Oh yes wool wound around two bits of card. I did it quite recently actually - giant size using rafia to make cheerleader style pom poms for my friend's daughters.

Is french knitting the one with 4 nails in a cotton reel?

Yes I remember that and that was exactly it. You ended up with a bit of woolley rope that had no practical use at all. I often wondered why the french didn't do knitting that was more useful!

Night Moosey. xx

That figures. Clearly your destiny from a young age. However it has put me to mind of the oddness of the idea of taking wool from a sheep, spinning it etc, winding it around two cardboard circles to makie pom poms to make into a sheep. Weird things we humans do. No wonder cats look at us like we are potty.

That sounds exciting! Might give it a try.

Yes I had four nails in a cotton reel too. Still never made anything worth looking at.

Night all, x



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Morning all peeps!! I guess four nails in a cotton reel would do the job....only you would need a wooden one which were being phased out even when I was a lass. The French knitting was only good for mats and coasters when spiralled and sewn together...otherwise it was useless

But think of the possibilities of what you could create if you knitted enough worms. I'm talking like millions. I'm thinking you could make some rather fetching wormy bags for starters (I have a thing for knitted bags ) Be a bit of a bugger stitching them all together mind

Wormy bags, wormy SWEATERS, wormy cat blankets....actually the possibilities are endless!

just popping in to wish you all a merry christmas!
nudey cleo was right, i did get banned but it was just a temporary one.

THERE you are!!! Oh dear, still you're back now. I've been saving the final epsodes of season 3 Vikings. I may have to watch some today now you're here.....and then I will watch ALL of it again

oh good grief don't WAIT
celebrate the winter solstice with some vikingyness

You get knitting and I'll book us a spot at London Fashion Week and Dragon's Den

And just so you all know it's safe to come back in .... I'm completely de-feraled !!!!!!!

Well, old Yule as would have been celebrated by the Vikings lasted 12 days so I don't want to be running out!!


I'll have to search round the charity shops for a Knitting Nancy first!

saw on QI last night christmas used to last 38 days
i shall be reverting to The Old Ways....

Not that I'm biased or anything but the old ways ARE the best.

I think I will make a cuppa and stick an episode on

very wise.....perhaps some kind of patisserie products should be ingested to get in the mood for Paris....

Yes, Paris is next.....I have festive froot cake. That will have to do.

Did you see the Season 4 spoilerage???

i may have done *adjusts face so as to give no clues*

Ineed planets that is what I meant

We shall have to brace ourselves very bracingly indeed.....right, brew made, disc inserted!

let the invasion begin

We're not QUITE there yet, currently shenanigans at Kattegut

uh oh ....

Who IS that wanderer??

dream causer

Welcome back! Tut, mixing with undesireables again

I will now stick my fingers in my ears while you and twass have your viking chat.

It was a weird one tk! Apparently stating i had studied t'ai chi and qigong for a number of decades to someone who had only read an article about the effects of qigong, was deemed "provocative" I did write and ask what exactly was provocative but i never got a reply i'm guessing t'ai chi is provocative in and of itself. It was banned under Mao in China with many of the masters being sent to labour camps as being a practitioner was regarded as being an Anarchist *sings PiL song* luckily many of them escaped to Taiwan so the teachings didn't die out.

Thank you for my passionfruit sorbet though i tried getting some myself but there were none left only strawberry

Are you all christmased up? We have flood warnings here and the river is very high and flooding all the neighbouring fields *eek*