Bracelet making

Earlier today I bought 25meters (82feet) of black 1mm leather string because I thought that might come in handy some time, and it allready has.
A few weeks ago I got an idea for a "new" use for needle binding. I read on Wikipedia that the women of the Nanti tribe in Peru used the technique to make bracelets and I thought "Hmmm, I wonder if that can be done with leather string?". And it could!

I used a regular, pretty large, blunt needle and bound as usual and in the pictures below you can see the result of this prototype project. It's a little uneven, but pretty good as far as a first attempt go.

This is the bracelet on my boyfriend's wrist. He asked me if he could have it so it's his now.

Here you can see the details a little bit better.
And here's a real close up so the knotwork really shows.

Learning something new

So, since my last post I've learnt a more modern, yet classic technique than my usual needlebinding. I've learnt to crochet! And here I'm going to present my very first crochet project: My shawl of many colours!


This shawl started out as just me practising my crocheting with some forest green wool, then it evolved into a left-over yarn project, but I ran out of left overs so then I had to go to the shop and buy some more. Yeah, yeah, I know it doesn't qualify as left-overs when I had to buy it, but what was a girl to do?
The shawl is about 165cm (65") wide and about 100cm (39,4") long.
The yarn I've used is called Cortina and is lovely, soft superwash wool and I used a 9mm crochet needle.