If you have a yarn stash, then these knitted bracelets are a good way to work through it ;-)
Tag: Knitting
Knitted Torc
Until now I’ve seen such torcs only in museums – made from gold and other precious metals ;-)
But knitted everybody can afford them ;-))
Links:
Simple Torc (R3)
English Wikipedia entry for ‘Torc’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Torque’
Knit and Felt a Knot Bracelet
These knit-felted knot bracelets are cute, aren’t they?
I think that you can surely make them with filled I-cords, too, then they are more firm (only take care about what happens to the filling when felting with hot water!). In principle it’s what Sue suggested in her comment.
Or the whole thing may be even possible with a buttoned I-cord bracelet, where the original was made with beads. When using glass buttons or glass beads it should be no problem to felt it (but I haven’t tried it yet).
Possibly you can even use filled and felted I-cords to make a fabric bowl from?!
And when you felt some of the cords of the cute spaghetti scrap scarf it surely looks great, too.
Oof, soo many ideas ;-))
Links:
This Is Knot a Bracelet : A Tutorial to Knit and Felt a Bangle Bracelet
Here at unikatissima:
Actinia – here I put my own instruction on how to make an I-cord in the PDF file
Clothesline Knitting or Filled I-cord
Buttoned I-cord Bracelet
Clothesline Sewing – A Fabric Bowl
Spaghetti Scrap Scarf
Sues comment
Row Counter Bracelet
When knitting or crocheting you must often count the rows.
I have seen people who kept checklists in a very disciplined way, but personally I find this taking-the-pen-and-sketching-a-checkmark-on-the-list bothersome, the more so as one needs a table for this (at least I need it ;-)).
But not if you’re making a row counter bracelet (ok, you must leave your work beside, but you don’t need a table ;-)).
I didn’t make one yet, but I found the tutorial very good.
I’m sure that you can make the beads yourself, e.g. from polymer clay or felt (but felted beads may be too lightweight ?!)
Links:
Row Counter Bracelet
via: Row Counter Bracelet at ravelry
Google search result for ‘row counter bracelet’
Google image search result for ‘row counter bracelet’
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘polymerclay’
Entries with the tag ‘felting’
Knitted/Crocheted Bangles
Recently I wanted to make some knitted napkin rings as a gift and looked for a way to 1. keep their shape and 2. make them washable.
And I really found a solution which is also great for making bangles ;-)): use a core of recycled plastic bottle and a knitted or crocheted all over cover.
That’s what you do:
Cut rings in the desired width from a plastic bottle.
I cut here two rings because the circumference of the bottle was too small for a bangle for me.
Where the rings are to be joined you need an overlap of about 2 cm.
I pricked 3 holes with a pointy needle and threaded the yarn I used later for knitting through them to fix both sides. The big advantage is that you don’t see anything of this later.
Then knit the ‘cover’. I worked with quite thick acrylic yarn and began with a stocking stitch part for the inside whereas outside I used a moss stitch pattern.
Depending on the used yarn the inside diameter can get a good deal narrower, in this case make the plastic rings a little bit larger.
When the cover is finished sew the sides together.
That’s how the finished bangle looks.
Originally I wanted to have the seam at the inside of the bangle but I ‘produced’ always a thick bulged seam. Therefore I knitted the ‘folding line’ between both patterns with purls and sew at the rim (which is much easier, too ;-)).
The bulged seam looks similar to the purled row and now I like it.
The plastic ring core has more advantages (besides the fact that it is cost-saving): the bangle keeps its shape but is flexible so that it doesn’t interfere with writing (usually I don’t wear bangles for just this reason).
What is more I can wash it: That’s how my bangle looks after I machine-washed it at 30°C together with dark(!) cloths.
No problem there ;-)
But this depends strongly from the used yarn.
I used thick acrylic yarn here and find that it looks like a winter bangle, but it can surely be crocheted as well with fine cotton thread or knitted in stocking stitch with variegated sock yarns or simply be wrapped with fun yarns, possibly even be wrapped with a sewn fabric cover…
If you try something like this I would appreciate if you’d link it in the comments!
Have much fun.
plastic bottle bracelet
Buttoned I-cord Bracelet
I found a great instruction on how to make a beaded I-cord.
She knits an I-cord where she works in previously stringed beads.
Because I only had seed beads I simply took some of my buttons and must say that I like the result, also.
My I-cord is a little bit uneven, because the heads of my buttons often got in my way, but I like it nevertheless ;-)
Links:
an anti pattern
Bauble – Knitted Bead Cuff
I found at knitty the instruction for the knitted bead cuff ‘Bauble’ and really liked it.
Therefore I wanted to knit at least a bit to see how it looks.
Because I don’t have any bigger beads at the moment I used some left over paper beads.
But I didn’t manage to knit the bead string at all.
I really must try it again when I’m a little more untroubled because I really find Bauble beautiful!
Here at unikatissima: Paper Beads