FiReSidE kNiTTinG

On a recent trip to Hornby Island, I visited the free store and found some wool yarn, some beads, and some knitting needles. I've been wanting to play with bead knitting, so I was happy to find them. One night I sat by the fire and knitted this necklace.

To do bead knitting, you string the beads on your yarn before you start knitting. For "true" bead knitting you can only see beads on the right side, and only yarn on the wrong side, because you bring up a bead at every stitch. I interspersed the beads in a random pattern, and knitted with a variegated yarn.

I would probably not have knitted a necklace (or anything else!) in this yarn and these beads (blue and brown) if I were in my studio, so the exercise was interesting. At this time of year the necklace seems a bit wooly, but in the fall it will look ultra cool on a lovely turtle neck sweater, or other such wintry attire. : )

A few months ago I added some bead crochet, in a kind of spiderweb/cross design, to a little torn hole in "rosie", a piece I made for the Port Moody Wearable Arts Awards. The outfit was made out of plastic mesh onion bags, and torn strips of burgundy lining scraps left over from a prom dress I made for a customer. : ) (ok, I'll post that one of these days...!)

I knitted another necklace too, that is like a sculpture, in a different yarn. It is kind of 3D, and needs to be stuffed. I'll post that later dudes, and dudettes.