French Knitting! Of Course!

I came up with an interesting idea that I thought could work well as detailing. I remember when I was little back in primary school making a "Tomboy" tube out of a used toilet roll and some paddle pop sticks and weaving wool around each stick until it slowly created a knitted tube inside the used toilet roll.

I researched on the internet and its actually called a "French Knit". Very simple to do and decided to do a bit of looking around at different wools to use..

I bought normal wool, fluffy wool, glittery wool and feathery wool.

I started some knitting but i was not happy with the effect. Normal wool was too fine and and the tubes were not structured enough. Like in the photo on the right side. The knitting is quite loose and flat.

All of the fluffy wools were ok but you could not see any of the knitting detailing and just looked like something a cat would like to play with.

Here are some examples..