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Wooden cotton reel and 4 nails

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Anyone remember knitting a long woollen tube this way with a cotton reel and 4 nails in one end? I am trying to remember what this is called
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Corking?

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Yes it was corking, I bought something similar for my grandaughter a couple of years ago called 'Knitting Nancy' or something like that.

It was in the shape of a doll. The only reason I bought it was cos I couldn't find a wooded cotton reel anywhere :roll:
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Corking- that's it! Thank you
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We used to call it "French Knitting".

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You can find something similar in Dunelm - bought some for the kids last year - they loved it
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Anyone remember "Shaky Bottle" :?: ? ? ?

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Kleftiwallah wrote:We used to call it "French Knitting".

Cheers, Tony.


Thats what we called it too.
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We called it corking, the French knitting we did was knitting without needles, bit like crochet :-)
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hat did "shaky bottle" involve?- I don't remember that
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I remember shaky bottle.I drank some once when playing football over Hurst Green Park.The older lads told me it was cold tea!!
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What is it ????
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:sick: I'd blanked this from my mind back in 1958. :shock:
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But what is it ???????
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Antie Em wrote:But what is it ???????


I dread to think what Rob means (think i know though!) :sick:

I think this is more like the original meaning - http://childhoodlist.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... ttles.html
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