And now for something completely different
I love experimenting with different materials for knitting. On Tuesday I wondered aloud here about knitting with strips of silk and at my knitting group today Jenny said she had knitted with strips of plastic bags and Claire had knitted a bathmat with lengths of old towelling
My new kitchen has unvarnished oak work tops. So I need something to protect the wood but I also want to use only natural materials in there. It was then that the thought occurred to me, I could knit something out of spaghetti. Its organic, flexible enough to knit when cooked and hardens up again when it dries - perfect.
Even well cooked the fiber was very prone to breaking, so I began a new strand for each row. Sticking with the culinary theme I used chopsticks for needles
Everything got into a terrible tangle but that is spaghetti for you, however, by handling carefully I finished the square I needed for my pot stand. It doesn't really matter about all the long ends, I can trim them and as the pasta dries they will stick together - so no sewing in the ends!
What fibers have you tried to knit with?
April fools?!! :D
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ReplyDeleteHaaaaaaa! I love it! So cute!
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Wow, for a moment i fell for it too and its no longer April Food Day!
ReplyDeleteI spun and knitted with steel wool the other day. It spun up pretty well but was prone to breaking. I'd like to get better at knitting with spun metal yarn!
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