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French knitting pin cushion oh-la-la

I made this for Competition

Created by: Joy H

  • Project Details

    About

    The challenge was to create any article using French knitting.
    Memories of spiral coasters was all I knew of the craft.
    After knitting what seemed like miles of the stuff, I played around with it and came up with this mannaquin pin cushion. Came 2nd in the comp, beaten by 2 spirals made into a bag!

    Yarns

    • material-yarn
      Ice yarns wool 4ply & metallic yarn - Blue/silver/white

    Needles & Hooks

    Other : Knitting dolly

    Accessories

    • Stuffing
    • Tapestry Needle
    Other : I made a base fabric mannequin, secured with air dry clay into a small pot, then wound and stitched knitting onto the base.

    Tags

    • Decorations
    • Other
    • Home

    Craft

    Knitting

    Skill Level

    Beginner

    Status

    Complete
    Started on: Mar 19, 2016 Finished on: Aug 17, 2016

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    4 Comments

    • Little knits

      • London

      I like your profile picture
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    • Little knits

      • London

      So so pretty,perfect and cute how do you do it
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      • Joy H

        • Damnglaur

        If you sew make a basic model, I used the mannequin out of Debbie Shore's book.
        Then I made loads of French knitting, or you could knit 2x I-cord in two colours or more using a fine yarn, 4 ply or finer. Then it's just a matter of playing around with it. Made some small spirals, just join with small stitches. Then stitched and glues the rest around the shape. It was fun after I'd done the knitting part and it was much admired at the competition show. I did do the knitting and left it a while until I came back to it with the idea.
        Have fun
        Joy
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