When I was around 5 or 6, an elderly Russian neighbor taught me to "spool knit" to make hot pads. back then, all thread spools were made of wood and you made a loom by nailing 4 finishing nails into one end of the spool, you looped yarn around each nail and made a cord that you then coiled & stitched together for a hot pad.. My interests include knittiing, crocheting, looming, sewing cooking gardening and wood working......and learning ... Read Full Bio »
When I was around 5 or 6, an elderly Russian neighbor taught me to "spool knit" to make hot pads. back then, all thread spools were made of wood and you made a loom by nailing 4 finishing nails into one end of the spool, you looped yarn around each nail and made a cord that you then coiled & stitched together for a hot pad.. My interests include knittiing, crocheting, looming, sewing cooking gardening and wood working......and learning something about anything I don't know anything about. I look up everything on the internet....at 72, I don't know what I ever did in my youth without the internet :-)
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