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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Cathy will be doing this class in July.  So watch for the announcement  and 
then sign up for the class!
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 6/12/2012 11:57:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sahar at inebraska.com writes:

Wow,  that does sound neat.  I've been wanting to try something different,  
other than what I've been doing for the last thirteen years, and that could 
be  it, but I have to know more.  Oh, and there is that part about being  
brave and trying something new.  *grin*

Warm regards,
Sahar  Husseini
For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, please visit my Website  at
www.saharscreations.com
Find me on Facebook at  www.facebook.com/saharscreations
And remember, "Obstacles don't have to  stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure  out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael  Jordan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "nancy yeager"  <nancyyeager542 at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and  artists'" 
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Sent: Sunday, June 03,  2012 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting a fine wire  necklace with the 
wonder knitter


I have to try this.  Did you  find your Wonder Knitter locally or order it
on-line?  I realize I'm a  Nancy-come-lately to all this loom stuff as I
hadn't gotten really excited  about them until all of the recent talk in 
this
group about making flowers  and now your necklace.   

-----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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