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I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small animals that dig deep and fast.) So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches. Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at sets of SPN. Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam. Aaron |
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Thank you AHaron , please put your hat back on your head:::
in what honor do you take it off ??? I read your description of organizing your needles with great interest. mirjam I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small animals that dig deep and fast.) So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches. Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at sets of SPN. Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam. Aaron |
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wrote: I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small animals that dig deep and fast.) So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches. Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at sets of SPN. Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam. Aaron Aaron, I saw a way of storing needles in a knitting store. You cut a long rectangular piece of material and you sew pockets on top of it, with little plasick tubing stuck in each pocket. Line the material first so it is neatly finished. Each pocket will hold a set, or depending on the size of the diameter of the plastic tubing, many needles of the same size. Attach a couple of loops or rings along the top edge of your material and hang it on the wall or roll it up and stand the whole thing in a large container. You can mark the size of the needles at the bottom of each pocket. So you can stop being a Gopher...LOL Els -- Ja for Jazz and cobra loose the rrrrrrrr |
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I was in the Thrift Store the other day and found some really nice woolen
twill material, and a nice old but worn linen table cloth to use as lining. After, I get the design worked out, my needles get a nice set of matching suits with their names embroidered on them : ) I got my wife going on this, and she is a much better sewer than I am and she has a better sewing machine. Aaron "Els van Dam" wrote in message ... In article , wrote: I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small animals that dig deep and fast.) So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches. Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at sets of SPN. Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam. Aaron Aaron, I saw a way of storing needles in a knitting store. You cut a long rectangular piece of material and you sew pockets on top of it, with little plasick tubing stuck in each pocket. Line the material first so it is neatly finished. Each pocket will hold a set, or depending on the size of the diameter of the plastic tubing, many needles of the same size. Attach a couple of loops or rings along the top edge of your material and hang it on the wall or roll it up and stand the whole thing in a large container. You can mark the size of the needles at the bottom of each pocket. So you can stop being a Gopher...LOL Els -- Ja for Jazz and cobra loose the rrrrrrrr |
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