Rachel John, Extreme Knitting, 1000 Strand Knit
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Rachel John, Extreme Textiles, broke records by knitting with a 1000 strands simultaneously! This video shows the set up of the event and the event itself. This event took place at the Southhill Park Unravel Textiles exhibition in October 2006. – - – - – - – It is a challenge for all of us to take the waste products that our society produces and to put it to good use. This video was made in order to stimulate that process. The comments on this video have been an insight into how people view things when taken out of context. For instance – should I be knitting blankets for charity? I do much charitable work – I cannot increase the hours on this as I wouldn’t have time to earn the basics for living. I am happy if this stimulates others to find waste and turn it into blankets for needy. Especially as – using my tools – you can make blankets in a twentieth of the time it takes to make one in squares. If you feel there should be more knitting for charity, join your local group, set one up if there isn’t one, and see what you can achieve. You may find a whole new community that brings you joy and a feeling of worthiness. I am one person with the same number of hours in my day as you and they are pretty full already! No yarn was wasted in the making of this installation – the yarn will be put to good use when the piece has finished circulating as a 1st in the world example of taking multi strand to the limits. – - – - – Over half the yarn in the installation was deemed as waste …
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Was that throwing? Lol
I’ll buy a mattress please!
Awesome.
thanks for making this vide .. your effort is appreciated … Never seen much mount of yarn before, I can’t find one here easy .. Can I know from which store or comapny you order all that!
what were they going to do with it when they were done? its amazing but i couldve used all that yarn to make baby hats and hats for kids with cancer!
Absolutely amazing!!!! If you ever need yarn for another project like this please don’t hesitate to contact me
anne_germann@yahoo.com
Love it! Rhetorical comments next: Would like to see you CO, P7tog (yes 7 ), Psso, Ssk, K2tog, BO and weave in the tails. Did you gauge this? LOL!! Can you do entrelac with this system? Ugh!
What size are those needles? LOL! Can you crochet, too. @@ I do both – not with 1,000 strands, though! ((:
What’s your next project? Well, anyhow, I S & S this rascal and want to thank you for brightening my day!!
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I think her gauge is off a little. ; )
@SKTPSY Wow! Extremely charitable of you!! I hope your headaches get better.
Love the Video. Cool!
@MsJK21 Oh, Go Away, Troll. Leave me alone and bug someone else, loner. Don’t bother to post I will be deleting without reading the crap.
@SKTPSY Migraines? That would certainly explain your testiness. What explains your assumption that you are the only one doing charity work?
@MsJK21 I am off from my charity work due to severe migraine and by the way you could do better than this yourself and do some charity work instead.
@NateinMpls Interesting how you call posting a negative comment on this person’s video as not pointing the finger at this person. But you’re all relaxed now, so let’s just let it go, shall we?
@NateinMpls Could you take several minutes and read the video description? There, do you feel better? Less angry perhaps? Good! Take a couple of deep breaths with me. In-n-n-n-n-n and ou-ou-ou-ou-out. In-n-n-n-n-n and ou-ou-ou-ou-out. There you go!
@SKTPSY No argument here. Why aren’t you spending your time on charity instead of passing judgments on YouTube?
@MsJK21 If everybody spend some of their time time on charity than world would be a better place.
@MsJK21 Also, I’m not just pointing a finger at this person. I’m talking about all “artists” who think that extreme excess of materials is alright. Just because the materials are natural doesn’t mean we should use them up for producing crap.
@MsJK21 Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. All that yarn wasted just to make a small square is excess. I don’t care if you want to call that art, I think it idea of using all that yarn for such a creation is absurd. 1000 balls of yarn could be used to knit clothing for the homeless or unfortunate, instead it went into this!
@SKTPSY Do you mean that *she* could use the time and resource for charity instead of her art? Why do you think you can dictate to artists what they should and shouldn’t do? Do you use all your time and resources for charity? If so, good for you!
If not, why not? The answer to that last question will give you the answer to my question of, “why not?”
@MsJK21 Because, you can use this time and resource for a charity.
@ExtremeTextiles you have to understand that YouTube commenters tend to be kids from lower socioeconomic classes. They tend to have trouble understanding anything more complicated than a cheeseburger, yet are quite judgmental. Don’t let it bug ya!