Photos from Tortoise Crafts's post
So, this morning I was creating a peg wreath & I happened to say to Laura 'what do you think my next rambling should be about?'
The answer was clothes pegs.....so, this post is Laura's fault 😃 off my brain rambled.
I still use good old fashioned wooden clothes pegs to hang my washing up, I like the look and feel of them. I know people say they leave 'dirty' makes on the washing but I have a few tips to stop that. When I buy new ones to use on my laundry, I put them in a bucket of cold water for a few hours, then I peg them on the line to properly dry. All the colour has leached out of them. If it does happen to rain and the pegs (or the bucket they live in) gets wet, then I spread them out and air dry them. Doing both of these things means I don't get dirty marks from my pegs!
So, I use pegs for my laundry - I have some lovely ones with ladybirds on that I got 20 years ago for Laura to use when helping peg out the washing to make it more fun!
But pegs are used for lots of things, miniature ones (from my niece's wedding) are used to hold a postcard to the front of my plastic template box on the shelf above my sewing machine.
Then I use them for yarn, these allow me to match yarn & colours, they are brilliantly portable.
I use pegs to hold bits together, before we had Clover wonderpegs I used them for holding borders & when box making. And off course there is wreath making!
They are very useful!!!
But when did the original dolly peg (& yes I have some in my craft drawer, waiting to be turned into .....dollies!) morph into the clothes peg of today.
David M. Smith of Vermont patented the wooden spring peg, we know, in 1853 at the US patent office, interestingly that office had over a 100 patents for clothes pegs between 1852 & 1887!!! Who knew the simple peg could have so many different types! 😃
Enough rambling around wooden clothes pegs, got other things to do.... ... See more
