IT IS MADE on a COTTON REEL!

[trashingdays]

Another one from "The Book of Good Needlework".


Here's a link to one you can enlarge enough to read the text:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21057963@N08/2337698412/

[Rascal Kosher]

That would be a cool accessory.

Thanks for sharing.

[mrsflibble]

I have nails, I have a vintage wooden cotton reel..... mwahahahaha (<- my evil "I'm hatching a plan" laugh)

[Jolyon]

My Granny taught my how to do this when I was 8 she must have been about 88 then (so maybe she learnt it from something like this).  I think I was getting under her feet too much so she went off to her shed and created one for me.  We call it French Knitting but I dont know if that is really correct.  I never made a necklace from it though.  I should try it she would be amused to hear I still have the 'apparatus' she made for me.  Thanks for sharing!

[funkyjunkdesigns]

I make wire chains on a spool just like this.  I have them in 3, 4 and 5 peg.

I actually have never tried using yarn...that's too easy!LOL!  I have to do the hard stuff.

fjd

[kimski]

Yay!
We called it "knitting nancy". It was all the rage when I started school. 

[tatmom]

so is this the predecessor to all the 'knitting looms' in the craft aisle at W*lmart?