Feb
22

Crafty Confession

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OK so next year I’m going to be a bridesmaid (weee!) for two of my best friends. And the bride has decided that since I’m a crafty one that I should be in charge of making things for the bridal party to wear.

EEK!

I have been posted instructions and materials. I need to crochet or knit a neck choker (3.5cmx36cm) and a matching thing for the wrist (3.5cmx16cm). The chocker can tie on, the wrist one can be buttoned.

The materials I have been given are a ball of gold metallic vicscose thread, it’s probably about the same thickness as un-separated embroidery floss. Six gold angel buttons about 2cm across, 1cm high. And a bag of gold 3mm pearl beads.

I’ve also been given a ball of DMC perle 8 in a dusty pink colour. It’s the colour the flower girls are going to be wearing, and the instruction was ‘feel free to make them something or not…’

So, well, bugger.

I don’t know how to knit or crochet. I tried to teach myself to crochet over the summer break. I was armed with books, websites, podcasts, diagrams and photos. I made something, but I don’t know if it was crochet…

So has anyone out there got any tips? Any patterns that might work well? I have a year to figure this out!

xox

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4 Responses to "Crafty Confession"

  • Cross stitch ninja says:
    February 22, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    What an honor to make things for a wedding!

    A friend of mine keeps saying that if she and her partner gets married someday she wants me to make her wedding gown. A kind of scary thought, but I’m flattered that she thinks so much of my sewing abilities.

    A good place to get started with learning to knit: http://www.knittinghelp.com/ They’ve got some really good instruction videos for different knitting techniques and stitches.

    Any thoughts on how you want the choker to look?

  • Cross stitch ninja says:
    February 22, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    I keep having trouble finding the right words for what I mean to say, I hope I’m making sense…

  • kakariki says:
    February 22, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    You’re making perfect sense. If in doubt, drink more coffee!

    I’ve got no idea how I want it to look, I think that’s half the problem. I’ll probably go for the simple approach. I think it sounds wise.

  • Cross stitch ninja says:
    February 23, 2008 at 12:07 am

    Probably a good idea.

    You could do bead knitting with garter stitch, so the focus would be on the beads and the pattern you make of them. I’m thinking something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8413958@N05/2167092550

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