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Knitting Nancy Kit - Stocking fillers up to £3 Couldn't use a cotton reel now, they're plastic! |
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Thanks for that Retlaw, now I remember girls at school seeing who could get the longest.
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Did the pom-pom thing too. Cut two discs out of cardboard with a hole in the middle. Thread wool through over the discs back to the hole until it was full. Then cut all the threads on the edge, tied with a piece of wool in the middle; pull through the hole and ... presto... a lovely pom-pom. :D Make your own pom poms |
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There was another which comes to memory, a cardboard milk bottle top which had a hole in the middle and you wound wool round and round untill it made a thick mat you then(I think) cut the wool all around the outside of the milk bottle top tied the middle and it then made a pom pom.Easier to do than explain.
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My favourite was making pom-poms to go on woolly hats though -mum used to get us to make those as she knitted the hats, scarves and gloves!:D |
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Mum used to make crepe flowers to put in various vases about the house. Loved helping her. They were really pretty; anything from chrysanthemums to roses.
Wonder if people still do this. Here is a link showing one type of flower; lovely, isn't it. How To Make Crepe Paper Flowers |
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And don't come back with: "Eric, you're a cab";) |
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We also used to make two holes in tin lids , put string through them , colour the lids with differrent colours of chalk , and then make them spin round to give a nice colourful effect . We called them yo-yos , but they wern't the type you can buy in shops . |
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"Where's our lad ?" "E's inda jigger, playin' wid is 'ummer !" ;) |
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Can remember when I was young everything used to go in seasons there was the marble season, conker season, of curse cricket and football, bonfire season which started in august, in as much as collecting the wood and everything that went with it, going stealing wood from other gangs, all great fun
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