søndag den 31. januar 2010

uldperler


Hanne spørger til min ”uld perler” – hvor jeg får dem fra?
Og se – det er netop problemet. Jeg er nødt til at lave dem selv. For det første ved jeg slet ikke om sådan nogen findes, for det andet skal jeg jo bruge nogle i garnets farver.
Jeg har prøvet mig lidt frem:
Jeg strikker en hestetømme. Derefter valker jeg den. Mit første forsøg var at valke med håndkraft omkring en strikkepind (jeg skal jo sikre mig, at der er et hul i perlen). Derefter klipper jeg hestetømmen i små stykker og valker igen. Det gik nogenlunde.
Efterfølgende har jeg prøvet at trække en tyk nylontråd gennem hestetømmen og valke i vaskemaskinen. Så klipper jeg i stykker og de små kantede perler får en tur i tørretumleren sammen med nogle tennisbolde. Og hvis nogen vil prøve vil jeg tilråde at putte det hele i en pose. Det tog temmelig lang tid at få perlerne pillet ud af filter og slange. Men de der forblev i tørretumbleren blev meget gode.
Nu skal jeg bare lige finde en proces som holder – og lige pludselig kan jeg se en masse anvendelses muligheder.

I have been asked about the ”woolly beads” – where they are available.
And that’s the problem. I don’t know if they are available somewhere. That’s why I have to make them myself. And even if they exist, I still don’t know if I can get the colors I want.
I knit an i-cord and afterwards I full it. The first one I fulled by hand around a knitting needle to make sure there was a hole in the bead. Afterwards I cut the i-cord into small pieces and fulled again.
In my second experiment I draw a thick nylon line in the center of the i-cord and fulled in the washing machine. Again cut into small pieces an then I tumbled the beads in the drier together with some tennis balls. I would have been a good idea to put it all in a kind of bag. It took some time to remove the beads from the filter and the tube.
After all some of the beads were good and I just have to work on to find the right way.



Valket hestetømme/fulled I-cord
Hestetømmen klippes i små stykker/cut the I-cord into small pieces


Uldperlerne inden de valkes "runde" /The woolly beads before they are balled up.

9 kommentarer:

Ann sagde ...

De er ret fantastiske, dine uldperler.
Jeg kan lige forestille mig invasionen af sneperler i din tørretumbler ;-)

LauraRose sagde ...

Thank-you! After reading your previous entry, I have been thinking all week how I would go about making wooly beads. While the brain exercise was fun, it's much easier to have a starting point. I love the idea of having big beads to knit with that won't add a bunch of weight to the piece.

Knitting-twitter sagde ...

great advice, thank you very much.. all the best.. christa

Ulla sagde ...

Brilliant!

Katia sagde ...

Fantastic!
Thanks for sharing your great idea.
(and lots of sympathy for having had to clean the dryer!!!).
Greetings from Swizterland, Katia

Dorte sagde ...

Spændende proces med fine resultater !

farbenfaden sagde ...

Good Idea and thank you!!
Claudia from germany

hanne sagde ...

tak info, det må jeg prøve :)

soxchik sagde ...

Thanks for your wooly bead making tips. Now I want to embellish some socks and hats. You have terrific ideas.