Knit your noodles with free needles
February 14, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, knitting
My dear friend, Arlee, is a FABULOUS teacher (and wonderful person).
She started a knitting club at her school, and has 46 kids knitting up a storm.
We were chatting the other evening, and she said:
‘Oooh… getting knitting needles for all those kids is expensive !’
And I responded: ‘Why not MAKE them knitting needles? !’ (I love ‘GREEN’ eco friendly/recycling projects)
Just take a set of used, clean chopsticks, some beads and a nail file….
Wash the chopsticks. File any rough spots on the chopsticks, and shape the ends into a softly rounded point:
Glue (or wedge firmly) the beads onto the blunt ends:
And – Voila! you’ve got a fine set of cheap and cheerful, excellent knitting needles that you can knit your noodles with!
And, you have kept them out of the landfill! Yay!
I used these knitting needles to knit the world’s easiest teddy bear:
This would work with new chopsticks too, if you don’t have enough used ones around.
Indeed it does, Karen. And, you could use plastic chopsticks as well as wooden ones.
My kids all save their chopsticks for me instead of tossing them – I use them in all kinds of ways in the studio….