ILX Knitting

-a cabled purse we're doing in class. I love cable and what to jump on a sweater next.

-the ubiquitous Booga bag made with Kureyon. This will be my first felted piece.

I'm definitely ready to move on from purses and scarves to a real garment.

I've never done a cable - are they not incredibly tricky with all those special needles and all?

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTcleo.html

I started it forever ago but quit after one boob.

Roffle! Tweeness! (best thing ever, obviously)

I need to learn how to knit again, I used to love it when I was younger. My mum keeps making me lovely jumpers and cardies and I wish I could do so myself.

legwarmers
baby booties
warm ear cover things to use on a bike helmet

I'd love to knit a sweet little hat with 1/2 ear flaps. I need to find a good recipe. Besides knitty.com, where does everyone get their recipes from?

So far cabling has been much easier than I thought. The basic concept is easy though patterns themselves can get tricky. I think if you can get good at reading charts you'll be okay. (special needles = just any kind of needle which you use to hold stitches on)

I should take pictures later of the two purses I'm making.

I am also doing a sweater from Stitch n Bitch Nation, but instead of making a flower with felted yarn, I am making a turntable.

I want both these sweaters done by March.

I made the Spider Wen capelet from SNBN last weekend.

I ripped out a sweater I made but never sewed together and am making a blanket from it.

I started a little ballet wrap, that went quickly but I never got around to knitting the 2nd sleeve.

I made striped knee high socks, and with the leftover yarn I started a doll from the Knitted Babes book.

And I have about ten different colors of Cotton Classic to make the rock star dolls, but only made a body for one so far.

awesome. my teacher suggesed felted flowers for the booga bag I'm making but I'm just not flowery. I've been trying to think of some other thing to attach to it. I was thinking maybe a skull and bones.

R/Z have you ever done illusion knitting? what are your favorite yarns? I have some thick Rowan yarn that I want to do something with, just don't know what yet. It's really nice but it was $16 a skein so I don't want to waste it.

I like Lorna's Laces Shepard Sport for sock yarn SO SOFT SO PRETTY

I broke a bamboo dpn this month.

HOLY X-POST!

Here are my current WIPs. There are many bags as gifts in my future. .

The booga bag:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/booga1.jpg

knitted in the round with Noro Kureyon. It's really simple, just 64 rows of garter stitch. I think I must have picked up some stitches or I just knit too loose b/c it seems to big. The pattern calls for an i-cord handle. If I like it when it's felted I might do a shorter one with bamboo handles.

the cable bag:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/cable_bag1.jpg

Also knitted in the round with Lamb's Pride Bulky. Simple cable on the long sides and seed stitch on the sides. Just missing handles and lining now.

I love single-ply yarn.

I have a set of Denise; I like them a lot.

bbut, teeny, you could be doing so much baby knitting!

I want to a cabled sweater next.

the only thing that doesnt appeal to me about knitting is huge stitches. i like my clothes to be really tightly stitched. is this possible with knitting? a pain in the ass? can you knit with cashmere?

How big your stitches are depends on your yarn, needle size, and how tightly you knit. If you're knitting to gauge, your stitches should be fairly tight.

Cashmere is expensive. I have priced some of the patterns in some of the higher end magazines, and they would run you $700-900 in yarn.

I knit English (at least I think I do--I carry the yarn in my right hand. Isn't that English?) and suspect I will stick with that, as I don't knit so much that I fear injury and I don't much care about slowness.

Does anyone here do the mysterious "Combination" knitting?

between computering and my other needle activities I have a lot of problems with pains in my elbow/shoulders. I can only knit for a couple of hours at a stretch before I have to rest. :(

since continental trips me up as it is I don't want to even think about combination. . .

Mrs. L was asking.

I also knitted two socks and am starting on a third from a new pattern written by a friend, except that's on pause whilst I try and crank though the end of the jumper. Sock yarn = Opal sock yarn - I've so far got two small ankle socks from it and am making another, more for practice than desire to wear them RLY.

Any ideas on how to use up 10 balls of Rowan Linen Drape? (Liberty sale last summer, arf) - in a rather bright blue...

I also have looooads of various acrylic dk left over form present making that I was thinking of making into a father dougal style tanktop. HOWEVER - I'm a bit fat giffer and fear the bosom area just NOT working, so I want to look into some, sigh, real actual designing skills so it fits NICELY... I dunno.

I ALSO have to knit thank you presents for some of my chums who have been SCAMPS :)

And a knitted tea cosy. For a wedding present. Yaaaaaay for knitting!

Some people swear by Brown Sheep but I'm not too crazy about it. Maybe Cascade 220?

I will try and find a link to the useful yarn-finder site I've used in the past. . .

http://www.yarndex.com/

I don't have a pattern yet as we're going to design it with the instructors in class. I just did a bag in brown sheep and liked it but I don't know about a sweater. I was also thinking Cascade 200. hmm.

My booga bag is felted and both it and the cable-y tote I just did in class are blocked and finished. I need to get batteries for my camera to take pictures.

I think I really like felting(fulling).

Beth, when your Mom's better you can give her the scarf you made.

http://static.flickr.com/36/102416231_21a1585393.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/39/102416236_f2eab0e7b2.jpg

I taught myself the basics from a book - enought to make hats and scarves. Then I signed up for classes at my LYS. I would also look into local knitting groups.

It got ultra-cold here last week, so I got out my favorite knitted thing from last year - it started as a sort of cowl, just a tube basically knit from 3 skeins of Jewelbox Amethyst (velvety black with bright purple/teal/jade ribbon) on an 8 mm 32" circular. It made a tube about 2.5 foot tall and about the same in diameter to start with. After a few days, it stretched out into a long circular scarf that works well looped about and twisted and is ever so warm and soft.

http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/

I taught myself with help from teh internets!

Let me see if I can find the easy casting on page I used (I find most of them very confusing).

Here it is:

http://www.theyarnco.com/cast_on.php

but mossy green with brighter accents.

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/sock%20-%20left%20foot.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/sock%20-%20right%20foot.jpg
CLUB FOOT HAHAHA

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/socks%20-%20both%20feet.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/socks%20-%20by%20themselves.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/socks2.jpg

alright picture time:

here's my finished felted bag
http://askforjanice.com/photos/booga.jpg

my cable-y tote:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/cable_tote.jpg
It came out a bit floppy. Maybe I should line it.

The start of the knitty sweater I'm making:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitty_sweater.jpg
The color's more rust than it looks here. I didn't like it at first but it's growing on me.

Lastly, in the class I'm starting tonight we're going to make cardigans and these are the yarns I picked:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/sweater_yarns.jpg
ghastly! I realize I have absolutely no fashion sense as I always go for the same colors. Ugh. I'll probably give this one to my grandmother.

I know nothing about Linen. Or socks. why am I here??

I have cross-stitched in the past. I do not, currently.

This is a weeny pictue of the quilt block: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/322TulipCircle.jpg

beth, I think adding a third color might just save my sweater. I'll have to wait until tonight when we work out our patterns to make sure I'm not making a nightmare for myself in terms of matching up pieces.

all my craft books!

I think for me it's more an inspiration than one I'd buy anything at (except for yarns maybe). When I see something cool someone else has made I don't want to buy it I want to make something like it too.

I'm going to have to slow down. I'm getting a red sore patch on the finger that holds back the wool.

However, TINY jumpers, I can do! I made this card for a friend who I thought could do with some CHEERING UP.

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/hi_dere.jpg

http://www.curiousyarns.co.uk/

PLUG

I have to think up something else to knit. There are only so many scarves one needs.

So, is bamboo RLY better than aluminium for dpns? I got all my needles secondhand in a big bundle from eBay and charity shops and have happily knit a cardigan on metal needles (I say 'happily', it's crap) and have done the jumper on PLASTIC - one needle SNAPPED! Sheesh.

and metal ones don't break when you step on them :(

Ok guys, I need a new knitting project to start...any cool suggestions? I have a big skein of fluffy, thick dark grey stuff, and a little ball of tiny pink yarn.

http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/sweater_back.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/49/106769308_829571afbd.jpg?v=0

hope that works... not that you can see the cable or anything. It's unblocked and just put together, not sewed up or owt.

I can make out the cable! I never block. I probably should.

Hemhem.

http://www.martingale-pub.com/Information/Corrections/Aug%203.jpg

This is my SEWN UP JUMPER pre-blocking...

http://static.flickr.com/43/111918169_17de1cec4a_m.jpg
jumper

http://static.flickr.com/46/111918143_b5e316371f_m.jpg
cable

http://static.flickr.com/51/111918146_848bcf2c0e_m.jpg
modelled by bear

I'm almost done with the cardigan I've been making. I need to finish it by Saturday so I can give it to my mom for her b-day.

I've also done another felted bag since I last posted here. On my personal to do list is to get all my FPs and UFOs up on flicker.

knitty knitty knitty

I have about three unfinsihed socks going.

Roxy, I made the striped knee socks in the first Stitch N Bitch. I couldn't find the yarn they used, or the elastic thread, so I used Dale Baby Ull and plain white elastic thread, and they turned out good.

I am making a baby blanket for my assistnat manager, and oh it's taking so long, and the baby is due in tow months. I made a cotton bib that was in the new book One Skein, and it was so quick and cute!

The pattern I've used for this cardigan is pretty crappy but otherwise I've found patterns pretty easy.

I hope the more experienced I become I will be able to start writing my own.

http://static.flickr.com/56/138967814_22b340e4a3.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/44/138967786_2bfd0264dd.jpg?v=0

Pattern is peasy.

Me WEARING fully blocked jumper!

http://static.flickr.com/45/131855436_0ec53acfce.jpg

Knitted garter stitch headband (I'd insult yr intelligence by giving you a pattern!)

http://static.flickr.com/48/131245187_072f95c17f.jpg

Hat made using Rowan's WOOL COTTON, it's LOVELY. Made up the pattern cos... well, couldn't be arsed to find one! It's lovely and comfy but I would have preferred to go down a needle size or two I think.

http://static.flickr.com/47/131245179_fbaf696a59.jpg

I should bust out some headbands.

Soon to be started are some BOOTEES AWWWW and I want to make the fair isle cardigan from the Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino 1 book.

Soon to be started are some BOOTEES AWWWW and I want to make the fair isle cardigan from the Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino 1 book.

xpost - thanks! Make some headbands, they're grebt - this headband has now been donated to a better home. Here is the pattern. Cast on 13. Knit to the size of YORE HEAD. Cast off! Sew ends together. Bish bash bosh. The yarn is some specially dyed stripey sock yarn a friend made for me at http://www.curiousyarns.co.uk

I have hardly any time for it right now, but I've been fooling around with the Himalayan Yarn recycled silk yarn. I wanted to knit a shell, but the size 10 needles I started on first gave me too dense a knit, like a kevlar bulletproof vest, and the 13's made it too loose, so a nipple was gonna poke out the holes if I didn't wear a bra. Not good. Tonight I'm going to try 11's.

I still have to assemble my cardigan. lazy.

almost finished the Namaste bag from Knitty. fun bus knitting.

Next project is a hat, to learn shaping and whatnot. It's going to hit 100F here today, so it seems a bit silly!

Current project: finishing a scarf with some fancy Italian fiber for my mother for Mother's Day (yes, I'm a bit behind...).

I also crochet and cross-stitch some but I am an idiot about sewing.

From upthread:
I'm ashamed every time I open the cabinet where all my partially finished and not-even-started projects are stored.

I am so with you but I think it's inevitable...

Unravelled the ENTIRE BACK, and sourced a copy of Rowan 31, which contains a lot of linen drape patterns, and am making a very simple sleeveless top. I am halfway up the back now, going a lot slower cos I haven't been sitting down to knit as much. Slightly worried that the re-used yarn that I didn't bother soaking/unkinking (will do this at blocking stage yesno?) looks messy.

Issue: it starts off by knitting a long thing stretch of 1x1 ribbing to 42cm or so - then the idea is you pick up stitches horizontally and go upwards, making a horizontal ribbed border. My problem is that to pick up the correct amount of stitches for the jumper, I had to evenly miss every 4 sts, and where I have missed a stitch it looks really OBVIOUS to me. Do you think blocking would make this look a little better?

Once I finish the bl00dy Linen Drape I have to cast on for various other bigger babby knitting bits and bobs - I love the Debbie Bliss stripey baby jumper but am aph343d if I do it in white and red stripes that the child will be a fan of the White Stripes and I couldn't bear that responsibility.

And I wish I knew what slip stitching might be :)

I think your unraveled yarn will be fine w/out washing first. I never do (and I do a lot of unraveling.)

Wot is this amigurumi lark about? Crocheting cute things?

I think I am going to crochet here soon b/c I want to make myself a mini-granny square messenger bag. (squares on bag constructed of fabric, with my new sewing machine!)

but surely you can knit little animals stuff too. (I just love knitting over crocheting obv.)

I'm actually making a series of wristbands, which I have never really been interested in until I starting playing the bass with a pick instead of my fingers. Causes me to get this gross bruise/blister on the inside of my wrist, therefore I am making a dazzling array of wristbands (so easy and fast to make! I love cranking them out) to take on tour with me (so that there is one to match every outfit).

I've seen little knit animals, so I know it's possible. That would be a far better use of my energy than a scarf, but the mr. is keen to have something I made. The hat's for a class, and may end up becoming a bag or something.

I've been saying I want to get together a knitting group forever but it hasn't become reality yet.

I'll have time and skills to get together after the class ends (end of June).

http://static.flickr.com/78/167695667_4f283edf7b.jpg

What I have learnt: when there is something weighty on the needles, bamboo needles BEND. For crying out loud! Not only are they NOT the size they CLAIM to be, they effin' bend! I'm not using bamboo needles for any more large projects after this, I'll stick to plastic for straight needles and bamboo for dpns.

I haven't had any experience with bamboos bending. and I did my cardigan with bulky yarn on straight 10-1/2s. I generally prefer using circular needles though even when not knitting in the round. It alleviates pressure on your wrists.

I'm almost done with the yoga bag. then I must assemble the cardigan, then. . .new project!

Bamboo 10mm needles!? I've never seen them that big, but that's so thick I would HOPE they wouldn't bend :)

I am pondering attempting some yoga - I have been told whilst doing weights that my back isn't very subtle - I'm scared of classes though. Need to SUCK IT UP! I don't fancy investing in anything yet until I've given it a go though!

Miffy = wubbly cartoon wabbit from er - Finland is it? Nintje in whatever original language it is. Nath - I have a Miffy crossstich kit that I bought about two years ago and have never even opened yet!

x post - problem with circs I have found is that the stitches on the cable jog on the join or shrink to size of cable so you end up YANKING them back onto needle and gets all tense. AND you can't shove the needle under your arm, not that I knit that way very often (and especially not on these bloody bendy bamboos) but sometimes I do.

haha, no 10-1/2 US I should've specified. I think that's about 8mm. Yeah I use Clover too but thus far haven't had any trouble with them.

What do you guys use for cable needles? I've discovered that I hate cable needles and end up using a dpn or stitch holder or something.

http://www.thewoolshack.com/images/products/131.jpg

I want to do a more intricate cable pattern soon though as I love them.

http://www.debbieblissonline.com/images/books/bc/bc_3_lg.jpg

I want to do more cables but sweaters aren't that practical for me. must find other patterns.

http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/squirrel_in_sweater_part_tr_1.jpg

I want to make a cable sweater for Ophelia one day. Or something. Anything. *sigh*

Don't worry about the h. ;-)

I began a cool scarf when my MIL (who taught me to knit) was here, but she went home and of course I screwed it up two or three days later... at least I think I did. She won't be back until August. Possibly I should try to finish one of the other knitting or crocheting projects that I have lying around unfinished.

One stitch at a time. I like that.

Oh, heh. Yeah, I know how it goes. "How cute, I'll buy it." and then you just leave it unopened or even half-finished lying around.

Miffy is Nijntje. It's, uh, Dutch, I think... I just looked it up on wikipedia. ROFL, Nijntje refers to Konijntje (little rabbit). I'm so dumb.

Anyhow, I AM going to buy some needles (knit and crochet) and some wool tomorrow. WOOPEEDEEWOOP.

I ordered some cheap yarn off of Knit Picks to try and make this mini-felted bag with a charted pattern. I wanted to make one for myself to judge how quick/cheap/easy it would be to make three more for my nieces' xmas presents. Well, that cheap yarn is cheap. Feels like shit, super-scratchy and I stupidly didn't take the yarn weight/pattern gauge into account when buying it. I was just looking for felt-ability. gah. Major suxor. I'm going to just have to go and buy some Lamb's Pride super bulky even though it's about $3 more per skien. it's just so soft.

I discovered when I took my first class, after already knitting two scarves and (almost) a hat, that I was making my knit stitches twisted - knitting through the back of the stitch rather than the front. So much for book learnin'!

but the thread sort of *untangles* after a while

Hmm, maybe you're not casting on firmly/correctly?

xpost That's great advice in re to asking the shopkeeper! I'll def ask her where i can take a course as well!

Miss Misery, up for an Austin Knit Up next week? :)

i highly recommend knitting them for summer, as you won't have a big pile of wool on your lap. also, one can crank them out, making for wonderful presents (it's especially fun to give your male friends the emasculating pink and purple ones).

http://www.masondixonknitting.com/archives/2006_06.html

(scroll down to the end to see what they look like)

also, they're the best dish cloths ever. thick! absorbent! beautiful!

Are you done with your class patita? I'll drop you an email.

http://static.flickr.com/70/192803952_37bdff5d4d_m.jpg

Started on a shawl (for Ophelia). I'm doing alright. Yes, I know I just jinxed it by saying that.

I'm enrolling in a course! Eeep! My husband thinks it's a great idea to enroll in a course instead of huffing and puffing through a book. I guess so. Fwok, I hope they let me continue in English style. :-) Wish me luck. I'll probably quit after three lessons, crying that I'm a total loser.

I do have some spectacular yarn set aside along with some fancy sock patterns, but unfortunately time and lack of constant access to knitting help has stopped me from getting going on them.

I have made socks top-down before, and it's been OK, I'm not too good with the dpns though, I can still get that annoying ladder no matter how tightly I pull the yarn - I can get around it by knitting an extra stitch each time so the join is "jogged" and thus not obvious, but it feels like cheating and also gets a bit confusing when you start doing shapings. My advice is just start doing them, maybe with a DK weight and larger needles if it's yr first go :)

My attempt at a shawl for Ophelia. Tell me it ain't that bad...

I've finished a yoga mat bag recently and am near finishing a stranded knitting bag to felt, maybe. I'll try to post pictures when they are presentable.

I finished one toe-up in ANGORA, but am sort of too lazy to start the other one? Plus, I am not super hot on the technique for making heels and toes.

I bought all this Euroflax Linen to make handtowels, but I hvae had to go down two sizes for it took okay. Maybe I should wash a swatch first to see if the yarn plumps up a bit.

http://static.flickr.com/86/210019011_d1a1969eaf.jpg

currently TRYING a go at a baby hat (?). harumph.

Mason Dixon Knitting is a super book with really neat patterns. It's not really instructive or a great reference source (i.e. "What the hell does 'psso' mean?"), but great nonetheless.

I bought a bunch of yarn for washcloths and dishcloths, and, oh I don't like how loose the dishcloth is knitting, even with going down two size from the recommended one in the pattern.

Ooh! The log cabin!

I really enjoy that book, but who wants to knit themselves lingerie?

Huh. I haven't had a problem with the loose dishcloths. Did you use the Peaches and Cream? I've found the cotton does shrink down a lot after washing and drying.

Here's a (sad) before and after shot of a finished and in-process dishcloth using the Peaches and Cream. It is totally disconcerting while knitting. It's all loopy and uneven, but the dryer remedies it pretty well.

http://static.flickr.com/78/211501222_3b1e0902c9.jpg?v=0

MORAL OF STORY: buy yarn that YOU LIKE. do not buy yarn that is JUST CHEAP and you've heard it's good. Groooooooooo.

This is the only time I advocate using a cheapo yarn, as it's for completely utilitarian purposes. It's all cotton and makes the best quality dishcloths imaginable, I think. It fades really nicely too! (That's the same pink above - one on the left has been washed a billion times).

For now I'm working on a diagonal rib scarf as a gift for someone, come giftgiving season. I've signed up for a class to make animal hats and am very, very excited (too bad it doesn't start until October)!

I think their intials on a towel would be great! They'd eat that shit up!

Stockinette sstitch as wide as you want and the as long as you want. Do a few rows of a contrasting stitch near the top and bottom for intrest. Initals in the middle. voila!

I'm much slower at cross stitching. I think I lack fine motor skills.

Hmm, stockinette stitch.... It won't curl up too much? I could do some seed stitching at the ends. That would be fun! I've never knit a towel before. Wool is probably a bad idea.

Speaking of stitching, I want to get into this, but clearly, not this weekend.

http://www.woolandhoop.com/crewel.html

(PSSS - thanks for the ideas!)

HURRAH! a knitted heart

I enrolled in a knitting course!

I can now also decrease and increase! I know when people talk about SSK and such. HURRAH! Next up? Probably trying out different ways to cast on.

I would still like to learn continental style. I cast on the same way as when I first started but I know a couple of methods for when you're adding on in the middle of a row.

I need to upload my pictures of the instarsia(?) I've been doing.

What are (dis)advantages of continental style? I actually DON'T do it! Har har funny as I'm from zee mainland. heh.

the advantage to continental that I'm interested in is supposedly it is easier on your shoulder/arm. With English style you're kind of throwing the yarn over the needled with your right hand (assuming yr right hand) so that's a lot of repetitive movement. Cont. is also supposed to be quicker.

As for intarsia, have you used this website? It's the best for whatever you like into an intarsia pattern!

http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/

It helped me create this (on a dare -- for a led zeppelin loving friend):

http://static.flickr.com/34/73087390_c144456db0.jpg?v=0

I made a Photoshop file the size of the stitch area I had (e.g. 60 pixels by 30pixels) and then did my design. voila, pattern!

I am about halfway done with the towel, and am sort of wishing that I had made a seed stitch border width-wise in addition to the inch or so of seed stitch I have at the bottom, length-wise. It's curling up a bit on the sides, so blocking it probably would help immensely. But, I've never blocked something that may get washed. Does the form hold after washing? Or does it need to be ironed every time?

Oh, and my mom was *so* touched that she's getting something hand made, albeit late. My dad was like, "Oh, that sounds nice."

My knitting time varies. Lately I've been stressed out so the time is upped to an hour or more per day. Some days I have no time & other days I'll sneak 10-30 minutes in.

I'm taking the Handmaiden's advice, and am going to attempt to embroider their initials on the towel, but having never done that on a knitted item, I'm afraid it may turn out like a 2nd grade art project.

and am going to attempt to embroider their initials on the towel, but having never done that on a knitted item,

haha I meant knit in with another color. But I have heard of embrodiering on knitting so that should work too.

maybe i should try continental knitting. hmmmmmm

Big yarn screw up: in looking for the right stuff for a baby blanket, I accidentally grabbed handwash only. Is it wrong to think I can knit it up, wash it a few times and see what happens (i.e. how badly can the washing machine mangle it)? Or should I use it for something else (for me!) and get machine washable yarn for the blanket?

The stuff is so damned soft! Blue Sky Alpaca cotton, yum.

The bonnet however is turning out much too big as I misread the pattern. It'll be MY bonnet (in super cutesy pink roffle) instead of O's.

I tried knitting continental but,even though it was SUPERfast, it was also rather to lose a stitch. I kept losing it or sliding it over to the right needle before I knitted it. But I could see how it's much MUCH faster than English knitting. Only, I'm having too hard a time learning it (says I who only tried for 15 minutes). Maybe I should use another needle than a metal one? Would that solve it?

when I first started knitting (eng) my stitches looked like ass but now all is tight and neat. i'm sure sloppy continental stitches will tighten up as well.

patitia, wash yr swatch first and see what happens.

I'm tempted to make a triangular shawl. Maybe I should just finish my other things first...

I tried to teach me continental knitting on my hols in France - knit stitches only - it was OK, but I actually spent most of my time playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney instead!

Next projects I want to do are:

- teacosy!
- baby things!
- holder for my DS with Phoenix Wright pattern (Molly I used knitpro to get me a GRAPH!)
- mp3 player "cozy" - I actually want to do the crocheted one that is in - sigh - "The Happy Hooker" - but that involves getting clear plastic and specialist punches to make holes and I have NO CLUE where to get this sort of crafty stuff from as I am a BAD creative person apparently :(
- a cardigan!

I have made a whole TWO garments now, on BOTH occasions they have been solely to use up wool bought in bulk in sales, so this time I am going to find a pattern I love, buy the yarn and HANG THE COST.

Mock my lack of skillz! This is the hoodie for Ophelia I just finished. Wot wuz I thinking when I started it? Did I think she had the head the size of an elephant? Even for me it's so ROOMIE. Now I'll be sporting a PINK bonnet. roffle. A good punishment for making such a XL misjudgment.

Is it just me or when it comes to colourwork my fingers seem to increase in size so I have even fatter hands than the fattest handest?

http://oma57.tripod.com/cleobag.html

Patita and I had knitting fap for 2 last night! very fun.

Please say something inspiring about knitting to get me going again!

Here's the hat I mentioned I'll be doing for my brother:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/PATTtopi.html

I've been saving plastic bags in hopes of knitting them into utility totes or something. Maybe with those directions I'll actually have a go!

here's another bag pattern i found:

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/cr_needle_arts/article/0,2025,DIY_13768_3059465,00.html

i saw this pattern in a book at michael's, and i think it calls for heavy-duty bags, not your wealking-run-of-the-mill grocery store bags.

my course is going ok. i mean, fuck it, it's just the second week so nothing much could have gone wrong, i guess. we already learned a different way to cast on (which i already forgot after three days... i think). i do know how to do "elastic casting" (literal translation) which is basically those *elastic* things around a sweater (arms for example).

it's really like a big ole knit-fap.

http://www.iknit.org.uk/iknitlondonshop.html

I Knit London isn’t just a shop...we are pleased to bring you a place to relax after work, chill out, have a drink and a chat and work on your latest project without distraction.

My newest planned project though is actually crochet - I found a crocheted Katamari Prince so ordered the pattern through Etsy but it hasn't arrived yet... WHERE IS IT!

As for knitting, I am working myself up to dpns again - I find them an infernal pain and still get those ridiculous ladders unless I jog stitches along each "round", and that makes it difficult to keep count which is IMPORTANT :) But since I've learnt the magic how to knit socks flat technique (well, I learnt it to make miniature sock decorations), perhaps I don't need the dpns. I bought that book, Last Minute Knitted Gifts and it's OBSESSED with doing everything in the round. This seems to be a much bigger "thing" in the US than it is in the UK!

Nath - I highly recommend eBay for needles! Loads of people tend to sell bunches of various needles there and they're cheap enough not to be rip-offs - I got most of my needles in one go and only ever need to get the odd one or two extra (don't really 'do' the circs) :)

This morning I woke up with the most horrendous pain in my wrist. :-( I think I knitted a bit too much last night. It's not only because of knitting but also cause of Ophelia. I'll need to cut down the amount of knitting I do. :-(

http://static.flickr.com/93/243101195_1db15d2563.jpg?v=0

I'm jealous of all your drinking, gooe-y dessert eating old lady knitting resources.

knitting in the round is awesome.

molly, keep us updated on any changes you make to the pattern. I'd like to try it after I finish the baby blanket (14 rows down, only a few hundred more to go)!

K, are we on for Sun? Should I call on Sat?

Nath, what do you feel you need to know more ways for? Besides the standard 'knit-on' method the only other one I know is the thumb-thing where you cast on more in the middle of a row or something. I've made scarves, (bad) hats, all kinds of purses and sweaters and never needed anything else. (well I just used a provisional cast on for socks so I guess that counts too - basically you just crochet a chain and then knit your first row into it. kind of awkward but allows you to rip out the chain later.)

My special pattern arrived. Now Sarah go to wool shop!

I think somewhere way upthread someone linked to the little Web videos? I'm almost positive there is an example of long tail cast on there. That site is where I learned to wrangle double-points, but I have not yet caught the sock bug, so dpns are limited to finishing of hats knitted 3/4 of the way in the round.

Please note that I have not picked up needles for MONTHS! WTF is wrong with me?

http://www.eunomia.de/catalog/images/prkn/k6fapr.jpg

but it's pink, white, and orange

I know BUST has some A.O.K. stuff in it from time to time, but I'm fairly disappointed. Where are all the cool knitting magazines?

This has also led me to troll the used bookstores in my neighborhood, picking up craft books from the 60s and 70s. I inherited a bunch of my grandmother's pattern books from the 60s, and they're wonderful!

All other knitting magazines hurt, quite a lot.

In re to casting on: I'm intrigued to know how you girls do it. The simple cast on method I learned apparently shouldn't be used AT ALL in our course. We learned the thumb method (but seemed a bit more complex) and it does look neato, it's also rather... complex for me and my dumb slow working brain. :-(

Simply Knitting is a decent mag, they do a good job of introducing new stitches and explaining what's going on. Not all of the patterns are the most appealing, but they explain the technique well. One recent one was great for explaining ruffles and how to make & attach a fancy border. Plus they give away some little free thing that takes the sting out of spending $9. I've found them in Borders and Bookstop.

knit1, the new Vogue mag, is to be avoided unless you only use Lion Brand Yarn (or need a good laugh). The last issue was "art based" and involved knitted shorts with built in braces/suspenders (for women), and a pattern for knitted boxer shorts. If you ever need a pattern guide for a great big guitar sweater, it's the place to go.

I'll second the vote for Interweave as not tacky. Knitty.com is fab!

I saw Simply Knitting last night, but I didn't open up the big plastic bag it came in. Knitty.com is pretty great, and I've picked up some fun ideas off of crafster.org, but I haven't been back there in a while. Oh god, I did see Knit1 and screamed in terror at the awful patterns. Ben thinks I should start a magazine called "Knitster." I just want to find something fun! And hip! Is that too much to ask?

That being said, this fall edition of Vogue Knitting is pretty nice! There's a lovely fitted Fair Isle sweater I may attempt.

You can't really see them too well, but they were in fact used for rock music purposes.

using knitting needles as drumsticks is way more punk than anything published in a monograph!

I've never tried this but I might try using waste canvas - the kind that anchors your stitches but then can be torn away when you're done.

Scroll down for the embrodiery part (basically they say chain stitch.)

Also, I managed to do it a bit wrong in my project (for my knitting course). Please tell me that you girls also fucked up in the beginning. :-)

I totally fucked up the embroidery last night, Nathalie! It's par for the course, really.

I couldn't get the video tutorial on that webpage, but now I will research the chain stitch, as what my Reader's Digest book had me doing boggled my feeble mind. I have some junk pieces laying about the apartment, that I really ought to practice on. Thing is, the fams is coming down tomorrow and I'm not done with that, nor am I done with the plastic bag... bag for my sister.

Chain stitch (I think) - Use double strands of floss (or even four, six etc for extra thick) and after you do a stitch come up for the next one splitting the strands of the previous stitch. Does that sort of make sense? the stitches will begin to resemble the links of a chain.

Do they make large double pointed needles? I have to make i-cords for the bag's straps, and just realized this could be a problem now.

Is there an ILX Sewing thread? I may be forced to start one as I got a GLORIOUS sewing machine for my birthday! It's a Baby Lock, and nothing too fancy. I'm signed up for 4 sewing classes over the next month and I'm thrilled. I'm working on this really hippy-dippy shirt right now. I bought some fabric at Wal-Mart (*spit*) for a dollar, and it's this total 70s granny print, that no one else seemed to want.

did you get a pic of the pillow? size 13 needles are so big. . .

I think I will start a sewing thread, because now that my mother has left, I have no one to cry to when I fuck up a seam.

New easy all purpose girl gift: keyhole scarf. They are shorter than a regular scarf, and with a bit of ruffle on the end they look fab.

I've not knitted double-stranded but I do like using multiple yarns and dropping/picking the strands up.

I cast on and knit a couple of rows of the double-stranded stuff and it looked great. I was using 10 1/2 sized needles, but I think it'll look better on a 9. It's combining wool from naturally brown Texas sheep with a strand of cashmere to make it a little softer and give it a tweedy look (merry xmas dad).

http://static.flickr.com/95/258172320_4f47355504.jpg?v=0

(new sewing machine in background!)

I bought a skirt pattern this weekend but have yet to jump into. I did sew a lining in one of my knit purses though.

Cardigan. . .I really have to sew my pieces together. It was supposed to by my mother's birthday present. christmas maybe??

http://www.stitchymcyarnpants.com/moks06/

I have the pattern book with the "Psst..." girls!

http://youknitwhat.blogspot.com/

Just came back from the knitting course. A lot of students have already dropped out! I feel like a complete klutz really. I just can't do anything right. :-( I feel really inept and ph34r that I'll never get it right.

HERE IS WOT I HAV MADE (it is crochet but PFF)

http://static.flickr.com/81/257335098_822c18d238_m.jpg

HERE IS WOT I AM MAKIN'

http://static.flickr.com/91/257465333_59220c0851_m.jpg

This sock is a BREAKTHROUGH, I don't know whether it's because I'm doing a pattern which isn't stocking stitch so it's not showing, but there are no little ladders between each seperate needle where the stitches are loose! For the first time EVER!

Should I learn how to crochet? I always make fun of it, calling it "the poor man's knitting", because I am a jerk. I mock because of ignorance. I should learn and make my friends terrifying presents with plastic doll parts, like this:

http://monster-island.org/albums/toys/doll.jpg

She had trouble with her Internet connection. She was over here the other night. I'll tell her you miss her.

Also, man, patterns are EXTREMELY hard to do when you have to adapt the amount of stitches.

I always make fun of it, calling it "the poor man's knitting"

My friend told me it's far HARDER than knitting. O RLY?

I say LEARN IT! I've never understood the knitting v crochet rivalry, can't we just all get on :)

I must take a pic of the top I made with the blue linen drape by the way, cos I am totally going to undo it and make something else! There are a couple of rows where I picked up stitches the wrong way, not THAT obvious but I can tell, also I have no great desire to wear such a bright colour anyway and seeing as it's now firmly WINTER wouldn't even if I liked it...

sidenote: I like to make ill-informed or completely uninformed decisions and go with it, for my own amusement. It's how I roll.

That being said, I shall try to teach myself how to crochet ASAP!

I've started a short row hat that uses up my old acrylic stash crap and some socks with a twisted rib pattern. hooray!

big ass copy of the picture and free pattern

with some variation, it could be the Katamari prince hat.

okay that's pretty awesome.

http://static.flickr.com/108/264136424_7603dc79b9_m.jpg

then.... the other side is AWFUL!!

http://static.flickr.com/87/264120823_cba53d980e_m.jpg

This short row heel was done using some backwards yarn-over method, as you can see it works for one side but not the other CRY CRY. I am a bad knitter and am going to turn it inside out to try and fake graft some of the holey bits together when done as there is no WAY I will be able to rip back accurately.

Wait, 1 US dpns? That's tiny and sounds frustrating.

I got a free (!) sock pattern book at this publishing book fair I went to, which shows you how to knit socks with any needle combination you like (dbpns, circular, etc.). I tried reading the patterns this weekend, but it made my brain hurt.

I have size 00 but i have never made anything on them!

I was making granny squares this weekend to piece together with all of the random ones I have lying around for an ugly afghan for my kitty.

What is size 1 US? I'm afraid I'm simply TOO LAZY to google. The smallest needles I have are 2mm straights, I haven't even seen any smaller knitting needles than that (now CROCHET needles are another story...)

I upgraded my flicker account so a knitting/crochet set is on the to do list.

http://www.buttercupminiatures.co.uk/needles.htm

WTF, man! Making the collar is fucking HARD. I mean, the collar ain't that bad but what if you have to continue making a diamond shaped pattern that doesn't just JUMP (if you know what I mean). I realize I'll have to just TYPE it out. As Starry said: it's like maths... and I SUCK AT MATHS. I know there's a logic to it but I don't GET IT. :-(

I already started another *thing* (project or whateveryouwannacallit), namely a jumper dress. hahahaha I already realize that I'm going to flunk at this as well. I did another yarn size (?) and I thought I could calculate (by making a swatch(?)) how much I would have to do less. But now I realize that I am decreasing too much... then too little. Oh GOLLY. :-) I hope it'll work out fine anyway (with a little help of my teacher). The yarn IS lovely: it's bit like this yarn only it has more coloures (red, yellow, green, blue...)

Never tried a balaclava--are you looking at the one on knitty?

I think I see.

Oh so anyway last night I dropped the knitting and this spent two hours where the sum total of my work was TWO NEGATIVE ROWS...

And anyway now my hand hurts so 1000x boos to the knitting for a day or two. Time for restorative BEER.

a good sock pattern is still eluding me but patita says she might have some.

The "large" version (cast on 44 stitches) seems to fit my feet pretty well, with 4 or 4 1/2 mm needles and suitable wool yarn.

Hmmm. I'm not sure that made any sense, but it does work (not sure if it would be different knitting in the round, but I don't think so).

http://www.socknitters.com/kickback/joglessjog.htm

diamond pattern is not right on top left corner (I guess you could say it's flawless)

collar is maybe too narrow

ARGH!

Tell me all about YOUR mistakes so I know that one day I will manage to knit properly. :-(

I had (oh so wrongly) picked a sweater with a diamond pattern. The teacher should have recommended, knowing that I'm a novice, that I should have started with something simpler. Now when I asked the teacher if I should not just knit in jersey, she advised me to do the diamond pattern. SHe's quite nice. I'm sure that if I had asked her how I had to solve decreasing stitches while still making sure the pattern matches, she would help me a little bit. But she didn't. When I said:well, I just have to deduct the stitches, no? She smiled. I soon discovered that it was harder. :-) And now I have a flawed (instead of loupe clean) diamond pattern. ROFFLE. ;

Ah hell, it's a bit like having a baby: it's so much fun, but god damn it it's crazyhardfun. :-)

Next week it's the ARMS. That'll be a laugh and a half.

I wanted to check the Yesterknits website again because I'd love to one day knit in retro style. But it's DOWN! Anyone know any sites that offer really old patterns for sale/free?

here's the hat pattern:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/PATTtopi.html

In short: I feel your pain, Nathalie. Or I'm just a dpn-tard.

or something like that. otherwise we risk becoming refined and respectable ladies! my heavens! ;)

a) I hadn't been doing the GUSSET i said GUSSET correctly anyway - after I realised I was missing some stitches after I finished the heel I decided to just go ahead and continue in stocking stitch. Except this had about 20 more sts in the round than I was supposed to have, but on slipping it on it seemed OK. But then I realised this 20 sts surplus might be too much to make up.

b) The heel was incredibly messy

c) I am ILL and feeling fatalistic about EVERYTHING and that was the only time I could bear to rip back.

So now I am back to turning heel point! I am going to put in a lifeline and then try again with a strange method called purl encroachment recommended to me by someone on flickr: [http://hipknitism.com/library/techniques/p_enc.shtml].

But now I am still ill and lousy so I am making crochet squares. Mmm lovely soothing crochet mmmmm lovely mmmm etc.

Also, the new cat Stella does not get yarn. I draped some on her head and she just glared at me.

I would like to try a lace shawl for my grandmother but I realize that my knitted xmas prospects are dwindling with the holidays fast approaching. arrggh, I always end up like this.

http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/abbreviations_explained/

sounds like you slip a stitch, knit (or whatever) the next stitch, then bring the slipped stitch over the one you just made and off the needle (sort of like binding off.)

This refreshes my memory and has made my mood considerably better. It's like you're just binding off that one stitch.

That page is a reference gem!

http://www.sugarncream.com/pattern.php?PID=133&PHPSESSID=b950c1f44f9b215c9f4764fb5e682b64

WTF does "DO NOT TURN" mean? It told me to crochet into "the other side." I cannot wrap my mind around it.

Also, I want to get Stitch N' Bitch's "Happy Hooker." Does anyone have it? Does it give nice instructions like the knitting one did?

feeble attempt at a dress for ophelia:

http://zerointerrupt.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/image002.jpg

almost finished. only (hah!) need to knit the collar and arm holes. i'm crap at finding out how to pick up stitches. anyone have advice/tips?

Molly, I do not read crochet patterns. all the crochet I know was learned at the knees of elderly women and is largely muscle memory.

Nath, look at that link I posted upthread for Molly. They had some good videos. Picking up stiches is not hard if I recollect. I think it's basically creating live stitches out of ones that are already finished (e.g. running your needle through the loops of a row so you then have "new stitches" to knit into).

I also forgot to post this before. I am making a blanket out of all the random wool I have. I say blanket. It is just things sewn together with GLEEFUL ABANDON for TASTEFUL DESIGN! And I would like to know if any of YOU ILz0rs would like to JOIN IN and help the blanket quest by sending me your squares and general knitted or crocheted GUMPH you don't have a home for.

HERE is the last picture - it has since then grown a couple of inches of crocheted using some wool a friend spun for me about a grillion years ago but I haven't taken a photo of that.

http://static.flickr.com/122/276073088_9c26622307_m.jpg

So there you go! An international plea for STUFF. Molly, email me if you are interested in me hem hem HOOKING you up with the HOOKER!

I finished the knitty tychus hat last night and just must sew it up. will post pics later.

Oh! I meant to say. "Do not turn work" is generally when you are making something 3d - in this case the bag structure - you are crocheting something tubular - so where you would usually join the stitches, you just keep going round and round and round and round and round and round and round - crochet is super for constructing 3d things I've found, much easier than knittin.

Except I really want a scarf NOOOOOOOW :(

it does but not for the amount of stitches *I* used. :-( i'll have to use MATHS to figure it out ey? :-)

Sam, I decided to try that Tychus pattern with some sari yarn I got (for a friend who requested a crazy hat). I figure if I pair the sari stuff with acrylic it should be more manageable.

Nathalie, I sympathize with the whole maths thing--I try to use it to figure out things I've modified and it leads to pain and grossly disproportionate things.

K, when felting use a bit of detergent and or fabric softner. I love felting!

I need to see if there are any old ladies at the library who can help me.

Am I understanding right though that sc is equivalent to UK dc? In UK talk 'single crochet' is I think the US 'slip stitch'.

Yes! That's what I think!

sc = single crochet (US stylee)
sl st = slip stitch (I think! I only started crocheting on Saturday!)

Here's the 1st part of the instructions:

INSTRUCTIONS: BASE: Ch 43. 1st rnd: 1 sc in 2nd
ch from hook. 1 sc in each ch to end of ch. Do not
turn. Working into other side of ch, work 1 sc in each
rem loop of ch. Join with ss to first sc. 84 sc. 2nd rnd:
Ch 1. 1 sc in same sc as last ss. 1 sc in each sc around.
Join with ss to first sc. Rep last rnd 6 times more.

this is my philosophy as well. G. is going to wear that damn hat I made.

I spent last night ripping out more stitches than I actually knit. Short rows are hard on the brain!

Now, here's my question: rags. Where does one acquire them? I'm not in a position in life where I have a bunch of old sheets, and my mother, who does, live 800 miles away.

If your mother needs to send you anything, can she put some sheets in the box as well?

Look who I made! Na na na na na na katamari damashii!

http://static.flickr.com/120/285684817_b41079b117.jpg

i got a great animal ear hat pattern from patita last night and I'm excited to get started.

I have finished the front and back of a dress but I don't know how many stitches I need to pick up for the collar and armsleeves. :-((((((((((((( I'll need to bring it to class I assume.

I haven't done a lot of knitting as I'm DEPRESSED and PH34R that I'm just a KLUTZ.

starry, that prince is awesome!

Wonderknitter powers activate, Nathalie! That class sounds brutal!

http://zerointerrupt.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/image002.jpg

Bear in mind that the colours are cause of the yarn colour change, not my doing. :-)

I = rub at assembling (which is why my stepmother has done most of my gifts for me).

Oh no, I won't be knitting anything *adulty* this year nor this century! I knit quite fast (for a beginner) but not THAT fast. :-)

Should finish that BABY sweater - or rather both - by monday. Could be done but I PH34R Wentworth Millah in his PrisonBreak will win me over.

Working on a hat for a cousin, then it's a hat for dad and a hat for my best friend. I know a lot of people with cold heads, it seems.

G. really wants chickens but I've convinced him that we must wait until we move out into the country, our backyard is too small. Also, I'm only half Mexican.

I need new needles to do the ear hat. :( to hobby lobby!

i'm starting to like metal circs more.

(jk obv)

I have to redo part of the sweater. But hey my teacher didn't laugh. Well, not in a devilish/pitying way. :-)

One student has already gone to the second year and another two have dropped out. I am not quitting!

I finished up the hat I started on Wednesday (in cashmere ooh aah) and have decided to do another one for my dad.

Ooh! Z would like to learn to make socks too! I am proposing a sock-a-long! No one need go barefoot! All ILX is welcome! Is there still a search for a reasonable pattern? I found one that even works for fat ankles. I guess we can talk about it on Wednesday and post stuff here?

starry, I found the tension square I did out of the softest cotton ever and would be happy to send it to you for your afghan.

Nathalie, two circulars could be used. You may want to put some kind of point protector on the non-knitting ends so the work doesn't slide off.

Not knitting, I know, but it's my first successful attempt at doing some lace. HURRAH.

No knitting was accomplished last night, that's how much of a mess I made trying to wind the yarn into a ball.

Nathalie, I'm very sorry to hear that this dress is giving you such trouble! I've been thinking about trying this cardigan sweater pattern for little kids, it doesn't look very daunting (and it will fit every kind of head!):
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall02/PATThaiku.html

My dress is nearly finished. A million stitches, a gazillion errors. I'm trying not to care.

http://zerointerrupt.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/afb003.jpg

It needs some buttons (on the back and on the one sleeve) and a ribbon. It's an empire dress.

Tell me your first finished projects looked as crap as mine does? It doesn't look crap? Well, the pic is fuzzy, I guess. ;-)

And patita, microfiber for the swiffer cover! genius!

WADDAYSAY? I think it's okay for a first attempt. :-D It has loads of mistakes (that only knitters can notice, I've checked this - heh) but I don't care, she can WEAR IT!

Great work Nath! Talk about dedication! In fact, you're scaring me a bit :)

or maybe an ilx sock-a-long??

A yarn swap could be very cool as well--how does it work?

I'm knitting a triangle scarf thingie for Ophelia. I'm doing a HUGE one so she can put it on her lap when we go walking. :-)

I like the dress, but I've grown (already!) fed up with all the colours. :-) Next time it'll be in MONOcolour. :-)

Are cardigans that hard to knit? I've seen one in Simply Knitting (Matinee something) and I desperately want to knit the thing though I don't understand the whole pattern. HELP.

Sock-a-long = we all knit a sock at the same time! However, after the happy short row disaster of Tropicana, leading to a lot of ripping back and wailing, I can't face doing another sock at the moment, going all out on clapotis 'scarf' (it looks more like being a bloody blanket at this rate, but I like blankets, so hey), another scarf (a NORMAL one this time), more katamari cousins to crochet - and I have recieved a VEEEERY thorough short row explanation and method to fix the gappy heels which I want to try out on a flat piece of ARAN knitting before I start the sock heel again. Yes, I could just try and work out a pick up heel flap thing again, but I like the end result of a proper short row heel more I think.

I can't but do several projects at the same time cause I think I'd fall asleep and drool over one project. :-)

Can anyone recommend me any fantastic books on knitting? I already have that Vogue one. But I would like to have more (hah!). I also have that Debbie Stoller one. (And some others that are not important enough to mention... Okay, that Dummie one. God, that's a mediocre one.

Oh yes! I still need to put a ribbon through the dress but I don't want to do that. What should I do instead, Crochet one or do an i-chord? Is the latter difficult to make?

Last Minute Knitted Gifts
Stitch N Bitch
Mason Dixon Knitting
One Skein

I should dig into vintage "classic" knitting books like Vogue knitting & whatnot. I'm also interested in reading Elizabeth Zimmerman's books & Debbie New.

And I was thinking I could take pictures of my sock in progress, to show short rows and picking up stiches, etc etc.

Good luck with the sewing, Sam. That is next year's ability to learn for me.

"The Knitting Answer Book: Solutions to Every Problem You'll Ever Face; Answers to Every Question You'll Ever Ask" has been a really handy resource as I've taught myself how to do new kinds of stitches and short row stuff. It helps decipher the more complicated instructions in patterns.

That orange bobbly cable on the cover of Simply Knitting gives the model super-powered nipples. I giggled when I got it!

I bought two balls of worsted weight to make a scarf for my grandmother but I don't think it will be enough. I have a couple of skeins of a darker, matching shade in bulky lamb's pride. how can I combine the two for one scarf? I was thinking of doing something lengthwise with a few rows in the lighter weight then a few rows in the bulky weight. Is this possible? will I have to knit separately and then graft together? (hope not.)

So my knitting crazy girlfriend took a weaving class this weekend. And last night she bought a 60 inch table loom.

Oh wait, she didn't buy it.

I'd love to weave but 1 I don't have the time and 2 I would probably suck at it. :-( I'm so bad at crafts. I often ask myself why I knit. :-(

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/3786408638_da3710a250.jpg

-> From Modern Lace Knitting. Should have been done in fine cotton but I have just started with lace knitting so wanna take it easy. As soon as you get the structure it gets easier.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/3702925467_deee8ccb13.jpg

This scarf is superfun and superfast (if you continue doing which I haven't but I will finish second half PROMISE)

Started doing lace knitting. Yes, I'm crap at it. Not as crappy as my gauge measuring, but still crap enough.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/3702925467_deee8ccb13.jpg

Lace 'n' bobble hat

Oops

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/3807304205_983aa7f5c2.jpg

Austin, did she STEAL it???????? ? ???

I have the top of an orange cardigan I'm making, sitting in my lap AS I TYPE.

i'm almost done with this http://www.kelbournewoolens.com/springtimebandit.html but i'm trying to fix a mistake that involves a dropped yarn-over 2 rows back so it's at a standstill. going to start a pair of sox soon

Ha, that was the next thing I planned to make! I think I left the yarn for it in a hotel room tho

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:(((((

My knitting has slowed to a crawl this summer. It's taken 6 weeks to get 2/3rds through the second of these socks:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/3605099195_9910cdd9f9.jpg
I'm doing a laceweight top-down sweater at the same time which is miles of stockinette and the occasional yarnover; it's at the 1/2way point and is gratifyingly sweater-shaped.

Oh no! for lost yarn - are you positive it's not in your house? I drove myself crazy for a few months, because I KNEW I'd bought 3 skeins of this variagated blue/gray/cream stuff and I couldn't find it anywhere. It turned up stuffed in the back of a sock drawer, no idea how it got there.

lolabbott

No. She decided she lacked the room for it. She's still looking at looms, though. And she did buy a bunch of knitting machines from cl.

My aunt has a kn machine. Should speak to her again so I can "borrow" it from her. She hardly ever uses it, so it seems.

I fear my stash has grown as rapidly as my rec collection. Yiiikes.

Also, as weird as it sounds: I am not interested in the finished projects. I have a ton of hats that I need to "donate". ha

I skipped out on the Sock Summit that was held down in Portland a few weekends back, but am going to the Mariners' Stitch&Pitch. Plenty of stash-building opportunities.

I am planning on going to the Mets Stitch&Pitch with my non-knitting Mets fan.

Did anyone The Colbert Report with the Maine Congresswoman? As soon as he started to fake snore when she talked about knitting, I knew that was going to end up on Ravelry.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7433117 :-)

You should check out the poop they knit. Or what about the tampons (yes, they actually use'em).

bahahaha I did see that on Colbert. Did you see the "Nailed 'em" feature on that show about the "activist knitter" who got put on a suspected terrorists list & wasn't allowed to board a plane?

poop! tampons! rofl