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

Tue Jun 5 14:21:47 UTC 2012

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-----Original Message-----
From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 9:06 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: FW: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting a fine wire necklace with the wonder knitter

Cathy;
Can you have someone take a picture of the necklace, against a dark background and send it to the group.  Thouse that have some site, like me, I am sure would like to see what this looks like.   

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Annette Carr [mailto:amcarr1 at verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 8:53 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting a fine wire necklace with the wonder knitter

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for the description of how you made your necklace.  Up until now I have had no interest in beading, but you have caught my attention with this.
I am going to have to give this a try.

I do have a question.  What type of tool did you use to lift the wire loops off of the loom?

Thanks,
Annette

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 9:03 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting a fine wire necklace with the wonder knitter

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

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