Raiiinboooww Baaaaands

[kerravonsen]

Today I finished off a couple of WIPs I was doing on knitting spools with rainbow-bands.

Cord: rainbow bands (black, white); spool knit cable twist


Blue and green bracelet; rainbow-bands; spool knit cable twist.

Both of them use a technique I devised, which I'm calling "spool knit cable twist". This is because it uses the simple one-stitch cable - swapping two stitches over - to make a spiral in one colour going up the cord, with the background being the other colour. Of course, one could do the whole thing in one colour, but it wouldn't look so dramatic then.

Comments

[capri0mni]

Clever and beautiful!

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That is very interesting in process and following the movement of the colours on the finished product! The clasp on the bracelet is intriguing. I've never seen one like that. (Good luck with the clearing-the-dining-table project.)

[kerravonsen]

The clasp on the bracelet is intriguing. I've never seen one like that.

That's because it isn't a clasp as such: it's two magnets (strong ones), bought from an office supplies shop! (grin)
I bought them because they seemed to have great clasp-making potential, but this is the first time I've actually used them as such. I couldn't figure out a good way (before now) of attaching them to the item needing a clasp. I think it's partly because I haven't tried very much, because magnet clasps are best for bracelets, and I don't make bracelets very often. Also because I was caught up in thinking that the clasp needed to be in line with the thing it was attached to, but I realized this time that it's okay with a bracelet if the clasp is at a 90 degree angle to the bracelet, because the whole thing is round when it's closed, if you see what I mean.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the blue-green one!

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so cool, such a great idea! And it wouldn't matter how the two sides of the clasp sat when the bracelet was stored flat, only how it looked on, when it was closed. Of course, it could be stored closed, too.

[delphipsmith]

Mm, lovely!

[kerravonsen]

8-)