I've started a veritable production line today! I figured that it would make more sense to spend a whole afternoon with this fiddly job and put everything away afterwards than to carry the stuff backwards and forwards, take everything out and back again to make one set a day or only every few days. here is my "harvest" of stitch markers - which took me about 3 hours to make. I have to say that with a bit of practice not only do the loops become more even, but everything works out much faster, too!
the colours aren't true, most of them are turquoise, some with semi-precious cubes, others with glass discs. The colourful ones on the right are clown faces - and I figured clowns go with "bunt" (mixed colours). sometimes I only made 5, because some of the beads came from a mixed bag and only 5 of the same were inside.
this is a set I made for myself. the little blue cubes at the bottom of the markers are lapislazuli - a colour I really like, a strong blue. the other beads are shiny and matte black; six are for knitting, the other four are for crochet. I fixed small safety hooks to those, because with crochet there is no needle to push a marker with ring on! the hooks can be closed around a stitch, where they will remain safely.
another set of clown faces - this time only with blue and iridiscent beads.
those to the left have little rosy butterflies at the bottom, the ones on the right small flower-shaped discs.
send in the clowns! here they come - I figure they might lighten up a rainy and grey day for someone later:)) most of them will go away as small presents - there's only a limited amount of stitch markers I'd need for my own projects. I hope the recipients (not all are spoken for yet, but I am sure I'll find a worthy recipient for all of them eventually:))
I also finished two other projects - but unfortunately it's that time of the year again, where some FO's have to wait until the recipient has received them before they can be shown safely on the blog:))
12 comments:
You have outdone yourself-these are perfect little works of art; what beauty to adorn a knitting project!
Those clowns are TOTALLY cute!
definately cute :-)
thanks - I hope the recipients will like them too:)) finally a chance to raid my bead stash....
These are so cute! They'd keep me knitting just to be able to use them.
I think they are fabulous what a lovely present to give a knitter
It seems to be the week of the stitch markers or something ;-) I've spent both monday and tuesday obsessivly making stitch markers and I've heard from two other people who made many markers during roughly the same time :-D
Yours are wonderful, I also like the ones with the letters from your previous post.
Cheers,
Weird
maybe it's "in the air"?:)) no, I think it has to do with the fact that christmas comes closer and everyone needs a few nice small goodies to give away...
happy knitting (or whatever the crafties do at this time of the year... happy stitchmarker making isn't a word?)
Oh, "happy stitchmarker making" sounds fine to me :-D
Clever you. I'll have to get that book on how to make them and have a go myself.
Janet, I just bought a few supplies and managed to do them without a book. it's not difficult to do at all with small pliers!
ooohhh, postie came today, my very first stitch markers!!!! I love the clowns and thanks so much for all the goodies.
Sue...back from tramping through the snow....nursing a hot drink :-)
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