Watch the candy aisle in your store. My favorite crochet hook and other tool
storage is a plastic tube about an inch wide with an attached snap-on lid that
came filled with miniature M&M Candy. I got mine several years ago but I
recently saw some in a store so they are out again. Scissors wo
A small piece of the wine cork may not work but the whole wine cork does
especially if you get the kind that have a flat top that stands upright, I
have successfully kept my pricker in one for years now ( good excuse to
drink the wine too)
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Another thing that will work for the pricker and the crochet hooks: a plastic
toothbrush case. At places where they sell little plastic bottles and jars
for travelers, there are also long narrow boxes for keeping your toothbrush
clean in the suitcase. They are long enough for most prickers and cr
I use the little findings that go on the end of a jewelry stick pin.
They come in bags of 10 or more and are very inexpensive. I found mine
in a bead shop. When googling, I found they are called 'clutches'. You
can see what they look like here:
http://www.shipwreckbeads.com/catalog/Findings
Hi Malvary and everyone
To add to the ideas so far -
Bodge idea: Put the pricking tool with the styro or cork bit on its
end, into a spare envelope, fold the envelope around it and secure
with an elastic band.
More elegant: Tie a sturdy hanky around the tool + cork.
More elaborate: This idea requi
In message , Malvary Cole
writes
With all the good suggestions for covering the points of scissors, does
anyone have a good idea for covering the end of a pricker that lives in the
lacemakers tool bag.
I find the plastic sleeving that is used on the individual wires in
telephone and computer
So am I the only one that finds my pricker does not fall out of a real
cork (mind you it is a full cork)
Sue in EY
On 18 May 2011, at 13:26, Malvary Cole wrote:
With all the good suggestions for covering the points of scissors,
does anyone have a good idea for covering the end of a prick
..
Another good idea for the protection of scissor points is to cut a
short length of that green oxygen tubing (or get some kind nurse in
Emergency to do it for you). It slips neatly over the points and stays
there.
David in Ballarat
David,
I use that
With all the good suggestions for covering the points of scissors, does
anyone have a good idea for covering the end of a pricker that lives in the
lacemakers tool bag.
While I was in UK and Spain, the little piece of styrofoam on the end of the
pricker of Jacquie, kept coming off. We had a b
Liz,
Those needle covers, - if they are anything like the Aussie ones, - are good
for protecting the points of fine embroidery scissors! A friend had a
diabetic dog, and had to give him injections, and saved the covers and gave
us all some, and I use them especially on the Stork scissors! They fi
On 18 May 2011, at 04:29, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote:
> Sorry, everyone, that should have gone to the lace Chat list.
Not necessarily because it was about protecting the ends of scissors - which we
all use for every type of lace.
Brenda in Allhallows
www.brendapaternoster.co.uk
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Sorry, everyone, that should have gone to the lace Chat list.
Regards from Liz in Melbourne
lizl...@bigpond.com
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"Thankfully I had to fill my own syringes and those needle covers were much
easier to remove." ..
Those needle covers, - if they are anything like the Aussie ones, - are good
for protecting the points of fine embroidery scissors! A friend had a
diabetic dog, and had to give him injections, and sa
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