It's a funny thing when something jogs the memory. Especially when without this certain thing to suddenly throw open the mind door, one would've never known it was there, ever. Whilst cleaning out a drawer the other day I came upon some embroidery thread and a memory of a particular hand weaving technique I did as a child suddenly popped up. I remember doing it once but have no idea when or how I had learned to do it. Enter the lovely internet; I do love it for things like this. So I was googling along and stumbled onto a page showing 'Finger knitting' on 'Finger weaving'. It wasn't what I was looking for but when I looked at a photo of it suddenly several memories just hit me of doing this all the time as a kid. It struck me that I would have never remembered that otherwise. Looking around a little further, I found I somehow missed this entire article about it in the new Knitty, duh.
I had quite a bit of a ball of yarn left over from the Beaufort hat, you know the too much to throw away but not really enough to make something - and this headband/wrap was born.
It took all of 15 minutes and works really well actually. I'm thinking this will be a great solution for those left over half-skeins from other projects. Now I can have a matching headband for each sweater or top.
I had quite a bit of a ball of yarn left over from the Beaufort hat, you know the too much to throw away but not really enough to make something - and this headband/wrap was born.
It took all of 15 minutes and works really well actually. I'm thinking this will be a great solution for those left over half-skeins from other projects. Now I can have a matching headband for each sweater or top.
Cute! And a great idea for those bits of leftover yarns.
What a cute idea! Great for this hot weather too!!
How F-in' clever! I may have too look at some of my left overs and see what I can make. Of course, headbands never stay on my head, so perhaps I'll gift 'em to nieces with long hair.
Very cute!
I just learned to fingerknit from one of my students in my kids knitting class. How fun!
haha, i remember that. 'cept it was neon colors back then.
I know exactly what you're talking about with the memory jog thing. It's happened to me before and then I think, "How did I forget about that?". It's like finding money in an old purse you haven't used in years.
Really cute headband!
I'm definitely going to copy you and make some of those. Headbands look good on me but it's so hard to find cute ones at the stores. Perfect solution!
yeah! i remember doing that with those little neon rings that looked like pantyhose cut-ups. id make such gaudy necklaces and what not. and how you cant forget about the potholders?! :)
yeah! i remember doing that with those little neon rings that looked like pantyhose cut-ups. id make such gaudy necklaces and what not. and how you cant forget about the potholders?! :)