True Blue Me & You: Doable Unique DIYs

DIY Pixie Dust Knitted Lap Blanket Pattern from The Purl Bee here. Love this blanket! But if I buy 7 skeins of their $36.60 yarn my price (before the $30 needles) would be $256.20 (before shipping). But if I made my own needles (tutorial here) and used less expensive yarn, maybe doubling it with sparkly novelty yarn, it may be within my budget.

DIY Giant Rug Made From Giant Knitting Needles and Tee Shirt Yarn from inspiration & realisation here. Remember when I posted Donatella’s tutorial here for making gigantic size 50 knitting needles from wooden dowels? This post is about the tips and tricks she learned from knitting with these huge needles. I cannnot wait to try this! *For how to make tee shirt yarn go to this post here.

truebluemeandyou: Extreme Knitting - needles and Ravelry Blanket. Reblogging after posting inspiration & realisation’s DIY giant knitting needles here.

This is that Blanket that Everyone was Looking for a Pattern for! DIY Giganto Blanket here Finally Finished now with Tutorial and Pattern at Ravelry  here for $4.99. You have to sign up at Ravelry, but that’s free. I just watched the video (link at bottom) with my significant other and it is amazing. Extreme knitting. Written at Ravelry:

This enormous blanket is knit on 1 1/2” PVC pipe, using slightly-felted superwash (yes, you read that right) unspun wool roving. This pattern is more of a tutorial, as the pattern is: CO 28, k2 p2, BO!

If you’ve ever wanted to knit in a gigantic gauge, this pattern teaches you where to find the raw materials, how to create “yarn” and “needles” from unusual objects, and finally how to knit up your very own giganto-blanket!

Click here to watch a video tutorial.

(via truebluemeandyou)

DIY Hardware Store Giant Knitting Needles from inspiration & realisation here. I’ve seen up to size 15 at Michaels that are pretty short and expensive. Donatella is going to use thick tee shirt yarn with these huge needles. Her DIY tee shirt dyed yarn tutorial is posted here. *Last year I posted the extreme knitting needles for that gorgeous wool blanket that was knitted on PVC pipes here. *EDIT: Donatella said these were equivalent to US Size 36 or mm20.

Six DIY Circular Knitting Neddle Case Tutorials. skillzmcfly asked:

Hi! I was just wondering if you’ve ever come across any DIY knitting needle cases for circular/interchangeable needles. I’ve looked around and all I’ve really found are cases to sew for standard straight needles, which I’ve already made. I really just need a case for my new Options set by KnitPicks and I can’t seem to find anything.

1. DIY tutorial by Vanilla Joy here.
2. DIY tutorial by bethsco blog here.
3. DIY tutorial on stoneview’s Flickr) here.
4. DIY By Number 19 here.
5. DIY Binder by Grin and Frog it here.
6. DIY tutorial by Pin and Paper here.