hiya biita! so happy you are back! can't wait to hear more about your rugs...oh....and...we'll take some of that snow off your hands! we've only had a foot this year. even sjoerd has had more than us!!!!!!!
Are the rugs woven or braided? Hurry up and find that camera cable. What would happen if you stomp your foot at the nisse trolls? Would they straighten up and leave things alone? Sometimes I could swear we have some in our house too, things sure go missing a lot and then reappear a day or two later. My luck tho they would be insulted by the foot stomp and never return things
I am very happy to be back also Bunkie! I will gladly send snow to anyone who wants it!! lol. No fair Droopy! You have temps over the freezing level,,i am jealous! lol. We still have more snow flying as we speak, and more on the way! Toni i am doing an old, very old way of crocheting,,,sort of. I still do not get the whole needle thing. But i have found a way that the vikings crocheted. Its called NÃ¥lbindering. Means needle binding,,,but your fingers are the needles. When you get done, the finished product is very close to the look of an american fold braided rug. This technique was used for socks and mittens by the vikings, and even the men knew how to do it. Weeks or even months at sea, someone had to make new socks or mittens. The technique has been used even as late as the sea men from the early 20th century. there is a few different ways to do this,,but i just use the most basic stitch right now because of the very close weave, and that works good for rugs.
had to look it up biita, the needle binding! looks very interesting, and definitely doable. now i'm going to have to try it! thanks so much biita, i really needed another project like i needed another hole in my head!
I looked for instructions too. I know I have seen needles like that somewhere, probably in one of the antique mall type places. I have all sorts of left over bits of yarn that would work for a rug. I used to crochet rugs but my fingers won't let me crochet anymore but needle binding I could do.
lol. Sorry Bunkie! But it can be tried later on,,,when you run out of other things to try. Toni, i have a hard time with my fingers also, and when i tried with the needle they would just cramp up, or have unneccessary pain. So i just use my fingers alone, because i am not grasping that little needle. It seems to go alot easier for me. Altho i am not usuing yarn, i am using rug material. I got bags of this up in Lofoten and paid 150 Nkr. for 20 balls of material. one bag makes a rug of about 2 meter or 6' around. Nice size. I have a few of those needles and have choose to do with my fingers and find that i now understand when all used to say the sat and watch tv and work on a project at the same time. lol. I can now multi-task!!
