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[Cakers3]

"French Knitting" is what we called 4 nails on a large spool.  Later my dad bought a "Knitting Nancy Kit".  So fancy.  LOL

I have a kit with a Princess spool and just started "knitting" with it this afternoon.  Needed something to take my mind off of some things.

Amazingly I still remembered how to do this.

[azgal]

We called it cattails.

[Cakers3]

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@azgal wrote:

We called it cattails.

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@azgal   Corking and tomboy knitting, too.

[azgal]

@Cakers3  Never heard of those! Funny how it has so many names.

[LdyBugz]

I remember doing that as a kid!  I just don't remember if we had a special name for it.  

[Oznell]

What fun, @Cakers3 !   I remember that, we might have done it in Vacation Bible School, or a girl's club, can't quite remember.  Those pictures you show are so tantalizing and colorful, like warm childhood memories of corner-store candy...

I'm going to have to look up more on it.  Thanks for the memory.   I hope it brings you lots of joy, and just the distraction you desire at this time.

[Cakers3]

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@Oznell wrote:

What fun, @Cakers3 !   I remember that, we might have done it in Vacation Bible School, or a girl's club, can't quite remember.  Those pictures you show are so tantalizing and colorful, like warm childhood memories of corner-store candy...

I'm going to have to look up more on it.  Thanks for the memory.   I hope it brings you lots of joy, and just the distraction you desire at this time.

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@Oznell   I bought the Princess spool  to teach my granddaughter but with all that has gone on there hasn't been time, sadly.

I wanted to make the bracelets with a little charm at the end with her.  Maybe this summer.

You mentioned corner-store candy.  I remember walking to school with my sisters and we would stop at a "penny" candy store every day on the way home.  I can still remember the scent in that store and the owner, a kindly old gentleman.

[Cakers3]

Some people do this with just their fingers, too.  A slip knot on the thumb and the four fingers are the pegs.

[Queen of shop]

@Cakers3  WOW! Flashback. I had a yellow plastic one as a kid.

[just bee]

Oooh, flashback.  My mother made one of these for me with wood and nails.  Around 1971, 1972...