How to knit Antique Patterns with a Vintage Toy
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- I recently found my knitting nancy or my little i-cord spool knitter and decided to see if I could finish the project I had started on it over 20 years ago. I also happened to find an antique pattern book on what to make out of icords - like a hammock for a doll!
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A cute project, but also a nice reminder that we can always come back to a project after it has been put away or forgotten for a long time. There is no rush to finish something when the point is to bring joy.
As a child I used to do french knitting. My loom was an old wooden cotton bobbin with 4 nails hammered in the top.
That brings back memories from the late 1950s ❤
Mine was the same! Fun times!
Me too. My mom bought my kids a " real one" that was made to look like a doll. Never seemed legit to me 😅
Same here. I didn't see the commercial ones till the 1980s
Same here!
Was always taught that I could only make like necklaces and bracelets with it. Just listening to what I could have made with French knitting blew my mind 🤯
Those cakes looked fun too!
Hi! Off topic, but just wanted to thank you for inspiring me to take up knitting. It has been about two years now and I'm working on a copy of the 20s Prince of Wales Fair Isle Jersey. And I was thinking today about how without your (and Claude's) wonderful interesting, engaging content, I'd never have tried this!
my grandma gave me one of these that was a block of wood with nails in it and when i saw yours i exclaimed "that's what I had!" so thanks for that
I made a little circular mat out of i-cord when I was a kid. I made the i-cord with finger knitting. I didn't have a little tool and kept the loops on my fingers instead. It was very loose, but I was very proud of myself. Honestly still kind of am. I made a little rug and I was like 7.
It is cool when you find something from a long time ago and discover that you can use it in your current life. I recently found a scrap of fabric from a quilt a made a long time ago for my nephew. It was at least 30 years ago, probably more.
This just makes me laugh. I used to play with a green Strickliesl when I was a kid (90s) and made i-cord upon i-cord, dragging them around the house. In hindsight, I'm surprised no one tripped on them. My mom just recently brought them over - in fact, she brought my green one and the one my mom had as a kid, which was red? - and we're getting some good use out of them. I am no longer making i-cords on DPNs LOL
I have a hammock like that, which was my grandmother’s from when she was a girl, probably around 1905! 😁
I love that it’s called French knitting, here we call it « tricotin » 😉 mine is a mushroom that I’ve had since I was a little and I’m pretty sure it was old even back then 🙂 I love all the things we can do with just one simple toy 🙂🙂🙂
Wow that was so interesting and inspiring. I love how you tied up your young child ideology with the the young woman you have become now in the form of a trivet that housed a beautiful cake you made as well. ❤😊 Beautiful
It does bring back memory! How did you sew it together? The Roman dodecahedron theory is very cute, and I research when I heard about it, but it doesn’t hold. Most of them are tiny, around 4 or 5 cm tall with tiny holes or even no holes at all. Pretty different from the 3D printed version used in video. If only a few were usable that way I don’t find it convincing that is the actual usage.
It was a long time before I saw a commercially produced version of this device. Like a previous respondent, those that I and my friends used were made from thread spools with finishing nails hammered in. And if the spool was big enough, more than 4 nails were used. We also started stitching the cord as we went along, working until the mat was big enough.
Your cakes are absolutely stunning!!!!! I always appreciate your fascinating semi-deep dives into the history of what you are working on. I have always used my lucet, and french knitter for making drawstrings and trim for my over dresses (we participate in medieval reenactment), and you just opened a world of new ideas!! I can't wait to make a trivet now! Thanks for always inspiring us, you are a true gem!
A couple of days ago, I stumbled across your video about making socks with a CSM. I know very little about knitting, and even less about circular knitting. It was the first time I'd ever seen a hand-cranked device like that one. Anyway, I decided to look up circular knitting on Wikipedia, and that's when I first learned of the existence of a Knitting Nancy.
And now, just two days later, you post a video about that.
When I was little I had a Strickliesel as well.... and then I got upgraded to a knitting mill! That may or may not had to do with that my mom got lots and lots of old yarn from my grandma and she didn't know what to do with it...
I cranked out miles and miles of i-cord, which my mom used to tie old newspapers together and things like that. I still have it and actually made myself a coaster like you did last year.
I love vintage crafty gadgets! But for some reason, I don't have one of these yet, though I have other little looms. And how fun to finish up a childhood project! A couple years ago, I finished up a couple projects I started as a teenager and it felt so good.
😄🥰 I could listen to you talk for HOURS! 😂
I remember them being called knitting knobbys. Vaguely remember using them in girl scouts, they were made out of wooden spools and finishing nails. We may have made trivets, but not sure.
She is called Strikke-Lise in danish as well. I have kept mine from my childhood.
And they are still available in Denmark. In toy stores and in knitting stores too. There’s a knitting machine version too, with just 4 needles and a crank.
This is so much fun! I often wondered what one would do with the Strickliesel product. Thank you for sharing the history, pictures (adorable!) and your cute project.
Absolutely love your videos. that so cool about finding your own work from decades past! you are looking radiant too. boops for sweet Nutella! enjoy your parent’s place!
I made one of those out of PVC pipe and paperclips as a kid when I was trying to figure out how to knit. They were listed in the toy catalogs as a "knitting mushroom"
Absolutely FASCINATING!!!! Makes me feel like I want to have a go and create a few things you mentioned!😊
I bought a clover version of this a few years ago and was making wire beaded necklaces with it. Must go look for it.
I remember using a cotton reel with 4 nails in it to do icord although we called it French knitting in the UK. These days I use a knitting mill...you could have done all that icord in an hour with one of those!
I had the same experience as you with my French knitting. I had a homemade one using a wooden cotton reel, & discovered it years after playing with it as a child. I extended it to the length of a knee rug I crocheted, & used the i-cord to trim the edge of the rug. It was so nice to see all the different scraps I used, & to remember what they were from.
We had some of those when we were little. Daddy made them out of wooden thread spools and tiny nails. We used steel crochet hooks from Ben Franklin. We just made worms.
I had (have, somewhere?) a mushroom shaped one that I loved playing with!
Made an i-cord maker out of three thrifted latch hooks separated from their handle and some thermo plastic for a handle. Works great. Much quicker than a knitting Nancy and more reliable than a cranked mechanical cord maker.
Whenever I make my own rope like object out of yarn, I use it as a belt. It's hot here in NC in the summer and it's great to go around my kaftans
I fooled with this a little bit when I was in grades school. I honestly don't remember who introduced me to it but it may have been as part of my Campfire Girls group learning different crafts. Mine was homemade (never heard a name for it) using a used up wooden thread spool with finishing nails hammered into the top. Used variegated crochet thread so the resulting cord was loose and lacy, but I never knew what to do with the results so to see the vintage directions is an eye opener. I still have that first and probably only long cord, in with some odds and ends of jewelry and am racking my brain as to what I used it for - I'm thinking maybe a belt. It was the 60's so a lot of loose dresses that could benefit from a narrow belt tied round. Thanks for this!
I also have two Strickliesel from my childhood. 😍One is passed down from my mother probably from the 60s and one from my childhood from the 80/90s
I've used that as a child! In The Netherlands we call it "punniken". I've also seen people use 4 needles on the CSM and the heel spring to make an i-cord. Maybe you can do that if you like to make some of the other patterns and don't want to take such a long time!
I never had one, but I remember using 4 fingers and making chuncky icord going down the back of your hand. Made meters upon meters in all sorts of yarn and material.
Lovely project! Also, I really like your green top that you wore at the start, and your cake patterns!
I remember as kids, we would make the “knitting Nancy” (I didn’t know what it was called as a kid, but some stores sell it as a French knitter or knitting bee) out of a toilet paper roll and pop-sticks 😂 I never knew what to make out of the cord but I guess the kids just need a distraction
I didn’t have a posh one like yours, mine was a wooden cotton reel with Nails in, when I was I child.
I have that exact same Strickliesel from when I was a child in the 90s omg
We made cord like that back in the 60s using a wooden thread spool with little nails in it. And my little sister got a Little Red Spinning Wheel toy for Christmas one year that did the same thing. I found The Knitting Doll kit at Hobby Lobby in their repro antique toy section. The back of the box has the year 2010. It comes with various colored wool yarn & a wooden needle. I hope I can get my granddaughter to try it!
Omg talk about timing, I literally bought one of these this weekend
My mom had one of those, but I mostly use my Lucet. I find the two prongs make a nice tight cord with just a bit of squish that is my favorite drawstring.
I recently dug out my Knitting Nancy from when I was little in the 1970’s! I had forgotten how useful she can be 🥰
My aisters and I had one of these when we were kids. Thanks for bring me memories!❤
I had something similar when I was a kid but much chunkier. I ended up making a scarf, a hat, attempted slippers, & even made a couple of dolls with it. Now I'm wanting to get one of those i-cord machines so I can make some quickly (I'm far too impatient now to do it manually).
Best toy I was given about 45 years ago. Still use it regularly, two half circles joined together to make a small purse is one of my favourites to make.
I remember my wooden spool with nails. Made a small rug. Sister made a trivet which melted cause it was acrylic yarn.
Some intriguing possible projects! I'm currently trying to stash-bust and have been using my mother's childhood spool knitter to make a length of cord. I want to try knitting with the resulting cord on big needles!
I had one when I was young.
If you want to cheat and make icord faster you can get a handheld machine from Prym or you can make it on a flat bed knitting machine, it’s called tube knitting, it only uses a single bed and a few needles - very quick!
Call me weird, but as a child i had a lot of fun with the Stricklisel and it brought me into knitting. But i never realized that you could also do flat pieces with it!
I know it's not the point of the video, but what a beautiful cake! I love the pattern right in the sponge itself.
This is called a Strikkelise in Norwegian as well. My grandmother is called Lise, and I am fairly certain she gave me mine. I love how you found different patterns for it and that would definitely have been encouraging for a child learning to use it.
In Norway we also call it a "Strikke-Lise". At least that is what I'm told. I have a plain one lying around somewhere. I like learning about the history of such things.
started making cord many years ago , i crochet it into a floor mat
I used one to transform some super rough wool yarn into the best little bedside rug. It's about 20 years old and still wonderfully warm on a cold morning!
I love tangible memories like that. ❤
Very nice! ❤
what a lovely project! seems like so much work though to make this, though 😂 but sometimes you just gotta do projects like this, I guess 💞
btw, I NEED the recipes for your cakes and instructions on how to make them look like that?!!! they're so cuuuute!
When I was a child my grandfather would carve canes to make me knitting Nancies (in Italian it’s called Caterinetta)
I love this!
So, I should get mine out is what you are saying
I heard you talk about the Strickliesl in another video, and asked my mom if I could have the one my grandma had, for my son. 😊 You are a good inspiration, now even for my son. 😂
we always called it a knitting-knobby... although now i wonder if we had heard the term niddy-noddy and gotten confused...
I called mine a “knitty-noddy,” like the catalogs called them, or “knitting mushrooms,” since they were styled like mushrooms rather than dolls.
Fun!
It’s funny how close the naming of this toy is.
In Danish it’s called “Strikke Lise”
I remember making clothes for my Barbies. Socks, scarfs, and other funny things.
Years ago I found a book in things to make with the product. I remember being impressed as a kid I just rolled it into a ball and kept going. I wonder what ever happened to all of that
Folks have been engineering devices to work speedy icord. They devise a tool with 3 or 4 latchhook type machine type knitting needles. (It's not possible to paste a photo into a Comment, but youTube has several of these.)
The tool does an entire round with each knittiwordsmith.
They're calling it the cordsmith.
In french we call it tricotin and it is the same name for the I Cord , I knit I Cord with 2 DPN's now, so much faster..... I've never seen a cake like yours....Crossing between colorwork knitting and baking? Looks absolutely amazing!
Sometimes it is a stess reliever to do something rather mindless. You coukd do this anywhere, any time. Easy to transport. i have a lucet...which i understand you can make different patterns with..i have not tried THAT but it is fun to use. And OF COURSE you can get fancy, expensive ones of these with handles that crank...it is more like a circular knitting machine. i like the old way BUT IF you are in a hurry or making lots to sell...the crank ones woukld serve a purpose.
How do you keep that together? You formed the trivet but how do you keep it in one piece? Sewing all along the spiral? Or ..?
Not to challenge you, but a little Nutella-sized hammock would be mega-cute :D
Once, I spent hours and hours tying embroidery floss around my head phone cords (friendship bracelet style) to keep them from tangling so much, which worked pretty well. But then I saw the jump rope pattern... shoot! That might've been faster, lol.
Off topic but could you do a video on the cakes you made, the knitting was a cute little project. ❤
2:55 somewhere along the line it was suggested that a Roman dodecahedron could be used for spool knitting, but anyone who has tried it says it's really not optimal. The process or the result. Besides that, the Roman dodecahedron originates from the 2nd century, with knitting not being evident until the 11th century, and spool/loom knitting not appearing until the 15th century.
I still make hot pads with mine. They are the best and never wear out.
That looks fairly tedious! Interesting video!
We used to call those knitting dollies.
In the very late 70s or very early 80s, I had a plastic one, but I was told it was called "corking", and though I made many many snakes in many many colous, I never did anything with them because stitching them int a rug was the only thing anyone ever suggested and I didn't wanna make that much of it, besides what does a 5 year old do with a rug? Thanks for the memories!
There's a cord machine that you can use with a handle that can take maybe 20 minutes.
Mine had a clip on weight to keep the cord flowing from the bottom.
Curious, how did you put it together? By sewing or crocheting?
Можно же на машине связать полотно на 4 петлях нужной длины. Оно будет закручиваться и формировать шнур. Думаю, если использовать рафию или другую твердую нить, то можно получить полосу, которую можно потом сшивать, как шляпы.
I wonder if my cat would like a hammock 🤔😊
The victorian era ended in 1901 but I'm guessing you're more on about the social shift seen from 1900 to 1910, which is just as huge. Have you thought about getting a mechanical icord maker and testing out some of the more ambitious projects? I've been debating using mine to turn scrap yarn into crazy coloured chunky yarn
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It is called a "Strikkelise" in Danish, almost the same as in German.
What a wonderful project and way of incorporating that treasured memory into your life now in such a tangible way. And those cakes looked amazing! Did you use some sort of food coloring on the paper to get the design?
Ohhh can you tell us a little about the green wrap you have on? I tried to make one and, well... it turned my decreases decrease way too little for me to make something that wraps instead of covering my entire torso in two layers!
Î only wish you'd shown how to make it hold in that shape. But it sounds like a good mindless activity that you can then turn into even funner items !
25 yards converts to 75 feet.
I'm curious now if you can use a strickliesel to knit flat web or if you would need a loom made to size.
Ì think you could go back and forth over the four pegs instead of round and round
What's the pattern for the green top you're wearing - it's gorgeous!! :D
What is the lovely white lace blanket or cousin behind you in the opening? Is that one of your patterns?
Hiw did you see it together? I've made a LOT of cord on my lucet from scrap yarn and trying to sew it together into a rug, but not sure my "give it your best guess and hope for the best" method is the best way to go. I haven't been able to find any kind of video instructions for guidance.
What names did you use? The audio was "swallowed" and the Transcript just omits it.
for me, I always took a needle, not crochet. I'm 67
lol I think I was using a finishing nail. My spool had them too