Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts, Bringing the natural world to your crafts. The little girl's sewing book. Kandahar's Combat Knitters use yarn and needles as weapons of self-preservation. In the highlands of Peru, sheep are shorn. Their fleece is milled, spun into yarn and exported to a Seattle distributor, which ships the yarn across the continent to a knitting shop on North Fayette Street in Alexandria, where it is purchased in 220-yard skeins by a Navy captain's wife and her fellow knitters of Northern Virginia, who box the skeins into care packages and mail them 10 time zones away to a NATO hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Attn: Combat Knitters. The Combat Knitters tote their yarn and needles in nondescript pouches, sneaking a few stitches here and there, under their desks, between shifts, after saving or losing a patient, waiting for a rocket attack to end, watching F-16s taking off from the airfield. Wrists piston and needles click as the knitters watch a Friday-night movie projected on a barracks wall under the black sky of southern Afghanistan. The Combat Knitters are women in their early 20s and mid-50s. They are Navy corpsmen, nurses and physicians.
Make a Kumihimo Disk and Bracelet Part 1. My daughter and I have been on a bracelet making kick lately. I've found this fabulous method of making bracelets based on a Japanese braiding technique called Kumihimo. My technique uses a homemade Kumihimo disk and embroidery floss. Part 1 of this tutorial focuses on making the disk. Required Supplies:1. Printout of Kumihimo Disk Template (save and print the jpg below as if it were a 5x7 print to achieve the correct size): 2. Start by cutting out your printed template.
Paste the template on your base. Use your knife to cut along the outside circle AND the inside circle. Use a straight edge to cut each of the 32 small lines around the diameter of the circle. Congratulations - you have completed your disk!
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