[Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting a fine wire necklace with the wonder knitter

[Cathy]

Hello all,

 

Good news to share with all of you.

 

I have successfully just completed a necklace of wire and beads using the
wonder knitter. It came out pretty nicely if I say so myself.

 

For those of you who do not know, the wonder knitter is a small loom that is
made of plastic and has a cylindrical shape and a head that allows you to
use three or six pegs to knit with. It is primarily used to make an I-cord,
but I read a pattern describing how to knit with beads and wire and I admit
I was intrigued!  

 

For this project I used about 12-15 yards of 28 gauge silver plaited
artistic wire. This wire is thin and tangles and knots easily, but it is
strong. It was good for this particular project because I needed wire that
would allow me to string seed beads as well as some 4MM mixed shaped beads.
The seed beads were silver while the mixed shaped beads were turquoise.  

 

What I did in a nutshell was to first string my beads onto a wire, (I used
about 100 beads.) then I knit (using the EWrap) with the wire only for six
inches, then began pulling up beads and placing them between the pegs as I
continued to knit. I ended by knitting six inches of only the wire again. my
necklace was long enough to place over my head, so I merely inter-twined the
ends and squeezed them together. no findings needed. 

 

The finished necklace looks like a thick chain of fine wire loops with beads
in the center along the sides and front.

 

This project only took two sittings for me, one to thread the beads onto the
wire and another to knit the necklace. Ok, well it took two  weeks to get up
the courage to try it as well!

 

Cathy