Oh, I do both. Sometimes I make them from scratch, with a needle and thread, because I find sewing relaxing. But sometimes I take the fabric and cut it with a charm, and have ribbons and spangles arranged themselves by charm--that's good when you want to have fun and go slightly mad and do crazy experiments, to try twenty different looks in an hour. It all depends on the sort of mood I'm in.
The woman who taught me how to knit, Mrs Weasley, sometimes knits by charm (so that the needles can be clacking away in the air while she's busy doing other things, like making dinner) but sometimes she prefers to knit by hand. It can be quite soothing, you know. And doing things by hand can actually be easier when you're doing something fiddly, like an intricate pattern with a lot of colour switches, but charms work well when you're doing the same thing row after row after row, like long bits of ribbing. That can get rather boring.
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Date: 2010-06-19 01:52 am (UTC)The woman who taught me how to knit, Mrs Weasley, sometimes knits by charm (so that the needles can be clacking away in the air while she's busy doing other things, like making dinner) but sometimes she prefers to knit by hand. It can be quite soothing, you know. And doing things by hand can actually be easier when you're doing something fiddly, like an intricate pattern with a lot of colour switches, but charms work well when you're doing the same thing row after row after row, like long bits of ribbing. That can get rather boring.