Sweet Knitting

.During my lunch hours I've been listening to an interview on Craft Sanity with fiber artist Betz White. She makes art out of recycled thrift store sweaters and had a pile of the ribbed parts left over. She said she was reading to her son, both of them just about asleep, when the cupcakes vision came to her. They are pincushions so they are practical as well as purty! She made 2 dozen for an art fair she was about to participate in and sold out of them within a couple of hours. They've been her biggest seller ever since.

Then she branched off into these cups. Love them. The handle is made from knitted cording, the kind you make in a spool. I know Gretchen and I had one as a kid - it was fun! Now they have them with a crank handle, called a Cool Corder. Seems like that kind of takes the fun out of it but definitely faster.



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