Garden Knitting

[mming4351]

Hi, I was wondering... what size would you say are the "needles" you are working with (I know that they are home made, want to look for wooden rods) and how many stitches to length of the project?

[wackysis201100]

Where can i buy those needles?

[SkunkyPink]

This is good for beginngers knitters

[bozomahoney]

amazing !



[exotikk1]

That is a great idea! I might do this to make a rug!

[amandapanda442]

that is awesome and so cooool

[ToniVienna]

incredibly cool!

[MissJordyC]

you rock! never stop knitting

[kitsuneofthewoods]

it would be hard to do this continental style :)

[methodistgirl]

I finally found some big needles so I

could make a rug like that in garter

stitch instead of the stockenette.

methodistgirl

[angel292005]

Love it! Great work. Have you made anything else?

[venusenviedotcom]

those are the biggest needles i have ever seen! what size? 100?

[Disneylover1023]

Is that how you knit like a blanket or something? thx

[greenboygirl]

I am not sure what it is really. It would be great to take camping as a mattress but too heavy and hot as a blanket and too thick for a rug so at the moment it is used as a throw on my futon.

[methodistgirl]

I would have to get two wooden dowels in

my case.  I can't find wooden broom handels

here. Most of them are metal with plastic

coating.

methodistgirl

[greenboygirl]

You could try it it is simple to set up all i did was cut a broom handle in half sharpen the ends and wrapped elastic around the other end to stop the wool coming off. I have used around 25 balls (they can be just off cuts, or you dont have to use so many) and get knitting the only difficult bit is keeping all the balls in check, they roll around and get tangled (even though we made a devise to keep them seperated).

[peacelovebrighteyes]

Awesome! I would love to try that!

[methodistgirl]

How do you knit with something that big and

so many threads? I would be losing about

half if I tried. I don't know since I never

tried. The biggest needles I can find are

size 15 and they don't come close to what you

are knitting with unless you made the needles

with wooden dowels. Even the knitting needles

would have to be homemade.

[greenboygirl]

Sorry for not replying sooner to your message regarding my Garden knitting. To answer your question it was quite tricky to get the hang of it but thats all the fun. I did make the knitting needles from a broom handle cut in half and then sharpened the ends and put elastic at the other end to stop the threads from falling off but i do have to confess i have only adapted another persons idea i did not come up with it myself.

[becky5653]

Wow, I call this extreme knitting!!

[hpysparrow]

I WANT! I WANT!!:D

[ferre347]

wow, amazing i loved it

[ficklephonebug]

OMG! Where in the known world do you find needles that HUGE!!!!! You are amazing, and your blanket is very pretty. This is so crazy,

I am amazed!!!!

[greenboygirl]

So sorry for not replying sooner you left a message a year ago with regards to my Garden knitting. So glad you were amazed!!! I made the Needles from a broom handle, just cut it in half and sharpened the ends. I have to confess though the large knitting idea was not mine i just adapted what i had seen.

[SueAz09]

did you finish this? was it a blanket? I would love to see the finished product!

[greenboygirl]

I can only apologise for my lack of reply. I received your message a year ago regarding my garden knitting (as i like to call it). I haven't finished the project but i like to think of it as on-going. I was never sure what i was going to use it for possibly a rug as it is too heavy for a blanket or a picnic blanket it would be so comfy to sit on. I may eventually when it is finished post another video to show what it looks like completed.