H for Helping Hands

I picked up the French Knitting technique immediately, totally forgotten I knew how to do the braiding. My friend really copped ( got cross) and demanded she make pom-poms instead!! ( Thanks Katy for spotting toping orror!)

[katy]

I’m thinking your friend made pom-poms and not pop poems?

I have seen this technique before but I am wondering what you use the braid for? Is there nothing you can’t do? Fantastic photo of your process

[Joan Robillard]

I remember having one of these when I was a child.

[JackieR]

@grammyn I can't even blame sodding Siri!!
@joansmor me too!!!

[Kathy]

I like the photo of the hands working to make the cords. The vintage tool is interesting to see. I like the nail heads. I still have the little tool to do this somewhere in my craft stuff. I think it's easier to get one of those hand crank i-cord tools. Cheap enough and much faster.

[Shutterbug]

Love the pov with the craft in the foreground and the hands working in the back.

[wendy frost]

Great capture. I used to love doing this as a child but never knew what to do with the it when I had finished of course nowadays we only have to look on Pinterest. You have an antique wooden cotton reel.

[Granny7(Denise)]

wonderful focus

[Jacqueline]

That brings back memories

[KoalaGardens🐨]

oh wow, I remember this too!

[Susan Wakely]

I need to get out a cotton reel, pins and wool to give this ago after soooo many years.

[Pyrrhula]

Show this pic. to my wife. She had a lot of memories doing this in her childhood. We call this : Punniken

[Valerie Chesney]

Oh Lots of memories here for me too... & pom poms! Love the hands in the background.

[narayani]

Great shot. I remember doing this as a kid. Then cotton reels became plastic and you had to buy a special (plastic) kit to do it.

[Esther Rosenberg]

I did this as kid :)

[JackieR]

@dutchothotmailcom had miles of it, no idea what I made!
@narayani the teacher had sourced a dozen wooden cotton reels and made these
@happysnaps these ladies were really struggling
@pyrrhula thanks Ferry, don't know why we call it French knitting
@wakelys and make what??
@koalagardens my long term memory seems ok as I was only one to complete the cord, but have yet to make the flower brooch ( probably won't, just like in childhood just have a long bit of coloured wool!)
@jacqbb it was fun and relaxing
@denful thank you, unintentional, but glad it worked
@wendyfrost I'll be popping there to see what to make as I don't have a Sindy doll anymore got her to have yet another scarf!!!
@shutterbug49 love to say done on purpose.....
@randystreat but not as relaxing!!

[haskar]

Great pov and dof. Lovely storytelling capture.

[Merrelyn]

I loved doing this as a child. I bought a kit for one of my granddaughters but it was so hard to use that I even gave up on it . I should have just dug some old wooded cotton reels out.

[Jennifer Eurell]

I used to do this when I was a kid - and that's a long time ago - and on Sylko reels as well.

[Kathy A]

I remember using a cotton reel with nails when I was a kid