{"id":282,"date":"2010-09-14T21:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-09-14T21:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T20:21:04","slug":"knitting-on-broomsticks-as-any-decent-witch-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Knitting on broomsticks, as any decent witch will do"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished a fun and quite out of the ordinary project. I\u2019ve knitted a wall; yes you read it correctly, a wall. To be honest I actually stole the idea from a children\u2019s activity tent at the Camden Green Fair<\/a>. This tent was absolutely awesome, it had a huge knitted wall in black chunky yarn and all over it there were attached colourful buttons made out of spray painted jar lids. Mine is a simpler version, but I\u2019m still pretty proud of how it came out. I made the knitting needles using broomsticks which I sanded with an electrical sander to get them smooth and pointy, then I painted two polystyrene balls (the kind you can find in any craft shop) with acrylic paint and glued them to the broomsticks. I tore cotton fabric to make the yarn, casted on using the backward loop method, and knitted my wall. The idea is to encourage to see new possibilities in what there is, and to show that you can knit with practically anything. It looks pretty neat in my stall doesn\u2019t it? The thing is, that just as I finished this cool decorative project for my stall, I made a huge decision. To be fair, WE (my husband and I) made a huge decision. We are taking the wool stall to the next level and are opening a wool shop. Really scary, exiting and exhausting at the same time! I\u2019ll tell you all about it later…<\/p>\n

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Jeg har akkurat avsluttet et artig og annerledes prosjekt. Jeg har strikket en vegg, ja du leste riktig, en vegg. For \u00e5 v\u00e6re helt \u00e6rlig s\u00e5 har jeg stj\u00e5let ideen fra et barneaktivitetstelt som jeg s\u00e5 p\u00e5 Camden Green Fair<\/a>. Dette teltet var absolutt fabelaktig, det hadde en diger strikket vegg i tykt svart garn, og rundt om p\u00e5 veggen var det festet fargerike knapper laget av spraylakkerte syltet\u00f8yglasslokk. Min vegg er en noe enklere versjon, men jeg er allikevel ganske s\u00e5 stolt over hvordan den endte opp. Jeg lagde strikkepinnene av kosteskaft som jeg pusset jevne og spisse i den ene enden med en elektrisk pussemaskin, s\u00e5 malte jeg to isoporkuler med r\u00f8d akrylmaling og tr\u00e6dde dem p\u00e5 den andre enden av kosteskaftene og sikret med en god d\u00e6sj lim. Jeg rev opp bomullst\u00f8y som garn, la opp med enkelt l\u00f8kkeopplegg, og strikket meg en vegg. Ideen er \u00e5 oppmuntre til \u00e5 se nytt i det som allerede \u00e9r, og \u00e5 vise at du kan strikke med praktisktalt hva som helst. Den ser ganske lekker ut der den henger i bua ikke sant? Det er bare det, at i d\u00e9t jeg gjorde ferdig dette dekorative prosjektet til bua mi, s\u00e5 tok jeg en stor avgj\u00f8relse. Eller mer rettferdig; VI (mannen og jeg) tok en stor avgj\u00f8relse. Vi tar det neste store skrittet med garnbua og \u00e5pner garnbutikk. Det er virkelig spennende, skummelt, og veldig slitsomt p\u00e5 en gang! Jeg skal fortelle deg alt om det senere…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished a fun and quite out of the ordinary project. I\u2019ve knitted a wall; yes you read it correctly, a wall. To be honest I actually stole the idea from a children\u2019s activity tent at the Camden Green Fair. This tent was absolutely awesome, it had a huge knitted wall in black chunky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,25],"tags":[46,31,143,142,30],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished","category-inspiration","category-knit-with-attitude","tag-broomsticks","tag-camden-green-fair","tag-finished","tag-knit-with-attitude","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}