BIG KNITTING

Recently I got some custom made knitting needles made for me as i really wanted to have a go at some giant knitting. These needles i had made were 20mm and about 1 metre long so they are pretty big. 

So then the next issue was getting yarn big enough for me to actually knit with without having massive whole in the knitting so i did find some on Etsy but none in the UK so it all became very expensive and i had to wait a while to receive the yarn etc..... 

I went to uni and visited the fabric cupboard and asked our technician what he thought would be the best place to get what i want, after not really finding anywhere, he showed me some fleece that they stocked in the cupboard and it was perfect 

This is the natural fleece that i brought from the fabric cupboard 

I then went onto to dye the fleece as i wanted a yellow colour as yellow is all i can think about at the moment!!

As you can see after i had dyed it, it became a bit felted which at first i was like oh this isn't going to work, but it actual fact its a plus as it makes the yarn stronger as the fleece on its own was very easy to pull apart and would of just broke when i tried to knit with it.

Above you can see the yellow ball of felted yarn unseen, so next was to spin it, but there wasn't a spinning wheel big enough for us to spin it, so again i went and asked the technician and he had a brilliant idea of using a drill and a screw in eyelet in the end of the drill. One end attached to the drill and me the other end of the corridor holding the other end. Powered the drill up and it spun the hole lot in no time.

We then had the slow process of wrapping it around this cardboard tube and pulling all the curly bits out. Once we have it all spun and wrapped around the tube it then had to go into the steamer for 30mins just to make sure it didn't unravel when taken off the tube.

And finally this is the finished ball of YELLOW yarn and i have to say i love it, defiantly going to be making a lot more of my own yarn.

Finally here is the start of me knitting with some of it. I have to say don't be fooled by a big ball of yarn if your making something on massive needles as the yarn will go down so quick so I'm going to have to make a lot more, but i love making it so its go biggie.