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

[Henrietta Brewer]

Oh, Cathy, that sounds like fun. Beading has entered my mind a lot lately. That is amazing in itself. Dan has been home and back in the hospital and now on I V antibiotics at home.

The good thing is, I learned to give him the I V's myself. But, of course, that and all his other needs right now leaves no time for crafting. But I am sure glad I have Dan and have him at home.
Henrietta
On Jun 3, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Cathy wrote:

> Hello all,
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> Good news to share with all of you.
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> 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.
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> 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!  
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> 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.  
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> 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. 
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> The finished necklace looks like a thick chain of fine wire loops with beads
> in the center along the sides and front.
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> 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!
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> Cathy
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