Knitting needle bangles
Look what we did this afternoon! I read zephyrama’s post yesterday, and knew that Clare and I just HAD to have a go ourselves at making knitting needle bangles.
Before: a pile of op-shop plastic knitting needles, and a how-to.
During: needles bubbling away in our old camping pan. A larger or longer pan would have been good but this was all that we had. They were a bit like spaghetti; as the end in the water softened, I could push the rest of the needle in.
After: a whole lot of bangles!
They’re not perfect, but it was lots of fun! With a bit more practice I reckon that we could do even better. Longer needles seem to be more successful. I’ll be keeping an eye out for long plastic needles in every op-shop that I enter from now on! Thanks Zephyrama! I vaguely remember people making bangles out of plastic toothbrushes when I was a kid – I suppose that it was the same process.
That looks like it was way too much fun!
How GORGEOUS! And Clare looks super proud of the day’s efforts.
I’ve been making some of these too. It’s a good one for instant satisfaction craft!!
Oh Lara, you are far far too naughty ! But hysterical all the same. It looks like a great project – maybe I should give it a shot?
What a cute idea!! I’ll have to keep my eye out for plastic knitting needles. LOL
hello, i was just wondering if you knew about Melbourne’s collaborative op shopping blog ‘I op therefore I am’
http://melb-opshopping.blogspot.com/
there are links there to maps and addresses of melbourne’s op shops. let me know if you are interested in joining.
regards, Amelia
What a fun thing to do there – must be a million abandoned knitting needles in op shops all over this city.
I’m so glad that you enjoyed making them, but oh, oh, you found black knitting needles, I’m to find me some black needles!