What I did with Santa's gifts - part 1
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Well, as you know, Santa brought me some lovely yarn.
Attachment 63123 When yarn is in a skein it can get tangled while you knit with it, so the first thing to do is put it on a swift: Attachment 63124 and wind it using a ball winder: Attachment 63125 into a neat ball ready for the next step. Attachment 63126 |
It's good to have the right tools.
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You have neat balls. :blush:
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I also like Limey's balls.
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I love that colour!
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Here we have some more tools. The beads are in my grandfather's old inkwell (ideal to prevent accidental spillage). And the world's teeniest crochet hook. I don't crochet but it is the perfect thing for adding beads to knitting as you go. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...17e8eaffab.jpg
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And here we have some beads knitted into the knitting. I shall have to work out how to show you the process. It's a little fiddly even without trying to take photographs! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...cf898d617b.jpg
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Wow, that looks tedious. Not something that you can add to multitasking. :headshake
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Ehrmagerd, beards!
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limey, I'm delighted to see you making such beautiful things with the materials I gave you. It makes me happy. I wish you could visit the shop where I got the stuff (the fibers, that is. The music shop is not nearly as impressive but just as local and independent.) The proprietor told me she'd dyed that skein herself very recently. I doubt there's a freshness value to it but I did like the fact that she'd done it. I like meeting the makers, the builders, the artists.
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It looks like you push a bight through the bead and then carry on knitting/purling (just words I parrot without knowledge), instead of threading the yarn through the bead like pearl on a necklace. That makes sense to me since where would you start with the threading?? At the beginning and then keep pushing them up toward the ball until you need just one? That doesn't seem workable. Anyhow, I look forward to more pics of your work in progress. I love progress pics! |
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Your bupkis assessment is about right. I use the teeny crochet hook to pull the “bight” (that’s a nice nautical term! We knitters say “stitch”) through the bead. Yes, some knitters thread all the beads on the yarn before they start knitting but I’ve NEVAH been able to get my head round that ... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
Here are a couple more progress pics. You can begin to see the pattern emerging. And the beads are nicer than they look in the pic - a sort of matt iridescent blue and pink. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f762d51c40.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c0fce178bb.jpg
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