Rolling needles

I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the
stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small
animals that dig deep and fast.)

So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches.
Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making
socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at
sets of SPN.

Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam.

Aaron

Thank you AHaron , please put your hat back on your head:::
in what honor do you take it off ???
I read your description of organizing your needles with great
interest.
mirjam

I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the
stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small
animals that dig deep and fast.)

So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches.
Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making
socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at
sets of SPN.

Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam.

Aaron

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I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the
stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small
animals that dig deep and fast.)

So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches.
Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making
socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at
sets of SPN.

Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam.

Aaron


Why not do something like the sewing needlebooks, but on a larger scale?
For instance, instead of lining your needlebook with flannel, you
could use somethng like monkscloth or aida, which is sufficiently coarse
to allow you to slip the needles in between the weave.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40 and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the
stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are small
animals that dig deep and fast.)

So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches.
Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making
socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed at
sets of SPN.

Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam.

Aaron

Aaron, I saw a way of storing needles in a knitting store. You cut a long
rectangular piece of material and you sew pockets on top of it, with
little plasick tubing stuck in each pocket. Line the material first so it
is neatly finished. Each pocket will hold a set, or depending on the size
of the diameter of the plastic tubing, many needles of the same size.
Attach a couple of loops or rings along the top edge of your material and
hang it on the wall or roll it up and stand the whole thing in a large
container. You can mark the size of the needles at the bottom of each
pocket. So you can stop being a Gopher...LOL

Els

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Ja for Jazz and cobra loose the rrrrrrrr

I was in the Thrift Store the other day and found some really nice woolen
twill material, and a nice old but worn linen table cloth to use as lining.
After, I get the design worked out, my needles get a nice set of matching
suits with their names embroidered on them : )

I got my wife going on this, and she is a much better sewer than I am and
she has a better sewing machine.

Aaron
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wrote:

I'm trying to organize my DPN. The steel need to be wiped with WD-40
and
kept so that they do not get fingerprints on them when I paw through the
stash looking for that special little gopher of a tool. (Gophers are
small
animals that dig deep and fast.)

So, I have been prototyping cloth needle wraps, rolls, and pouches.
Somehow, it is not as easy as I expected. It is to quilting what making
socks is to knitting. All the patterns, that I see, seem to be directed
at
sets of SPN.

Any way, my hat is off to Dear Mirjam.

Aaron

Aaron, I saw a way of storing needles in a knitting store. You cut a long
rectangular piece of material and you sew pockets on top of it, with
little plasick tubing stuck in each pocket. Line the material first so it
is neatly finished. Each pocket will hold a set, or depending on the size
of the diameter of the plastic tubing, many needles of the same size.
Attach a couple of loops or rings along the top edge of your material and
hang it on the wall or roll it up and stand the whole thing in a large
container. You can mark the size of the needles at the bottom of each
pocket. So you can stop being a Gopher...LOL

Els

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Ja for Jazz and cobra loose the rrrrrrrr