{"id":209,"date":"2010-05-17T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:12:55","slug":"what-i-hate-about-knitting-and-how-to-make-ponpons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"What I hate about knitting, and how to make ponpons."},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, not many speak so enthusiastically about knitting as I do, but actually there is one thing I really hate about knitting and that is finishing. Making embellishments can be fun, especially when it involves new techniques to learn, but sewing up and weaving in ends are absolutely dead boring. I don\u2019t find finishing up as an activity rewarding at all, except from the fact that when you are done your new beautiful knitwear is ready to go, in it self this last process of the project is a pain to complete! I\u2019ve even had quite a few projects, all knitted up and done with, laying around forever and in the end being frogged just because I couldn\u2019t bring my self to finish them completely. What I normally do to shorten this agony and trying to actually finish my projects is that I weave in the ends as I go, so not all of them are left to do in the end. This works for me. What do you hate about knitting, and how do you make your self do it anyway?<\/p>\n

Speaking about embellishments, I have a project that is nearly done, and as you probably can guess, this time the process is supervised by someone who wont let me rest on my laurels. Not only that, but she is also very happy to be involved in finishing the project, so this weekend Nemi and I have been making ponpons. When we were at it we figured out that we might as well make a tutorial explaining how it\u2019s done. It is a pretty basic technique that I\u2019m sure that most of you know, but if you don\u2019t, here\u2019s the chance to learn it. By the way, ponpons make wonderful \u201dbombs\u201d for peaceful yarnbombing. I got this lovely comment on the blog a while ago asking me to share this video<\/a>, go have a look, and do notice the ponpon.
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\nJoda jeg vet, det er ikke mange som prater s\u00e5 entusiastisk om strikking som det jeg gj\u00f8r, men det er faktisk noe ved strikkinga som jeg virkelig misliker og det er det som kommer etter selve det \u00e5 strikke. Det \u00e5 lage ulike dekorasjoner kan v\u00e6re artig, s\u00e6rlig hvis det medf\u00f8rer en ny teknikk som kan utforskes, men det \u00e5 sy sammen kanter og feste tr\u00e5der er absolutt det kjedeligste jeg vet! Jeg finner ikke denne delen av prosessen givende i det hele tatt, bortsett fra det enkle faktum av at n\u00e5r det er gjort s\u00e5 er jo prosjektet ferdig og klart til \u00e5 tas i bruk, men i seg selv s\u00e5 syns jeg at avslutninga er en pine \u00e5 skulle fullf\u00f8re. Jeg har hatt flere prosjekt som jeg har strikket ferdig for s\u00e5 \u00e5 la de ligge rundt i evigheter, for til slutt \u00e5 rekke opp hele sullamitten, bare fordi jeg ikke kunne f\u00e5 meg selv til \u00e5 gj\u00f8re unna dette siste som sto igjen. Hvordan jeg normalt l\u00f8ser dette, for \u00e5 forkorte pinen og for \u00e5 faktisk f\u00e5 noe ferdig. er at jeg pr\u00f8ver \u00e5 feste tr\u00e5der underveis i arbeidet, s\u00e5nn at ikke alt blir v\u00e6rende igjen til slutt. Dette fungerer i en viss grad for meg. Hva med deg? Hva misliker du \u00e5 gj\u00f8re, og hvordan f\u00e5r du deg selv til \u00e5 gj\u00f8re det allikevel?<\/p>\n

N\u00e5 som jeg er inne p\u00e5 dette med dekorasjoner, s\u00e5 har jeg jo et prosjekt som s\u00e5 og si er ferdig, og denne gangen har jeg noen som overv\u00e5ker prosessen og som passer p\u00e5 at jeg ikke hviler p\u00e5 mine laub\u00e6r. Ikke bare det, men hun er hjelpsom ogs\u00e5, og vil mer enn gjerne bli med p\u00e5 \u00e5 gj\u00f8re ferdig plagget. S\u00e5 denne helga har Nemi og jeg v\u00e6rt travelt opptatt med \u00e5 lage ponponer. I det vi holdt p\u00e5 s\u00e5 fant vi ut at vi like s\u00e5 godt kunne lage en forklaring p\u00e5 hvordan det gj\u00f8res. Det er jo en temmelig element\u00e6r teknikk som jeg regner med at de fleste kan, men kan du det ikke s\u00e5 har du n\u00e5 muligheten til \u00e5 l\u00e6re. Forresten, ponponer er flotte som \u201dbomber\u201d for fredelig \u201dgarnbombadering\u201d. Jeg fikk en trivelig kommentar p\u00e5 bloggen min for ei stund siden hvor jeg ble spurt om jeg ville dele denne videoen<\/a>, ta en titt og legg merke til ponponen.<\/em>
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\nNow, tutorial!
\nN\u00e5, s\u00e5nn skal det gj\u00f8res!<\/em><\/p>\n

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First of all you need to draw your template. We used some scrap carton from a cereal box, and a small glass and a coin to draw around. Basically you want to end up with two even donuts, the width of the donut represents the radius of your ponpon.<\/p>\n

F\u00f8rst m\u00e5 du tegne malen din. Vi brukte kartong fra en frokostblandingseske, og et lite glass og en mynt til \u00e5 tegne rundt. Det du vil ende opp med er to like smultringer, vidden p\u00e5 smultringen representerer ponponens radius. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Then you cut out the templates. Using a darning needle and holding the two templates together as one, start winding your yarn through the centre hole and around the template, keeping the treads tidy and even. <\/p>\n

S\u00e5 klipper du ut malene. Legg malene sammen som \u00e9n mal og begynn \u00e5 surre garnet gjennom hullet i midten og rundt smultringen. Det er lettest hvis du bruker en stoppen\u00e5l til dette siden hullet fylles opp etter hvert, pr\u00f8v \u00e5 holde tr\u00e5dene jevne og tette n\u00e5r du surrer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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How many rounds you choose to wind is what decide the fullness of your ponpon. We usually make quite a few rounds, almost or completely filling the centre hole.<\/p>\n

Det er hvor mange runder du velger \u00e5 surre som bestemmer hvor fast ponponen din blir. Vi pleier som regel \u00e5 surre s\u00e5nn at midthullet fylles helt med garn.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Now push the yarn to side so that a small section of the cardboard template is showing, you need to reveal enough so that you can manage to put the point of your scissors between the two templates. Then cut the yarn around separating the two templates. <\/p>\n

N\u00e5 skal du dytte garnet til side slik at litt av kartongen kommer fram, du trenger nok plass til \u00e5 kunne smette tuppen p\u00e5 saksa i mellom de to malene. Klipp helt rundt mellom malene.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Place a thread of yarn between the two templates and fasten with a tight knot, wind it tightly around the ponpon a couple of times, and secure by making another knot or two. Now you can remove the templates, and after some beautifying trimming… Voila! Ponpons ready to go!<\/p>\n

Legg en tr\u00e5d med garn mellom malene, surr rund og knyt stramt, surr et par ganger til og sikre ponponen med en knute eller to igjen. N\u00e5 kan du fjerne kartongen, og etter litt forskj\u00f8nnende stussing… Voila! Ferdige ponponer!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I know, I know, not many speak so enthusiastically about knitting as I do, but actually there is one thing I really hate about knitting and that is finishing. Making embellishments can be fun, especially when it involves new techniques to learn, but sewing up and weaving in ends are absolutely dead boring. I don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-tutorials","category-work-in-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}