This Week I Knitted With ... An Aliceband

This reminded me of knitting in the round.

This Week I Knitted with ... Clothes Pegs

Spring is here so that means hanging clothes outside. Also means knitting with clothes pegs!

This Week I Knitted With ... Wine Bottles

New awesome party trick! Not. This is something I wouldn't do for a party trick, especially if there is alcohol involved. The first row or two you think you're going to drop the bottles.

Free cat!

This week I knitted with ... Tissues

A few days ago I received an order from J-box and got a free packet of Japanese pocket tissues. Since I have little use of it, I thought I'd knit with them!

But first off I have to roll them up. Sort of like what I did for Knitting with Paper stuff

Don't be like me and use artists masking tape. It'll just keep coming undone.

On to the knitting..

This Week I Knitted With ... matchsticks

Casting on was simple enough. If you're using the 5.5cm long needles then CO no more then 6 stitches.



I only knitted 3 rows; I was scared I'd get a splinter

This Week I Knitted With ... Paper

Knitting with paper may seem a little impossible, so I'm going to roll the paper up.

Get a corner, and roll it up with a pen. (though here I'm using a knitting needle)

next up, stick it together with tape.

and you're done

On with the knitting!

To start with the hole from the roll-up was useful to get into the stitches, but after the first row it was starting to get blunt.

This Week I Knitted With ... AA Batteries

This was such a pain. I thought of giving up half way. I kept thinking I was going to drop the batteries. They have a weird weight to them.


Next time I wont knit with black thread, you can't see anything!

This Week I'm Kitted With ... Christmas Tree Twigs

Next week it's Christmas day, so lets all pause from our last minute shopping for a minute and admire my hard labor.

Humm, that looks a little painful...


That's better

More after the jump

This Week I Knitted With ... Ice Cream Sticks

I found this time was quite hard to start off with (I think I CO too tightly, anyway). For the first row I sort of slipped one of the sticks over the other one (see below)


Working on purl garter stitch for some rows helps you get used to knitting with the sticks

This week I knitted with ... Scissors

Knit loosely and you can't go wrong.

This week I knitted with... Pens

You know the feeling. You're on a 6 hour plane journey and, for security reasons, you got your needles confiscated. You feel your hands itching to make something. You think that you are going to pass out if you don't do something soon.

WAT DO?

Another new thing I thought up. (at the retreat no less) Every week (or so) I use object you wouldn't think to use for knitting.

This time it's pens.

It's quite fun, but you will get your hands messy. Make sure that you are using those BIC cheapo pens, they don't dry after not having there cap on.

Try not to CO too many stitches or they might fall off.