a hair tie that had been knitted on
> one, anyway. Easier to make I-cord than spool cord, but if one has a
> grandchild to keep out of one's hair . .

Here that's called 'dolly peg' or 'French knitting' but there's a more
modern word I don't know.

It doesn't produce a cord, rather a tube of circular knitting. Keeps
children occupied for hours!

Mary



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