Spool Knitting with Wire Video Tutorial
April 21, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under eco projects & green projects & recycling craft, jewelry, spool knitter & spoolknitter, spool knitting and spoolknitting, tutorial
Happy Almost Earth Day!
I hope you have had a wonderful day that included lots of lovely green living
and eco projects, and that you are going to do something special for Earth Day tomorrow.
We are going to plant some baby trees. That’s them in the pic to the right.
The Spool knitter is one that I made from a chunk of old wood that we found in Jim’s Dad’s workshop 10 or so years ago. Jim’s Dad was a champion recycler.
He would upcycle stuff in the neatest ways…. nothing much got thrown away around Mum and Dad’s house. If it could be …read more
Spool Knitting with wire prep for tute
April 21, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under jewelry, spool knitter & spoolknitter, spool knitting and spoolknitting
Today, I was asked a question about working with copper wire.
The questioner had just gotten a fab deal on 24 gauge copper wire and snapped it up.
When she experimented with crocheting it, she found it to be not very pleasant to work with. 24 gauge is pretty energized, and fairly stiff.
Crocheting with it is mighty tough on the tendons.
She had seen that someone else had asked me to make them sturdy spool knitters for spool knitting wire and wondered if the 24 gauge could be spool knitted.
Why would you spool knit wire?
Because you can make absolutely gorgeous jewelry with it! …read more
