Crafty Confession

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

4 Comments

  1. Cross stitch ninja
    February 22, 2008 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

    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?

  2. Cross stitch ninja
    February 22, 2008 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

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

  3. kakariki
    February 22, 2008 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    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.

  4. Cross stitch ninja
    February 23, 2008 at 12:07 am | Permalink

    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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