Nålbinding
This is a needle made of bone like those the Vikings used to make socks. I bought it in Oslo in 2017 and since then have been trying, on and off, to make sense of the youtube tutorials - the problem being that all of them show a different way of starting off, and all of them are incomprehensible when you are battling with needle, yarn, thumb and loops. Anyway, just for Macro Mondays, I persevered until I finally understood how to do the "cast on" row of the Oslo stitch. Now I have to work out how to do the rest of it. Crochet is so much easier. I can't get all the needle into the frame as it is four and a half inches long. Here you see the top two and three quarter inches of it.
Nålbinding
This is a needle made of bone like those the Vikings used to make socks. I bought it in Oslo in 2017 and since then have been trying, on and off, to make sense of the youtube tutorials - the problem being that all of them show a different way of starting off, and all of them are incomprehensible when you are battling with needle, yarn, thumb and loops. Anyway, just for Macro Mondays, I persevered until I finally understood how to do the "cast on" row of the Oslo stitch. Now I have to work out how to do the rest of it. Crochet is so much easier. I can't get all the needle into the frame as it is four and a half inches long. Here you see the top two and three quarter inches of it.