Can you knit me something I can wear with pride? I can trade machetes/ or knives
Sure, but I haven't learned how to knit socks yet. I can probably do felted boots with leather bottoms or just felt to fit wooden shoes, scarves and sweaters a huge job, felted possibles bags with leather trim. If you notice the hat Im wearing in my avatar I made that with a wool quilting batt.
I dont exactly weave baskets but I do coil and sew rope into baskets. This is a quiver I made out of sisal. The knitting needles I made out of teak and mahogany.
My mother would always buy one with the little pom pom at the end, which I would probably cut off
I remember hearing that the pom, particularly on the Tams was a symbol of military service.
Some of my survival interests are more historic in nature and include traditional skills of our ancestors. They include fiber procurement like sheep, goat, hair, flax (linen), cotton then processing, which can be a simple as cleaning and carding or as extensive as retting, breaking and combing then spinning and plying the singles, cord and yarns. Weaving, knitting, rope making, net making are all interests along with various knots and sewing. Im still working on plant identification for fiber purposes other than cotton and flax.
I started knitting after I learned how to weave, and continued to knit because it loosened up my fingers and hands so that playing the bass became much easier for me with almost no pain anymore. Two four hour gigs back to back used to tear up my hands pretty good, now its just not a problem anymore.
This is a fishermans sweater I made for myself.
This is some of my homespun.
