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On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:47:06 GMT, "Diana Brissenden" spewed forth :

I wouldn't knit a clothespin bag. Knitting stretches, you don't want a stretchy clothespin bag. Make a pair of cutoffs and save the legs. You can use the upper legs as the pouches and make straps from the leftovers. Voila. Clothespin bag. I made one 20-odd years ago, it hasn't come into the house since, and it still works just fine.

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Diana, depending on where you live, I would maybe add to Wooly's great suggestion, that it may be a good idea to have one that it water proof. Where I live, we get a lot of rain. My clothes pegs would be a mess if I left them hanging on the washlin in a cloth bag made of old jeans. The springs gets rusty and the wood swells up etc. (this is from experience) I have my pegs in a plastic bucket that moves in and out the house as needed.

Els

That is cool Wooly!!!!

Dennis

Mirjam,

Hello twin.

I believe Diana means a clothes pin bag. For holding clothes pins that hold clothes on a line.

If I am right any knit bag would work.

We call them clothes pegs. To hang out the washing on the line

Aha you mean a cloths PEG ???? mirjam e>>>

We call them clothes pins down south.

We call them clothes pins in Manitoba too (smile) I have heard of them as "pegs" too.

Shelagh

Mirjam a clothe pin is een knijper....LOL you use it to secure your washing on your wasline outside so it can dry

Els

You got it dear friend.

Dennis

I never heard them called Pins , i do know all the other names , here they are called ATAW ,,,,,[Aleph , Tet, Beth ] [3 Hebrew letter names ]... mirjam

They were also called clothespegs in the North of England where I grew up. They also were not the kind with two separate pieces and a spring to hold them together, rather a single piece of carved wood with a knob on top and two "legs". It was easy to draw a tiny face on the knob, wrap a scrap of cloth around them, and have a clothespeg dolly.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

We call them clothespins.

Higs, Katherine

Yes we did:))))))

That is not the kind we use. Ours have two pieces of wood and a spring. The other ones we buy in craft stores, just for that purpose.

Higs, Katherine

Yes we have the spring clip ones now but mostly made with plastic. I haven't seen the others in the shops for years.

I hate the plastic ones. They break too easily.

Higs, Katherine