When I was a kid, I received a knitting spool for Christmas. Do you know what I mean?
It was called a wide range of names including Knitting Nancy, Knitting Bob, and Dolly Bobbin to name a few. The knitting spool was one of many crafts my mother bought that was intended to keep me busy. Ironically, I had to learn from the instructions because my mother did not spool or knit.
A long chain comes out the bottom as you weave or knit the top of the spool.
My problem was that I wasn't sure what to do with the cording I made. Eventually it disappeared like a lot of other toys that did not occupy us.
But apparently, this form of knitting was very popular in Canada and the USA. Children learned it at school and partipated in school competitions:
Saskatchewan, Canada: 1938
Children often wrote to the local newspaper about their hobbies and spool knitting was among those interests. But it wasn't just children who did spool knitting. One of the surprising articles I found was a Nancy Page ad published in 1935:
It wasn't a craft that just fizzled out and died. In 1969, an article was syndicated throughout the country about a teenager who spool knit as she recovered from spinal surgery:
Ooh, look! A Mickey Mouse one!
You can still buy brand knew knitting spools. My question is did you have one as a child (or now). Did you use it or like it?
Have a safe and happy day!
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