Maybe I Think Too Much
But I deny being insane. This is insane. Or this.
What I do love is "complex" and "as small as I can make it".
Knitting with some purple variegated tatting thread on a pair of Havel's 7" doll needles, approximately the size of my 0000 knitting needles. The ruler in the picture, which I dearly love, is a 6-inch steel rule with inches divided into 64ths of an inch.
How do you knit with something that small?
A) I'm nearsighted. Taking my glasses off makes the far-away world go blurry, but up close it's like wearing Mag-Eyes all the time.
B) I knit with my fingernails. Specifically, my left middle fingernail controls the stitches as they leave the left needle. When I snapped this nail short a couple of weeks ago, I had a much harder time knitting with the really fine thread until it grew back out.
C) I really really like "small".
Labels: knitting
posted by Alwen | 8:45 AM
3 Comments:
You're still insane. Just not as insane as those other people. Haha. That's the beauty of the internet, you know - you can always find someone crazier than you. I find it all very comforting.
After looking at those sites, and your work, my state fair doily looks downright huge.
Muahahaha! I'm not alone! :)
I too have a fascination with complex and little, although my last foray into a doily in sewing thread and wire needles (0.75 mm) was foiled for appallingly awful points. I really should file down the points and give it another kick!
What's insane is that I spent the whole morning online trying to find metric micro drill bits that I didn't have to pay a $9 UPS charge to ship. They weigh less than an ounce, c'mon, US mail me those puppies!
Because, y'know, a woman's gotta have a way to make really tiny holes in metric sizes that match her really tiny knitting needles.
I'm not insane! I deny it! Just don't try to take any of my sharp pointy objects away and I'm finefinefine!
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