Showing posts with label knitting with moroccan cactus silk thread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting with moroccan cactus silk thread. Show all posts

Saturday 28 September 2013

Knitting with silk thread

Today I search the web for some information how to knit cactus silk thread into a pulli or other kind of project. I found nothing at all. But I found hiw to knit silk thread with. It's an awsome project. I tried to knit my royal blue cactus silk and -as I said in my first note - it was very difficult. The cactus silk is as slippery as the silkworm-silk, and the stitches drop anytime. It sometimes tangled. So the cactus silk is very similar to the silk. 

But the result is worth the suffering. If I ever finish my pulli I'll share you the photo.

I show you some of the wonderful things made of silk (unfortunately not by me):