Bobbin or Darning Needle?

[HertzvanRental]

Darning Egg.
Neither right. These are darning needles
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My Mum called these Bodkins.

Oh, and the wooden jobby is a darning mushroom.

 

[Pedalabitslower]

A bodkin has a large eye and is used to draw tape or elastic through a hem or waistband. The wooden object is a darning mushroom. You put the mushroom in the sock to stretch out the area that needed darned. The repair was done with a darning needle and wool.

 

[alicat]

My Mum called these Bodkins.

And I still do. Not that I am your mother @HertzvanRental, she says hastily.

 

[classic33]

My Mum called these Bodkins.

Oh, and the wooden jobby is a darning mushroom.

A bodkin has a large eye and is used to draw tape or elastic through a hem or waistband. The wooden object is a darning mushroom. You put the mushroom in the sock to stretch out the area that needed darned. The repair was done with a darning needle and wool.

And I still do. Not that I am your mother @HertzvanRental, she says hastily.

So "odd bodkins", are they a mismatched set, or odd simply because they look are different in some way to what you've used before?

 

[accountantpete]

It's an early darning mushroom.

Later ones had a hollow handle which screwed into the head and the hollow bit held needles. Then someone came up with a bakelite darning mushroom with a bulb inside the head and batteries in the handle for use on long dark winter nights.

 

[jefmcg]

When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?

 

[numbnuts]

My Mum had one like this

 

[HertzvanRental]

And I still do. Not that I am your mother @HertzvanRental, she says hastily.

My loss, fair lady, I'm sure!!

 

[MossCommuter]

Darning needles? Socks?

When I were a lad we walked 15 miles to school with ground glass in us clogs.