Creative Corner!
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@iserbrown
Oh dear me.
Knickers changing time. Talk about laugh. That youtube video was classic. It's even more funny if you chromecast it to the TV.
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@iserbrown, that’s an absolute hoot!!1
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With some having younger children to entertain whilst we are in Lockdown - my niece sent me these some years ago (not that I had kids! LOL)
A dog from gloves (I'm a bit concerned about Step 5 - ooops I think it is the tail!) & a monkey from Socks!!
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This was on a CWA Facebook site and I must admit it did make me cackle as I can relate to it
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Had a natter on PM with some dear forum friends discussing our treasures of handicrafts.
In these pandemic times where our activities can be limiting, weather (winter), social distancing, no catch ups in a formal or casual setting et cetera ....some of us have looked into our box of left over wool and fabrics and perhaps found unfinished items or a bag of wool with a scratch of the head trying to remember what we thought were going to turn it into.
As well as planning something else and so it goes.....
Maybe you have some finished items that you haven't found someone that you want to pass it on to. I have two finished shawls that may become gifts.
Here's one of them
What about you?
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@iserbrown, @arpie and I had a lovely discussion on PM about knitting. It arose from me mentioning that i was contemplating knitting socks as I had mastered the use of circular knitting needles making large knitted rugs from scraps of leftover yarn.
Iser, who has forty years of sock knitting behind her, very kindly took the time to send me her instructions for knitting socks.
I sent her a photo of a baby's rug I had completed. Would you believe that not only had we knitted the same pattern we also have a collection of heirloom Patons Knitting books.
This is my version of the pattern. I knitted mine as a less complicated version. Possibly because I was lazy or wanted to finish it, probably the former.
Note the price on the pattern book. The book is so fragile that when I want to use a pattern I scan, print and laminate it for furthur use.
arpie's contribution to the knitting discussion was about repairing fishing equipment, maintenance of fishing equipment and use of fishing equipment. She has different talents.
PS the sock is coming along nicely. Took 3 "goes", am up to the heel. At a week a sock, this is going to be a slow process to produce a pair!
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A pair of socks takes me 16 hours or if you prefer 8 hours/sock......I always have a pair on the go and they go everywhere with me from home to Cape Leveque and everywhere in between. It becomes a talking point on the train to Melbourne
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Aaaaah! Heaven and thanks for posting. I have my Grandmother's 'Book of Hows' - photos and instructions for crewel embroidery stitches - I use it often. Also have my Mum's Tatting pattern books and her shuttles. I treasure my Patons knitting books for basic jumpers in 8ply - I find 'modern' patterns insufferingly difficult to follow and I've been knitting since I was five. Another 'tool' among my treasures is a rag rug 'hooker' - the commercial version of the home made pegger. Keep posting please!
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@Beryl C.
My Mum made beautiful tatted lace. Whenever she sat for a "rest" her tatting shuttle was always in her hands. She did try to teach me but my interest was in the faster crafts -sewing, knitting and crochet. I do wish I had perservered. The art of tatting has died with her.
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My Nana, mother and sister got all the knitting and sewing genes .... I go fishing!
How amazing you were both working on the same pattern! Great minds think alike!
You really can’t beat hand made socks .... so warm and comfy and long lasting!
Have you seen how to cut some (shop bought) socks to make them into face masks?? Clever!
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https://www.facebook.com/777759765/videos/10158588526774766/
this is a link to how to make face mask via socks
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Many Thanks @SoldierCrab - I meant to add the link - but forgot! LOL. That shows the extent of my concentration level today!!
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arpie - I would put fishing in the same category as 'handcrafts' - 'when the hands are busy the mind stills and the spirit soars', in other words, its a form of meditation that doesn't require tinkly bells etc. One of my Grans had seven children and coped with pioneer conditions - no running water or electricity - and she managed to embroider the baby clothes, she said it was 'her time'.
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Thanks for the posts, specially the photos of the beautiful baby knitting and the old pattern book. I have a treasured Anchor booklet: 100 Embroidery Stitches, published in 1967. No. 1 is Running Stitch, and No. 100 is Brick Stitch.3
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@jennyss
Wow on the book! It has stirred memories.
When at school a subject, where I always struggled to thread a needle was dressmaking. First item we made was a bag, machine sewn, and our name embroidered on the front in chain stitch. We also had to do samplers of various embroidery stitches and glue into an exercise book. I still have the bag and exercise book.2
