I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

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.

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.

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 )

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)

September, necklace, and more loom knitting. (And recovering from surgery)
( pictures and descriptions )