Hankering for Yarn

Spoolknitting Baler Twine: A great way to make a reclaimed/recycled rug

by Noreen on October 22nd, 2006

I hate wasting things. I love reclaiming and recycling, recovering, renewing, and all those good things.

So, when Dora Renee wrote about how she is using baler twine to make rugs by knitting them on a knitting rake, I cheered!

Here’s her URL:

http://bricoreandfamily.blogspot.com/

We have 2 old Morgan horses,

(like all our animal companions, they are rescued). Anyhow, we feed hay to them all winter (Jim loves making hay - that’s a mystery to me) and so we have lots of baler twine
that I just hate to waste. I have crocheted it, but that is as hard on the tendons as crocheting with wire. And, I have woven with it on the inkle loom…. which made really sturdy tie down straps, but trashed my heddles. Phoo.

I wasn’t thrilled with any of those solutions, but,  Dora Renee’s brilliant idea, made me go aha!

I have woven a big pile of chair seat covers from large scale spoolknitting:

(I am sitting on one right now, in fact - very comfie)

and so I twigged that spoolknitting baler twine on the huge spoolknitters that Jim and I make:

http://www.crone-findlay.com/Crone-FindlayCreationsMightyMammaSpoolies.html

is a natural!

So, now, instead of getting rolled up to be used in the garden or barn, the baler twine is coming into the studio. :)

I am spoolknitting it, and will be weaving rugs with it. I even like the relentless orange color.

Happiness is a really big spoolknitter.

(and 2 happy old horses in the yard.

And,no we don’t ride.

Our daughter did when she was a teenager,

but I know that gravity works.

It’s the law.

So, I don’t push my luck by climbing up on tall critters.

I’d rather be spoolknitting.)

hugs all round

Noreen

www.crone-findlay.com

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