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Is knitting a thing of the past?

gas112 said:
First 2 years at our senior school everyone boys and girls had to do these mixed into 2 half days a week .
Cookery /home economics/ needlework/ metalwork/woodwork/ pottery/ art/ technology
Then in year 3 you had your options and dropped to 4 with these added to the list ...tech drawing/ motor mechanic / bricklaying and design technology were we would make canoes out of fibre class amongst other stuff .
Final 2 years it dropped to 2.
We had quite a few girls do woodwork for the 5 years . either sex could do any of those they chose so quite a few guys done the cookery right through and knew a couple that ended up as chefs
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My secondary school was an all boys school. In the last two years we could choose a craft option out of woodwork, metalwork, pottery or motor mechanics.
 
one of the best jobs we had on the gas board was changing the cookers in all the classrooms throughout the county .
Cookers would come out fully built on the lorry . so a fitter and a driver . Eight to ten cookers to change great if you got them all in one school but if it was more they would be in the same town . finished by lunchtime
 
We did either judo or boxing at our school. Wrestling was considered a bit girly.
 
I recall one winter I was really glad I was an advanced knitter. I had a 35 metre tower to climb and the weather was freezing. I knitted myself an amazing scarf and balaclava and wore it with pride. As I took the first few steps I didn’t realise that my scarf had caught onto the girder and it tore it. By the time I reached the top my scarf resembled a small handkerchief. However my balaclava held up perfectly well.
 
Highway Man said:
I recall one winter I was really glad I was an advanced knitter. I had a 35 metre tower to climb and the weather was freezing. I knitted myself an amazing scarf and balaclava and wore it with pride. As I took the first few steps I didn’t realise that my scarf had caught onto the girder and it tore it. By the time I reached the top my scarf resembled a small handkerchief. However my balaclava held up perfectly well.
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What about the plum cosy?
 
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