…compilation of tutorials
Isn’t this a great idea?
A friend sent me the link to the blog where they knit with several ‘unorthodox’ materials – it’s worth a try, I find ;-)
Perhaps crocheting, too!?
By the way, you can knit with polymer clay, too, but unfortunately I didn’t find back the links except for some photos.
Links:
Knitted Plaster Impregnated Bandage and more (Knitting… not as you know it!)
Photos of knitted polymer clay
Again a scarf from scraps ;-)
But this time it’s not only about scraps nor scarves: It’s about this technique, where you arrange fabric pieces and/or yarns on water-soluble sheet, where you make it ‘unslippable’ by spraying it with fabric glue where necessary, where you cover it with water-soluble sheet again and then sew more or less wildly in all directions to connect all elements with each other.
After rinsing it (thoroughly!) you get a more or less delicate fabric that you can use as scarf like on the photo, but you can also make a top top top or a one-of-a-kind vest one-of-a-kind vest poncho from.
There is even a book that shows how you can mix this technique with felting.
I really must do this once ;-)
Here at unikatissima:
There are people who knit socks (I am not one of them ;-)) and they can probably do with an extra foot ;-)
And cut always veeery careful…
;-)
Links:
Duct Tape Foot Tutorial
Isn’t this simply elegant? ;-)
I liked the knitting patterns from the (appr.) 1940’s, it’s such a different style from today.
Anyhow I wont knit none of them – I would never be able to finish one of them ;-))
What I found funny: there is an instruction for a bedsock (search for ‘Spiral Bedsocks’), exactly like the Sock without Heel I presented before.
Links:
1940’s Knitting Patterns (Vintage Purls – Women’s Patterns)
Here at unikatissima: Sock without Heel
I found a blog where the author fetched the cross stitch patterns of an old aunt from the attic and published them.
I saw beautiful patterns thereby and it’s not as if you had to work cross stitch only with the patterns ;-)
The blog is written in Netherlands and English (the italic text), but the patterns can be recognized anyhow ;-))
Links:
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures (Tantes zolder) (Netherlands and English)
Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
I was thinking about how to make beautiful curvatures from knitted cables when I found the instruction shortly afterwards :)
On the photos you can see my try – so it works ;-))
I’m curious about what kind of Celtic Knots I will be able to make now ;-))
Links:
Cabled ‘O’ (A new technique for starting closed cables)
Here at unikatissima: Designing a Celtic Knot
I find patchwork knitting somehow fascinating, now I found a photo album of sweaters and the like made in patchwork knitting photo album of sweaters and the like made in patchwork knitting, that really thrills me: they are so different and I find every piece interesting.
I think that they are very good arguments for patchwork knitting ;-)
There is even a sweater where the ‘middle’ of the patchwork square is a braid sweater where the ‘middle’ of the patchwork square is a braid, I have never seen this before.
Links:
Marion’s Picasa Web Album
The original site doesn’t exist any more, but I there are photos of Marion’s sweaters and the like made in patchwork knitting somewhere else.
via: Patchwork stricken und mehr (German)
Here at unikatissima concerning ‘patchwork knitting’:
Patchwork Knitting
Module Sock
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
Again something to use up your stash: the Spaghetti scrap scarf.
In fact it is nothing else than a lot of I-cords that are connected in different ways.
And I find that it looks great! ;-)
There is another Spaghetti scrap scarf, but you can best see how different they can look when checking the ravelry pattern (unfortunately with registering only).
I have already begun to knit I-cords but unfortunately I find it nothing but boring, so I doubt that I will ever make such a Spaghetti scrap scarf.
But who knows? ;-)
Links:
Spaghetti scrap scarf ‘recipe’ (Qui aime la pasta?) (French)
Another Spaghetti scrap scarf (Encore une écharpe avec des i-cords) (French)
First found at ravelry:
Spaghetti scrap scarf (with i-cords)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘stash’
I noticed it but yesterday: Saturday is WWKiP Day 2009 again, the day when people knit together in public.
Originally it was meant to bring together knitters from a region, because who knows who else is knitting in their immediate surroundings?
Then many participate to show that knitting is not only for ‘old women’, but really for everybody.
Take a quick look at the official website to see whether there’s a meeting in your surroundings, too and then have fun on Saturday!
