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 Have you ever sat and thought about the different crafts you did as a child that are dying out? On a recent visit to a craft group, I started thinking about different crafts we did as kids. All that came to mind was embroidery, knitting, and then I remembered that we made cushions from old hessian bags. Trying to remember how we did it was the problem.  I had been given an implement years ago and was still not sure how it worked. This was the implement So then I found some hessian and a collection of wool I still had no idea but found a simple picture of a pot plant with a flower in it.  Then the penny dropped. I threaded that thingy above with a strand of wool. Ten started poking it through the hessian, and that is all you do.  The back form loops, and as kids, that was the side we used on the outside of our cushions.  Every loop had to be cut. And yes, we cut them, because mum used to check our work. This was the side where you pushed the thingy through the h...