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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 325528, member: 5833&quot;]Or darn mushroom.&nbsp; Could you give us an idea of size?&nbsp; Wondering if you would have wrapped what needed mending over &amp; under edges, then held the whole business in the palm of one hand, securing it by holding the cork between 2 fingers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Had that thought for a moment too, but cork looks unpunctured?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a kid, I loved it that my mother had a little dried gourd for this purpose.&nbsp; That, the chunk of beeswax used to make working with very heavy thread easier, &amp; the little gizmo that could run around the floor my dad taught me how to make* (from an empty spool, a rubber band, a metal washer, 1 whole toothpick &amp; part of another), were the only sewing-related things that interested me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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