kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
Today I finished off a couple of WIPs I was doing on knitting spools with rainbow-bands.
cord-2015-08-29
Cord: rainbow bands (black, white); spool knit cable twist

bracelet_blue_green-20150829
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.
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
Excuse me if you've seen these before, but I think I forgot to post them at the time. This is a bunch of craft I made earlier this year, mostly in January.

cut for lots of thumbnails )
kerravonsen: Eighth Doctor's legs sticking out from underneath TARDIS console: "tea, tools, Tinkering" (tinkering)
Feedback, more materials and additional tools have forged the next set of small-gauge knitting spools.
Spool 8 )
Spool 9 )
Spool 10 )
Spools Next To Each Other )
Light-Tent )

Now I have to figure out what to do with the not-so-good spools that I don't want to use any more. Throw them out? They're too crappy to give away - the pins are too uneven, even with the best ones. But it feels wasteful to throw them out.
kerravonsen: Sam Carter, red desert, moon: Another day, Another planet (Carter-another-planet)
At the request of [personal profile] fred_mouse I am posting a picture of the most recent knitting spools with a scale comparison, to wit, two rulers next to them. The rulers are in both centimetres and inches, so hopefully that makes things clear.

spooooools )
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
Armed with the information gathered in previous efforts, as well as additional materials, I continued on in the search for the desired small small-gauge knitting spool.

spool 4 )
spool 5 )
spool 6 )
spool 7 )
kerravonsen: Vila, worried, Avon, both looking off to the right: "We're lost, aren't we?" (lost)
If one wishes to use paper clips for wire-work that involves bending or un-bending said paper clips, do not use "non-slip" paper-clips: as soon as you bend them, they break. Presumably because the extra stuff they do to make them non-slip work-hardens the wire to such an extent that it is brittle.

Oh well. Now I know.
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
One of the frustrating things about knitting spools is that if one wants something that does more than four stitches per row, all that one can find to buy are these plastic things with thick pegs that are spaced wide apart; which is all very well if one only uses chunky yarn, or is happy with loose lacy stitches. It's absolutely no good if one wants to make a tube from lace-weight yarn with small enough holes so that one can put beads down the middle without them falling out. Which I do.

So over the last little while, I've been looking at tutorials for DIY knitting spools. Of course, most of them are flimsy crap - toilet rolls with popsicle sticks, crudely cut out drink bottles - or require skills or items which I don't have and can't get, such as wooden thread spools. However, there have been some that looked like they had potential. So today I tried a few of them.
Spool 1 )
Spool 2 )
Spool 3 )
So... I still don't have the Ideal Knitting Spool that I am seeking. (sigh)
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
The start of December, I finished off a number of half-done projects so that I could contribute to the "Creating A Welcome" craft market which was raising money for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which had been pointed out to me by [livejournal.com profile] reynardo which we had both intended to make gifts for, but other things happened... so I was making gifts at the start of December. December was also the month of last-minute gifts and of one more fan fest.
pictures and descriptions )
So that was a year full of craft! I'd forgotten the huge amount I'd done, not just when I was off work, but all through the year. So that's good - I have Accomplished!
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
September, necklace, and more loom knitting. (And recovering from surgery)
pictures and descriptions )
kerravonsen: Crafty: a medly of beads (craft)
August was the month of maille, crochet and spool-knitting.
pictures and descriptions )

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