Working with odd materials...

Yet again the newbie is here to ask some questions. :-) Hope you all don't
mind.
I saw on a knitting show today about knitting with plastic grocery bags. The
end result was so neat and I loved the idea. But that got me thinking about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?

Valerie

Welcome Valerie ....
ropes , rags, telephone wires , shoe laces , silver threads , soft
grape vines ,,,,,knitted it crocheted wove and coiled ,,,,if it is
soft enough ......
mirjam
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:14:17 -0400, "Valerie"
wrote:

Yet again the newbie is here to ask some questions. :-) Hope you all don't
mind.
I saw on a knitting show today about knitting with plastic grocery bags. The
end result was so neat and I loved the idea. But that got me thinking about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?

Valerie

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Valerie wrote:

But that got me thinking about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?


Good question! For me it's strawberry bootlaces. A friend of mine was
having a birthday party with a theme of 'bad taste' so I made her the
edible knickers from Knitty
(http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer04/PATT302calories.html). Actually, the
bootlaces made quite a nice looking fabric.

--
Kirsten Procter ghoti
Current projects; 2 blankets, various gifts

"Kirsten Procter" skrev i melding
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In article ,
Valerie wrote:

Good question! For me it's strawberry bootlaces. A friend of mine was
having a birthday party with a theme of 'bad taste' so I made her the
edible knickers from Knitty
(http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer04/PATT302calories.html). Actually, the
bootlaces made quite a nice looking fabric.

LOL! And NO bad taste as far as I know!!!
AUD ;-))

"Valerie" skrev i melding
news
Yet again the newbie is here to ask some questions. :-) Hope you all
don't
mind.
I saw on a knitting show today about knitting with plastic grocery
bags. The
end result was so neat and I loved the idea. But that got me thinking
about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question
is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?

Valerie

I have woven and crocheted with different types of fishing yarn, thin,
thick modern and very oldfashioned and smeared with tar.I have used
"plummer fiber" and
"something" we can find on trees http://tinyurl.com/54qhe and
http://tinyurl.com/3q43u
don't know what it is in english.I have used bath chain(??) in the sink
he http://www.touristphoto.no/images/lo...bles/los24.jpg.
I have picked beautiful small stones at the beaches otf the westcoast of
Ireland, glued small "eyes" or hooks on them (from silver threads,LOL!)
so I was able to weave them into a project I worked with.(Irish beads,
you know :-)
I have not used any of these in knitting, but I am sure the most of it
will work out for decorative effects, or to give it a special
expression.
May be we should give eachother a little challenge for the first project
in 2005: Use odd materials and make odd or special products, woven,
knitted, crocheted or whatever?? Then present them here with a picture?
Just a "flying" thought!
AUD ;-))

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"something" we can find on trees http://tinyurl.com/54qhe and
http://tinyurl.com/3q43u
THE LAST ONE IS WRONG: Try this: http://tinyurl.com/6kbr2
Aud;-))

In article , "Valerie"
wrote:

Yet again the newbie is here to ask some questions. :-) Hope you all don't
mind.
I saw on a knitting show today about knitting with plastic grocery bags. The
end result was so neat and I loved the idea. But that got me thinking about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?

Valerie

Valerie a great question. I have worked with recycled T-shirts from our
three kids and put them "under foot" so to say. I cut all the shirts in
to strips, set up a warp on my loom, and weave chenille strips. These are
cut apart after weaving and then rewoven into a rug.....It lasts and lasts
and lasts. This neat pile rug lays on the floor in our bathroom. The
kids are finally listening to us....LOL

With the same strips you can knit as well. I have made several very good
hot pot trivets and they last as well

Els

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Valerie wrote in :

Yet again the newbie is here to ask some questions. :-) Hope you all don't
mind.
I saw on a knitting show today about knitting with plastic grocery bags.
The end result was so neat and I loved the idea. But that got me thinking
about knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My
question is, is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you
knitted or crocheted with before?

I know someone who uses old pairs of tights for making rugs. She cuts the
legs in a spiral (does that make sense: she starts at the toe, and cuts
a strip about 0.5 inches wide as if circling the leg). I've seen several
different styles: sometimes you crotchets the whole thing, sometimes she
makes a mesh, and weaves the tights in.

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three

here in U.S.A. we call it spanish moss that grows in the trees.Stella
"Aud" wrote in message
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"Kirsten Procter" skrev i melding
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In article ,
Valerie wrote:

Good question! For me it's strawberry bootlaces. A friend of mine was
having a birthday party with a theme of 'bad taste' so I made her the
edible knickers from Knitty
(http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer04/PATT302calories.html). Actually, the
bootlaces made quite a nice looking fabric.

LOL! And NO bad taste as far as I know!!!
AUD ;-))

:-O Wow...that's all I can say. I didn't even know you could do that!

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In article ,
Valerie wrote:

But that got me thinking about
knitting with things other than yarn and the usual things. My question
is,
is what fiber/thread/whatever that isn't "usual" have you knitted or
crocheted with before?


Good question! For me it's strawberry bootlaces. A friend of mine was
having a birthday party with a theme of 'bad taste' so I made her the
edible knickers from Knitty
(http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer04/PATT302calories.html). Actually, the
bootlaces made quite a nice looking fabric.

--
Kirsten Procter ghoti
Current projects; 2 blankets, various gifts