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Great News!  For Jul/Aug 2010 only, in with your Multi Strand rug kit, you'll become the proud owner of a pair of our beautiful Special Edition 600mm L 30mm diameter Big Knit Needles.  Bigger than ever to give more umph to your knitting.

Knit a fabulous quality rug in just 4 hours with our fantastic Multi Strand Knitting Rug Kit, using our yarn winding service with your choice of colour. 

Multi strand knitting involves working with lots of different strands in one stitch and really allows you to play with colour in creating your interior textiles.  And our Multi Strand Knitting Rug Kit makes it easy to get started.

Simply let us know the basic colour combinations you would like to use and we will wind a mix of these colours with their tonal variations, from the wide range in our studio and send the completed wound balls of yarn off to you with your kit.  We use an 80/20 industry standard rug yarn: 80% wool, 20% nylon for strength.  

Rug measures 99cm L x 72cm W. 

Knitting time:  4 hours

Your Kit contains:

1 pair Special Edition 600mm L, 30mm diameter superbly crafted Big Knit Needles (ash hardwood shank with ends fashioned in a variety of beautiful European exotic hardwoods sourced from sustainable forests)

2.5 kilos multi strand rug yarn, 24 strands per one stitch (please email us with your colour preferences when you place your order)

A Postcard Pattern to guide you in making your Multi Strand Knitted Rug

Tips & Abbreviations for working in multi strand knitting

Kit & Yarn re-order information: Big Knitting can become addictive!

N.B. If you already have a pair of our 600mm L Big Knit Needles (non special edition 25mm diameter ones will work too), you will just need to order 2.5kg of our multi strand yarn and a pattern from these sections in our web shop

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 19 August, 2009.