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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:27 pm
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While waiting to meet someone, I stopped into Michael's, and checked out their clearance stuff. Very dangerous!
Found a Viking Knit set for $1.49 and couldn't resist it. I'd seen it before, and was very interested in it, but couldn't justify over $15 just to try something I might not like doing. Apparently the price had dropped to around $5 before it was put on clearance.
You 'knit' (or weave) with wire and make a 'chain' over a dowel, you then pull the 'chain' through a draw paddle, making it progressively thinner and finer - anywhere from 16.4 (about as big as a dime) down to 3.2 (about average necklace chain size).
Of course, the kit did not come with wire, but I got a set of 4 spools (2 silver, 1 gold, 1 copper color), and I'm going to try it this weekend.
Can't wait!
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:50 am
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So, Viking Knitting turns out very pretty, and is actually a lot of fun, but I'm still trying to judge how long to make something to get the end result I want. Honestly, it's not hard to do, but it's very time consuming, and a little rough on your hands (pulling wire bare handed can be painful). Spent almost all day yesterday, doing 3 test pieces. I'll try to to post pics of them. The instructions that came in the kit were pretty useless since I flat out could NOT figure out what they were telling me to do, so I wound up looking on youtube to figure out HOW to do it! (My guess is they may have been translated from English to gibberish, and back, at least twice. And I thougt I was almost as fluent in gibberish as I am in typonese!...lol) Also, the cats were VERY helpful ... not! (Apparently thin, dangly, shiny stuff wiggling near the floor is irresistable!)
My first test piece, with 5 loops, using silver wire , was about 2 1/2" long before drawing it, and wound up about 4" long.
My second test was copper, using 5 loops, started about 7" long and wound up 13" after drawing it through the paddle. This will be turned into a dynamite necklace, once I put some end caps on it.
My third test using 4, not 5 loops to 'knit' with, was approximately 2" to start, and ended up about 5" long. (I could actually convert both the 1st & 3rd test pieces into bracelets, if I wanted to - just need end caps and clasps.)
Going to attempt to make a 4 strand necklace today, and based on my calculations, if I want to end up with an 18-20" necklace, I need to start out having at least a 10" long piece. (Good thing I just happen to have a 3 foot long dowel!) I will take pics of the entire process for this one, hopefully I'll be able to post them!
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 10:39 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 7:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:47 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:52 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:14 pm
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