Art From a Knitting Sampler

I enjoy creating art using a variety of mediums, mostly natural ones. This wall hanging utilizes cotton, wool, steel, and wood.

The knitting portion took about 3 hours, and the display portion about another hour.

I have two other canvases on my wall in this particular room which I tried to bring the outdoors in. This third piece is a slightly different interpretation of those, and ties in nicely.

For the 6" x 6" basketweave sampler,I used pink cotton yarn and US 6 needles.

Cotton yarn has little flexibility, compared to wool or acrylic, but also gives a crisper look to the stitches.

I made this knitting tube for an instructables contest for zip ties. It works so great! I have knitted probably 100' using it; still going strong!

Brain game

zip tie knitting tube 'ible

The green tube was made using two strands of green yarn in slightly different tones.

The wood is leftover hickory from our house build, and the nails are antique style flooring nails.

Gave it a good sanding, slightly rounded the edges, then gave it a coat of tung oil.

I wanted the holes in a slightly random pattern, to give more interest when I strung them with jute. Pre-drilling was necessary and made the hammering easy. I used a backer board and drilled all the way through. The nails ended up being hammered in just halfway.

Using a yarn needle and jute, I centered the sampler onto the board and sewed through various points to attach to the nails.

Tightened any slack up slightly, then knotted and snipped.

I tucked the two tubes in, and decided on a slightly off-balanced position, then sewed them to sampler using pink thread and needle.

Using two of the backs of the holes from the pre-drilling, I installed two wide-head screws, then wrapped wire around both of them.

I hammered a picture hanging hook onto the wall, and voila!

A great way to use up small amounts leftover from various projects.

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