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How to knit a basketball net

indoor basketball hoop. – Reading My Tea Leaves – Slow, simple, sustainable living.

I made an indoor basketball hoop. File that under Things I didn’t Think I’d Be Doing This Spring.

I wasn’t sure I’d write about it because it’s cobbled together from things we had at home, which is the most satisfying kind of project to make but a more frustrating kind of project to be presented with by someone else. Apologies in advance because I can’t offer the exact size of the screw or magnet that I used and my net tying instructions are probably wanting in both detail and technique, but I’ll try my best to show what I did.

I’m hoping you all might take this in the spirit it’s intended, which is an opportunity to dig around in your toolbox for washers and screws and to flex your creativity and make something you’ve never considered before. Mostly I’m hoping this might provide a momentary diversion on days desperate for them.

In terms of a basketball hoop specifically, my goal was to make it movable (and removable) because there are players of varying heights in our apartment and more importantly, because there’s no telling how long the interest might last. I also needed it to be not too much of an eyesore and to actually work. (This replaces another iteration involving rolled up paper and blue painters tape. Believe me when I say it was more than aesthetics alone that were improved in this version.)

For a ball, we’re using an oversized pom-pom. While it’s quite sturdy when fitted with a heavy-duty magnet, the hoop isn’t strong enough to support an actual basketball. More importantly, neither are our fragile nerves. We needed something that’s virtually noiseless, for ourselves and for our neighbors. We tried a small blow-up beach ball and a woolen knit ball and both worked but the pom-pom has been perfect.

For the net, I modified the macrame technique that Rose taught me last fall and I’ve done my best to offer simple instructions below.

Materials:

+ The interior ring of a 10-inch wooden embroidery hoop

+ hand drill or electric drill

+ 1 heavy duty magnet hook (the key is having one with a detachable screw hook)

+ screw

+ washers

+ screwdriver

+ cotton butcher’s twine

+ scissors

Directions:

To make the hoop:

+ Begin by drilling a small hole into the side of your embroidery hoop.

+ Unscrew the hook from the magnet. Fit a screw that matches the width and thread of the hook through the hole in the wooden hoop from the interior of the hoop, so you can screw it into the magnet post on the other side. Depending on the size of your magnet and hoop, you might need to use a series of washers, as I did, to help secure a tight fit.

To make the net:

+ Begin by attaching the hoop to a magnetic surface, like a steel apartment door, refrigerator, or radiator.

+ Cut 8 ~4′ lengths of cotton butcher’s twine.

+ Fold each piece of string in half. Place the folded loop over the top of the hoop. Loop the ends of the string through the hole you formed and pull, forming the cast on stitch. Repeat for the remaining strings, placing them at even intervals around the circumference of the hoop.

+ Take the left-hand string hanging from one loop and the right-hand string hanging from the adjacent loop and pull them together to form the point of a triangle, roughly 3 inches down from the hoop. Tie a simple knot by looping both strings through each other.

+ Repeat around the circumference of the hoop until all of the strings are tied.

+ To make a second row, follow the same technique as above. This time, your knots will be forming the bottom point of a diamond. Tie your knots roughly 2 inches down from the previous knot. This will allow your net to begin to taper a bit. Repeat until all of the strings are tied. You’ll now have two rows of knots, forming large diamonds around the hoop.

+ To make a third row, follow the same technique as above. This time, form the bottom point of the diamond about 1.5 inches down from the last row of knots.

+ To finish, tie an additional final knot in the bottom of each set of strings, about an inch directly down from the last knot you tied. (You’re not pairing strings from different sides this time.) Trim any excess length.

Notes!

+ Wooden embroidery hoops are quite thin and I didn’t have any trouble using a small hand drill to make my hole, but because of the relatively fragile wood, take care not to split the hoop with too large a hole.

+ I attached my hoop to our steel apartment door with a magnet, but you could also place on your refrigerator or another magnetic surface. If your home is fitted with metal corner beads (the metal piece used to form sharp corners with drywall) and your magnet is very heavy duty, you might even be able to attach the hoop to a door frame.

And that’s that. If you make one of your own, I’d love to see photos. If you have more ideas for quiet gross motor play for small apartments, I’m ALL ears.

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Basketball, Net Works, and Hazel Meyer – The Fiber Archive

Hey, fiber folks—let’s talk about… sports?

I know that’s kind of coming out of left field (<–sports!) but much of the country is focused on the NBA Finals, which kicked off (<–sports!) last night, and that got me thinking about the intersection between basketball and textiles. From ancient fishermen’s nets to groovy macramé wall hangings, the craft of knotting—with cord, thread, or wire—to make a mesh design has been an invaluable technology in all areas of life, including sports. Exhibit A: the basketball net.

Athletics and fiber arts are stereotypically gendered in opposite ways: boys are taught to push themselves to their athletic limits, while girls (or the “girlish”) stay inside with their needlework¹. But the two worlds—Sport and Craft—actually intertwine in some important ways, both symbolic and material. And some of the people who have allowed me to see that intertwining are the subject of this installment of Making It, New. They are the feminist-craftivist collective called NCAA (New Craft Artists in Action) in Boston, MA, as well as the Canadian mixed-media artist Hazel Meyer.

Before we get to these basketbabes, a brief history of the sport:

Basketball was invented by James Naismith (1861–1939) in Massachusetts in 1891 in an attempt to provide his Phys Ed students with some indoor activity in the midst of a harsh New England winter. He called the game “basket ball” because the first goals were made from peach baskets that he had rigged up at either end of the gymnasium. The sport caught on quickly with American men and women, and the next couple of decades saw some major improvements to the rules and equipment, the most important being the introduction of a textile: the net!

The original peach baskets, like some of the enclosed baskets that followed, made the game somewhat disjointed—after every goal, someone would need to hoist the ball up and out of the basket with a long pole. Finally, some genius struck on idea of making the baskets open-ended. According to some accounts, Naismith enlisted a local carpenter to make an open net from chicken-wire mesh. According to others², a man named Lambert Will, who introduced some of basketball’s key elements, recruited his mother to knit “drapes” below the hoop to show when the ball went through.

Whichever account is accurate, everyone agrees that the game of basketball was vastly improved by the addition of the net. And basketball nets continue to be knotted in this fashion today (even when they are made on a machine in China).

NCAA: Net Works

More than a century after the introduction of the first true basketball net, some rad folks in Boston are building on the textile element of basketball—and doing their neighborhoods a service in the process—by knitting, crocheting, or hand-tying whimsical nets to hang from bare hoops on public courts across the city. These artists, who cheekily go by the name NCAA, call their homemade neon creations “Net Works,” as they are obviously NETted artWORKs. But the phrase also captures the idea of a network, which they create by engaging with locals in these public sporting spaces and with far-flung artists who install similar creations in their own cities.

In celebration of these nets and networks, NCAA published a magazine with instructions for crocheting your own net (and for making a hoop-inspired tank top!) The magazine also highlights other projects and artists whose work engages with sports activities and/or aesthetics, including Hazel Meyer, whose broader work I’ll address in just a sec. Meyer’s contribution to the mag is a hand-drawn comic that recounts her experience learning net knitting in Newfoundland, despite being stood up by a busy fisherman named Randall.

By offering instructions (as Meyer’s comic also does), Net Works invites its readers to participate in the tradition of net-making and also to make it new, make it their own. It provides practical advice for contributing to your neighborhood’s functionality and beautification, and at the same time its yoking together of sports and textiles in a single volume symbolically bridges those seemingly distinct practices. Suddenly, talking about sport and craft together makes so much sense to me—they are both work and play; they value both form and function; they demand both individual skill and broader human networks.

Hazel Meyer: Walls To The Ball

I first learned about artist Hazel Meyer in an essay by poet (and sports enthusiast) Ross Gay, who shot hoops with Meyer during their shared time at an arts residency. I’m interested in some of the same ideas that Gay draws out: the playful variety of Meyer’s work, the ways we see certain bodies through the filter of sports, and the artistry that can arise from repetitive practice in basketball (and, I would add, in the fiber arts).

Even beyond her interest in sports, Meyer seems to be infatuated with hands and their capacity for repetitive labor. In her most recent exhibitions, she includes drawings of hands and alludes to writer Gertrude Stein‘s³ hyper-repetitive style. While Meyer’s work has always included references to exercise and athletics, she came to focus on basketball with her 2011/2012 installation, hilariously titled Walls To The Ball. With this exhibition (the same one Gay writes about), Meyer used her macramé skills to craft basketball nets that stretch all the way to the floor, refusing to let go of the ball. These exaggerated nets allowed the viewer to admire the craftsmanship that, on a regulation hoop, is too high up to really see. Additionally, they slowed down a moment that we tend to take for granted and showed off that game-changing textile technology.

Walls To The Ball also featured a floor-to-ceiling illustration of macramé knots, again calling attention to the fiber artistry in this sports-centric show. To top it all off, Meyer explicitly joined athletics and aesthetics in a series of banners that present comedic virtual encounters between athletes and artists, like one where NBA star Dirk Nowitzki walks into a bar with 20th-century textile artist Anni Albers, and one where fitness mogul (and so much more) Jane Fonda plays a game of h-o-r-s-e with Gertrude Stein. (FYI, that Fonda-Stein match-up is the stuff my dreams are made of.)

So, the bottom line here is twofold: 1) NCAA and Hazel Meyer are doing some super cool stuff and you should check them out! 2) just as The Fiber Archive arose from the belief that “women’s work” is more nuanced and provocative than many give it credit for, I hope to have that same open mind toward activities that are differently gendered, like the wild world of sports. Admittedly, my own lifestyle is more “nothin’ but knit” than “nothin’ but net.” But I learned this week that there are knots that mark the overlapping histories of these practices and I think I’ll look differently at the networks formed not only in my own fiber community but in other (often gendered) modes of recreation.

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NOTES
1 See my earlier post about the gender of knitting, and also stay tuned for more posts on people who push those boundaries.

2 Disclaimer: many of these “others” are direct descendants of Lambert Will, seeking acknowledgement of their ancestor’s contributions. Although most basketball fans still consider Naismith the true inventor of the game, the Will contingent emerged with the publication of Frank Basloe’s I Grew Up With Basketball in 1952, which credits Will with the netting idea. The recent discovery of some of Naismith’s journals and correspondence, including letters from Will, has fueled debate about basketball’s true origins.

“Secondary school No. 1 of the Department of Education

Akimat of the Taranovsky District”

Creative project

“Knitting basketball mesh for the basketball ring”

was performed by a student of grade 8 of secondary school No. 1

9000 Head teacher of technology

2nd category Moser V.V.

Taranovskoye 2016

Introduction………………………………………………………………………3

1. Goals and objectives of the project……………………………………………………….4

2. Tools and materials…………………………………… ……………..5

3. Safety precautions…………………………………………………….6

4. Manufacturing technology …………………… ……………………….7-16

5. Economic calculation…………………………………………………..17

Conclusion……………… ………………………………………………….17

Source …………………………………………………………………… 17

INTRODUCTION

Spring has come and soon summer will come, the desire to go outside and play in the fresh air. We have a playground in our yard where you can hold sports on the site there is a pole with a basketball hoop, but without a net, and I decided to tie the net to make it look like a real basketball hoop. And the guys and I could arrange competitions not only from our own yard, but also invite teams from neighboring yards to hold the match.

Goals and objectives of the project

The goal of the creative project is to create a product that meets my needs, represents my knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired in the process of learning at technology lessons.

Tasks of the project:

1. Tie a basketball net

2. Improve the skills and techniques of work acquired in technology lessons.

3. Get more knowledge about different types of needlework.

4. Assess the work done.

Tools and materials

To make the product, I will need

Lessitry rope 20 meters
90 mm (5 pcs.)
hammer, KOBILO, COBEL, PICALICE 9032 , tape measure, pencil
Board 30 x 150 x 300

Safety

When working with cutting, stabbing tools, you should follow the safety rules when sawing wood. It is forbidden to swing a hacksaw, make a file carefully without pulling the hacksaw, after sawing put the hacksaw into the tray, when working with scissors, do not point the sharp ends towards the person, cut carefully without pulling tool. When working with a hammer and chisel, follow the rules for cutting metal, hit the hammer exactly on the chisel, when knitting according to the pattern, be careful and not be distracted, since the edges of the nails are sharp and there is a possibility of cuts, scratches on the hands, and damage to the material.

Product manufacturing technology

To knit a basketball basket, you need to make a pattern.

Template is made from board and nails. We take a board 30mm thick, 150mm wide, sawed off 300mm long. (fig. 1)

fig. 1.

Mark the nails on the prepared board.

After marking, we take the nails and with the help of a hammer and chisel we separate the hats (fig. 2), after we process the nails with a file and hammer them according to the markup (fig. 3).

fig. 2.

fig. 3.

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We take the clothesline, unwind it, measure it with a tape measure 160 mm and cut it off with scissors (Fig. 4) we make 12 such pieces. (fig. 5)

fig. 4

fig. 5

We start knitting a basketball basket, take a template, fold the rope in half, put it between two nails and tie it with a simple knot, we do this with 12 segments (Fig. 6)

fig. 6

fig. 7

We lay the connected segments and make the binding between the two segments (Fig. 7), (Fig. 8), (Fig. 9), (Fig. 10).

fig. 8

fig. 9

fig. 10

This is how it should turn out (fig. 11)

fig. 11

Now connect the ends of the rope (fig.12)

fig. 12

fig.13

We bind the second row of the mesh (fig. 13)

fig. 14

Bonded mesh (fig.14)

fig.15

We put the tied mesh on the ring (Fig. 15)

Economic calculation

Clothesline 1 pc.
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How to knit a basketball net

indoor basketball hoop. – Reading My Tea Leaves – Slow, simple, sustainable living.

Materials:

Directions:

Notes!

Basketball, Net Works, and Hazel Meyer – The Fiber Archive

NCAA: Net Works

Hazel Meyer: Walls To The Ball

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