French knitting

When you mention to a friend that you remember doing this as a child then she kindly gifts you the cotton reel with nails in place.
I think hubby regrets asking what I am going to do with it!

[Pam]

This is great!

[Babs]

Oh I remember French knitting, it kept me occupied for hours when I was a child. My kids enjoyed it too. It is good you have old fashioned cotton reels to carry on the craft.

[Kate]

I never heard of French knitting so I looked it up. Quite interesting. Love your image.

[Esther Rosenberg]

Oh , yeah, I did this as a kid ! Great minimalist photography shot

[katy]

FAV beautifully simple photo with fabulous light. Plastic spools today will prevent future generations from learning this

[Diana]

What a great composition and shot, I used to spend days doing this! So did my kids.

[Lis Lapthorn]

Certainly brings back memories.

[JackieR]

Lovely entry to challenge thank you

[Jacqueline]

Beautiful minimalistic shot, what are you going to make?

[Susan Wakely]

@jacqbb let’s just say it’s a work in progress!!

[Mags]

Very cool and you've got a good start!

[Nina Ganci]

wow! so many memories come flooding back!
Great capture
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[Carole Sandford]

Remember it well, but I never knew what to do with it! 😂

[LManning (Laura)]

Oh my goodness. Such a flashback to days at camp.

[Ingrid]

I did this too!

[Cazzi]

Oh this was so exciting right at the beginning when you started to see it come through the other end of the reel. I used to make mats, ,mats and then more mats haha!

[Corinne C]

A minimalist composition with a great story!

[Kathy]

Lovely look at the cord you're making and the process. I stlll have the tool that I got as a child to do this. We called it 'spool' knitting. Now I'm dying to know what you told your husband.

[amyK]

Nicely composed shot

[Shutterbug]

I’m going to have to look this up to see how it manages to come out the other end. Fascinating.

[Renee Salamon]

Love this

[Dione Giorgio]

What great memories of my childhood days this picture brings. As children we used to compete who makes the longest reel and we used to use them as a harness for a friend to act being the horse. Thanks for sharing this lovely image.

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Paul Williamson]

We used to call it "corking". Do you remember you coiled buy painted wooden soldiers with four pins in their head?

[Leli]

Great shot and what a memory. I didn't know it was called French Knitting. @sangwann and Dione is right. That's what we used to do with the multicoloured result. Dione, I had one of the longest "tails" at my school:)