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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

Didn't go to the knitflick thing (again... :( ) it was way too sunny out and I had to make 4 pom pom tails and some papier mache eggs for the club! next time....

Yep - if people are up for a craft meet up on easter mon - in the afternoon / eve? pm me for address if you don't already have it.... I reckon this will be a knitting one but possibly with hot cross buns as it's easter and all...
:)

em x
 
Yes.. I'd prolly be up for some knitting on Easter Monday.. although I can't commit... gonna be doing a triathlon at 6am that morning.. so it depends whether I've been carted off to casualty or not... :(

On a further knitting note.. I finished all my squares for my baby blanket and now I'm trying to sew them all together and it looks a bit shit... I've spent the last 6 weeks knitting these blinking squares.. just don't get the "sewing up" bit at all, so i've just kinda been making it up as I go along... which is probably where I'm going wrong... :rolleyes: so I will definitely try and make it so someone can tell me where I'm going wrong.

I didn't make it to the knitchicks thing either.. I was having a small breakdown that was a combination of being tired, hungover, having a small boy, large dog and boyfriend conspiring to slowly destroy my flat and decided that the best thing to do was to move us all out to the park where minimal damage could be inflicted, both physically and mentally!! :D Lovely weather though!!
 
the good thing I've learnt about crochet btw is it makes sewing up a million times easier!...
 
gaijingirl said:
I can't help picturing a ball of sock wool sobbing uncontrollably... :(
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oh my god, I'm a convert! Up until yesterday I couldn't fathom the point of knitting socks, and then I found this yarn, in fluorescent of course. It rocks.

knitflicks was good, biggest turnout yet... but if I didn't *have* to go, I wouldn't have - the weather was too glorious to spend it indoors!
 
eme said:
Yep - if people are up for a craft meet up on easter mon - in the afternoon / eve? pm me for address if you don't already have it.... I reckon this will be a knitting one but possibly with hot cross buns as it's easter and all...
:)

em x
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I could well be - I need to start a new project first though. Are the shops shut on easter friday - or just monday? That way I can get some wool sorted.
 
I would love to come, but that depends on whether my partner is working, if he has the dy off, he's going off with the litttle one to see his parents, otherwise i'm stuck with her so i had better not be bringing a curious toddler with me to get into everything.
 
excellent i will come on easter monday too. will bring some easter eggs rather than self cooked stuff as i am a bit rubbish at that. can't wait.

..still haven't commenced on a new project...hopefully something will come to me soon :confused:
 
toggle said:
I would love to come, but that depends on whether my partner is working, if he has the dy off, he's going off with the litttle one to see his parents, otherwise i'm stuck with her so i had better not be bringing a curious toddler with me to get into everything.
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your welcome to bring her, if you don't mind keeping a close eye on her - there are fun things like stairs and balconies!! but we do have toys / books to look at so if you want to...
:)
 
She should be ok, if you can cope with the idea of a small person wondering about and randomly coming up to you saying kni, kni, kni and eating more than any adult there. I'd be willing to bring her for an afternoon/early evening thing, probably not for something that would be starting late and going on into the night. She would likely be a pain in the arse if she was kept awake late and that would ruin everyone else's enjoyment of the evening, and i'm not willing to risk that happening. it's not fair on her or on other people.

oh yeah, and she does cute sickeningly well.


Thanks eme.
 
moose said:
Meet Stumpy!
Laydeez at Snuffyzee's Manchester Knit Night are making Trauma Bears for Community Service Volunteers. Anyone interested in using up some oddments of wool can find the pattern here Ignore the picture though - the pattern is very vague and comes out nothing like the diagram!
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Stumpy's very cute (and tres chic) but think I'm going to add a bit onto the legs when I try it! (Or stretch it on a rack) ;)
Watch this space for a really tall bear!
 
Well I've finished my Birch lace shawl (despite getting so bored of it half way through that I paused to knit another of the loopy scarves from knitty, with a skein of Colinette point five for the thick stuff). I went through the same thing with it (Birch) as I did with the big lace stole I did for my mum, which was that while working on it I started to think both the colour and lace pattern were vile, and then as soon as it was finished I loved it. It's amazing - it weighs nothing but is incredibly warm. It's like wearing a cosy cloud.

I had a nightmare blocking it. I'd made it 30 stitches/rows bigger than the pattern said, calculating that would make it 6in wider, but something must have gone wrong with my tension because it really didn't seem to want to stretch that big. The corners were the worst. I was having to really tug at it and when I got to the last bit I just didn't think it was going to survive how much I was pulling it. So I took all the gazillion pins out and did it again a fair bit smaller - and now it's only 2 inches wider than the original :(. All that extra knitting for nothing :(. Still, it's plenty big enough really and it would have been too small if I hadn't put the extra on.

I did do a tension square so I don't know what went wrong :confused: I wonder if it could have been anything to do with the fact I knitted it on a circular needle so it would fit in my bag. Or whether it was just slightly out and the difference got multiplied up massively over the whole thing because there are so many rows.

At least it was something it didn't matter too much on - I would really hate to make that sort of mistake on something like a jumper that needs to fit :eek:
 
Hello everyone. I'm back from my travels and definitely up for an Easter Monday meet chez eme. Will PM you later -- a bit jet-lagged at the mo. :)
 
Hello MsT - see you on monday :)

Ruby - you are a knitting machine - I can't believe you had to redo so much of your shawl :eek: it looked well complicated.

I'm still wearing my scarf :) :)
 
Ah... it was only the blocking that I had to redo (damping it and pinning it out to size). I'd have committed hara kiri with a size 4 if I'd had to reknit much of that :eek:

Glad you're enjoying the scarf now we've got rid of that pesky warm weather.
 
So what do people use for blocking? I'm doing my nearly finished :) Skye wool cardi at the mo, and it won't fit on the ironing board, which is where I do smaller stuff.
 
Sheet or towel on the floor, then cover it up overnight with a thin sheet or something. Then lie awake worrying that the cat will be ragging it to death or throwing up on it.
 
cute stumpy bear. well done!

ruby you are very fast indeed. well done!

hello mrs t.

see you all monday. looking forward

(still no knitting here, hmpf)

:)
 
I haven't got anything to knit at the mo. I feel really weird.

<twiddles thumbs and waits for sock wool to arrive in post>
 
In a burst of energy this evening, I've finished off my cardi knitted in hand-dyed wool from Skye here (Cedric seems to like it)
and knitted and felted this little bag to fit some handles I found in my workbasket. :)
 
moose that cardi is amazing. it looks sooo complicated, very well done.

i am still not knitting, hmpf, but i find myself kind of knitting in my head. the last time i esperienced sth like this was when i learned how to typewrite and i would do the movements in my head everywhere in school, in the bus etc.

strange isn't it (anyone does the same)? :oops:
 
moose said:
In a burst of energy this evening, I've finished off my cardi knitted in hand-dyed wool from Skye here (Cedric seems to like it)
and knitted and felted this little bag to fit some handles I found in my workbasket. :)
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Oooh the cardi has turned out beautifully! See what you mean now about the stripes on the top bit. I think it's all turned out great.
 
Well my opal sock yarn has come, and I thought it was going to have a free pattern with it but it doesn't (well there's a lot of stuff in German inside the label which might be one but my German isn't that good...). I'm a bit stumped for a pattern now. I found this one http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8mnnp/mumsopals.html but I don't think it's going to be anything like big enough round the ankle for me, given that my ankles are not exactly slender and gazelle-like. I also have moderately big feet (7 1/2 ish)

Anyone got a pattern for me?

(nice work on the cardi there, moose!)
 
Knit a tension strip first to get some measurements and an idea of number of stitches for the top of the tube.

The best book I've found is Folk Socks Lots of different heel patterns and adaptable patterns for the beginner.

Basic sock patterns generally work to the same formula - after knitting down the leg tube, the heel flap uses half the total number of stitches, then when you've turned the heel and picked up all the stitches up the sides of the flap, you decrease on both sides again till you are back to the original number of stitches and knit along the foot, so when you've found a pattern that works for your wool, you can knit anything!

This is an in-depth aid to sock knitting, with info on 'short rows' for turning the heel.

If you look here under Yarn Weight, there are some in Opal.

This Knitty pattern is more complicated because of the stranded stitch, but the formula described above is used.
 
I'm off to John Lewis in a minute to buy some wool. I think my next project (to be started this afternoon chez eme) will be a bag.

Feel disproportionately excited. :)

Lovely cat, btw, moose. Cardi's not bad either. ;)
 
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