Blogger is now working, so I now have pictures. The picture on the left is of my corking spool, made from a very large coffee can, an even number of nails, and tape.
I made it doing something called "corking," also known as spool knitting, and something like a "knitting Nellies." We have a book on it, only I sort of misplaced it. It will undoubtedly turn up when I excavate my part of the room.
I used a large coffee can, and taped 50 (I think) nails around it. You put them on with two touching eachother, and then about an inch or two before the next two, and continue around the can doing that. That is your corker. There are several different sizes, the smallest have eight nails and four rows.
Oh, and it would really work better if you taped paper or something like that around to keep the nails still. They kept on slanting and sliding around.
The picture above is of me wearing my scarf. I think I shall make another one a different colour. It took me a while to make this one, but mostly because I would somtimes forget about it, and leave it for several days at a time. It's not very hard.
DHM Adds: The scarf is wider than it looks; it wants to be round, so it curves in. We still can't find the book Pip used here at the house, but here's a link to a copy of it on Amazon. The technique is also called spool knitting. You can buy the spools from places like hearthsong, Hobby Lobby, and Michael's. You can also make different sizes of spools for different projects. We've made them using the cardboard tubes from toilet paper, too.
I seem to foggily remember doing something like this a long time ago at a homeschool activity-day, but I think I had a small plastic tube with little tines sticking up at intervals on top. Same concept. It seems like it made a knitted tube-- but I have long since forgotten what the tube was for! I hope you can post a pic soon.
ReplyDeleteWe call it corking, too. For gifts for the 14 other girls on her hockey team, Gracie used a really fuzzy red "eyelash" yarn with a thread of gold through it. She left a tail about 6" long, corked 5" or so, and bound off leaving another 6" tail. The result? A very fuzzy, sparkly, festive bracelet that can be tied on to fit the wearer- very cute!
ReplyDeleteYour scarf is lovely. I also like your shirt.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little girl, my grandmother taught me to finger knit and then she taught me to spool knit by taking a large, old spool (when they used to be made out of wood *sigh*) and hammering four nails around the top of the spool. I made a lot of rugs for Barbie this way. ;) I bought one of the knitting mushrooms from Hearthsong for each of my girls a long time ago and they still enjoy them occasionally. I'm glad you reminded me of the large loom I bought them a few years ago and hid away. Another Christmas present! Yay!
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