when i was likkle way way back in the mists of time i used to do this knitting kind of thing with a cotton reel and four panel pins that produced like a rope thingy out the bottom of the cotton reel useing mostly end pieces of my mams knitting wool i remember gettin this long multicoloured "rope" that you could sew together to make spirally type items like egg cosies
Does any one still do this ?
I also remember using cardboard squares with the top and bottom cut with a pinking scissors wrapping wool around the serations and using a bent weaving needle to produce woven wool squares which could be sewn into quilts or in my case place mat,s also the mystical art of useing card circles to make woolly pompoms
Libby
that was in the days when cotton reels where wooden!!!!!
my daughter does chinese braiding, and has had a go at tatting too!
Kathy
I still do french knitting! I got an extra large one made with dowling taking the place of pins, I make bag straps for my woven bags with it.
also the mystical art of useing card circles to make woolly pompoms 
