Jerry 🦙💝🦙In happier news, my wife bought the most fascinating machine. It knits yarn into a continuous tube. I think I lost an hour to watching it run this morning.
Double_Virgule 🚫👑@jerry Absolutely mesmerizing. But...why do you need continuous yarn tubes?
@double_virgule you see, it’s like this:
Step 1: make yarn tubes
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit
We are still working out step 2
Tindra@jerry @double_virgule coil into placemats, rugs, etc.
I have both the extremely manual (it’s a spool with 4 nails in it. Seriously, that’s the whole tool) and semi-manual (hand-crank) versions of this.
@TindrasGrove @double_virgule so I think the intention is to put a thin piece of wire inside the tube and then make various shapes and lettering for decoration. I also mentioned the idea of actually knitting with the tubes, which seems like it would result in some cool stuff.
@TindrasGrove @jerry Ah, neat. My mom makes rugs using strips of old t-shirts. Is there a maximum thickness on this? Could you cut t-shirts or other old cloth small enough and knot end-to-end to make recycled tubes?
@double_virgule @jerry I suspect it would be hard to get cut fabric thin enough to work for this model and still be structurally sound.
But I’ve totally done other crafts (crochet, weaving, braiding) with cut strips of fabric!