General Chat
Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!
- The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
- You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
- And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
- The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.
Quick Search
Single word search
Icons
- New posts
- No new posts
- Thread closed
- Stickied, new posts
- Stickied, no new posts
You need this to start?
Profile | Posted by | Options | Post Date |
---|---|---|---|
|
SylviaInCanada | Report | 23 Jan 2017 19:08 |
maggie ............. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Sharron | Report | 23 Jan 2017 11:34 |
Matchstick and a rubber band, been there ,done that. |
|||
|
Bobtanian | Report | 23 Jan 2017 11:02 |
I remember making tractors...............(or was it tanks?) out of wooden cotton reels...my mum worked in the rag trade, and would fetch home all sorts of different reels...... |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Jan 2017 22:41 |
So have I - courtesy of my gran and ex's aunt. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
SylviaInCanada | Report | 22 Jan 2017 22:18 |
I still have a few wooden reels in my sewing box :-) |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Jan 2017 20:50 |
Ah, but cotton reels are now plastic :-( |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
SylviaInCanada | Report | 22 Jan 2017 20:30 |
...... and now you buy a kit |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Sharron | Report | 22 Jan 2017 15:54 |
French knitting was an old cotton reel with four brads in it and a thin knitting needle or a darning needle. |
|||
|
maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Jan 2017 13:36 |
I couldn't believe it when I saw a pom-pom template!! :-0 |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
UzziAndHerDogs | Report | 22 Jan 2017 02:06 |
It does make you wonder how our ancestors turned out wonderful things without all this specialised stuff :-D |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Sharron | Report | 21 Jan 2017 23:41 |
I think I am being a bit specialized because I now have three pairs of scissors but I don't even think there were rotary cutters when I started. |
|||
|
ann | Report | 21 Jan 2017 23:20 |
I am not sure either lol. I do have a rotary cutter than my granddaughter has used. Looks better than scissors and a board with feet and inches on. Hope you get to finish that quilt x |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Sharron | Report | 21 Jan 2017 22:57 |
I think I have mentioned that I am working towards finishing a patchwork bedspread I started in the seventies.Now, I can't pretend that I know how to quilt or even exactly what quilting entails but sometimes the whole process is referred to as quilting. |