Knit Wits

Today in class with Feride, we explored knitting.  When I worked at Abercrombie, they put me in the sweaters department (I knew zip about knitting). While I picked up on the theory of it quickly, it was nice to finally learn about it in practice. Once we had the basics down, my classmate Jo and I turned martial arts sticks (basically broomsticks) into large knitting needles in the woodwork shop and used them to knit together long strips of Neoprene (kudos to Liz who kept this stuff since 1992).

Then I made some yarn out of an old T-shirt and knitted it together:

Before

After 

I plan to explore the idea of turning old T-shirts into knitting - perhaps in my millinery class I will explore knitting toques out of them.  I would also like to explore using old swimwear to create yarn for knitted bikinis.  This could be a good way to re-use old swimwear instead of taking them to the second hand shop (because that can be just gross...)