The Adventure of Making Chain
Bead-It (Prescott AZ) and I are offering a class to make a viking knit bracelet in March. I took the class example in to the bead store and in the process came home with two new (to me) tools to experiment with - a Knitting Spool and a Wyr Knittr. I wanted to know how the chain looked using these techniques compared to the Viking knit and how the processes differed. Viking Knit Example Check my post on viking knit to see that technique. http://lindabrittdesign.blogspot.com/2011/10/learning-as-we-go.html I started with the Knitting Spool – a wooden spool about 3” tall and 1 ½” wide with a hole through the middle. There are 5 cotter pins on the top and the wire is wound around the pins in one of 2 patterns. A pick helps put the lower wire over the upper wire at each cotter pin for each row. The knitted tube is funneled through the center hole and comes out the bottom. Knitter Spool Example I...