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| minh |
Posted - 05/07/2012 : 8:21:33 PM
What is the most exotic or strangest yarn you have knitted with? What did you think of it?
I have knitted with yarn made of corn fiber and yarn made from milk. I made a hat with a merino/possum blend from New Zealand, it was sinfully soft and very warm. I have stainless steel yarn in my stash but haven't tried it yet.
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| robinstephanie |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 10:51:20 PM
These replies are awesome. I can't compete.
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I got bored while in a chinese restaurant and I picked up the chop sticks and tried to knit with the long strands of carrot. I could only do a couple of stitches tho so I suppose that does not count. My 'yarn' kept breaking. Oh and my dinner companions told me to behave myself.
Grand Moogi, you crack me up. I am tempted to try this.
Robinsteph
Different is good. ~Matthew Hoover |
| NastiJ |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 7:34:22 PM
I haven't done it myself (yet), but I've been intrigued by the Knit G-string made from Red Candy Laces since it was first published in Knitty's Summer 2004 issue: http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer04/PATT302calories.html
Nancy J.
"Learning how to knit was a snap.It was learning how to stop that nearly destroyed me." Erma Bombeck |
| ikkivan |
Posted - 05/17/2012 : 12:59:38 PM
Although I can't see doing this myself, I remember seeing instructions in a magazine for knitting or crocheting various types of cooked pasta (spaghetti, linguini, etc.) into shapes to be hardened and painted for jewelry!
Donna, with intentions always bigger than her available time. (OkieDokieKnitter on Ravelry) |
| gael1940 |
Posted - 05/11/2012 : 11:52:30 AM
I was once asked to spin hair from four generations in one family and to knit it into a cap for the christening of the newest addition to the family. I spun it with the addition of some lovely merino and knitted the cap in a lacy vine pattern. |
| grandma tigger |
Posted - 05/10/2012 : 9:29:08 PM
One day when I was a boared teenager (long time ago) I used toothpicks as knitting needles and thread as yarn for a prop in a doll house. Then I took a broken hula hoop and used as a cable needle. And used long sheets of plastic 12 in wide and about 16 ft long I tied several together (used to divide house siding) This made a large lumpy door mat  |
| Grand-moogi |
Posted - 05/09/2012 : 04:37:26 AM
Hey that would be great to use when knitting a jumper for a growing boy. It would just keep growing with him!
I knit a hug into every stitch |
| NutmegOwl |
Posted - 05/08/2012 : 09:35:13 AM
Yarn made from sugar cane used in a lace shawl. It behaved much like bamboo in terms of texture and drape. However, the FO has almost doubled in size and is still growing ... :(
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Nutmeg Owl
Quaecumque sunt vera
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| Grand-moogi |
Posted - 05/08/2012 : 07:05:37 AM
I got bored while in a chinese restaurant and I picked up the chop sticks and tried to knit with the long strands of carrot. I could only do a couple of stitches tho so I suppose that does not count. My 'yarn' kept breaking. Oh and my dinner companions told me to behave myself.
I knit a hug into every stitch |
| kbshee |
Posted - 05/07/2012 : 9:06:51 PM
Hemp is the strangest yarn I've knitted with, strange mostly because I look at myself and say "how strange you choose to knit with this yarn which is really uncomfortable and not fun to work with."
kim in oregon
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