On 18/05/2011 18:11, Helen Bell wrote:
Nope - mine stay in real cork too. In fact my best pricker has lasted in it's cork from Australia, 16+ years in the low humidity of Colorado, and is still in the same cork in WA. But if memory serves me right - it's in a champagne cork, not a wine one. It's real, dinky di cork, not the plastic cork you sometimes get now in wine bottles.
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Mine just have pieces of cork, and it's real cork from a real champagne bottle; I can't remember how many years I've had it, but I suspect it may be about as long as Helen's had hers too.
Do you suppose there's something special about the kind of cork used for champagne bottles? Fizzy wine must put the cork under a lot of pressure, so maybe it has a greater quality of expanding and so gripping? Certainly my cork point-covers don't tend to slide off, as is the way with the bits of plastic foam that points tend to have when I buy them, and it's a lot less trouble for my arthritic fingers to pull off than those little pieces of plastic tubing. I have pieces of champagne cork covering my crochet hook, pricker, fine scissors, and two large pins, (that are too tall to stand up in my pin cushion), and all stay in place. Although I must admit that Vicki's 'clutches' look more decorative.
For storage, I just put them in a very pretty little zipped make-up bag. It's only fabric, but the cork makes it safe.
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