Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

[wayward bob]

noooo yours will be teh bee. and perfect now the evenings are drawing in. my first foray into fairisle was to knit a christmas stocking for kid1 (before kid2! ) which was just an upsized fairisle sock, with snowflakes. was a lovely wintry project just like yours

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[Biddlybee]

Bloody hell, I won't post a pic of mine after seeing them

They're lovely! Very pretty snowflakes!

 

[wayward bob]

i managed to shrink myself down using 5mm needles and aran yarn - made a much easier introduction :thumbs : fairisle really is loads of fun once you wrap your head around it, and more forgiving than you might imagine - lace is *hard* for me but i <3 fairisle, hope you do too, it's magic

 

[moose]

I need to be very chilled out for fair isle, otherwise it's a puckered mess.

 

[campanula]

I love colourwork...although much less keen on intarsia.......but I have been utterly idle doing the new jumper. Mr Camps wanted black and red stripes but managed to shame him (what are you....six?) into accepting narrow (2 row) stripes, avoiding endless weaving ends, the curse of fairisle. Rattling through it - back, front and a sleeve in a week although it gets increasingly slower during the long middle stage, picking up speed once I get to a decreasing yoke.....but it is not unknown for garments to languish for weeks waiting for buttons to be sewn on seams joined (the biggest con, to my mind).

 

[RubyToogood]

 

[moose]

Planning out a circular yolk pattern for a cardigan. The cardi will be black, so what's black here will be white, and red will be red.

 

[Biddlybee]

What's in between the heart and anchor?

So I finished the jumper and was frantically blocking it on christmas eve managed a quick fix and she was happy to wear it all of christmas day (I think I might make her a dress/pinny for this year ).

I was going to make myself a pair of gauntlets, but the wool I was planning on using is sock weight, so it would take bloody forever, but it's the tube colours yarn and I don't really want to make socks - any ideas?

While I'm deciding and waiting on the wool to make this (for me!), I'm going to knit some fingerless gloves for a present, just can't decide on the pattern yet - simple, cabled or lace?

 

[Biddlybee]

I didn't post was I was going to originally, which is that I think I might rip the whole jumper in about a month The wool is so lovely, but the fit is rubbish, it was top down though, so I could rip until before the fairisle and just add a few stripes, or an animal?

 

[moose]

What's in between the heart and anchor?

Supposed to be a rose. I pinched it off another patter where it looks more convincing when knitted

Shame you're still not 100% happy with little'un's jumper, but I guess if you rip, you can knit something next size up. It could be the endlessly recycled jumper!

 

[Biddlybee]

Oh yeh, so it is

I love the snowflakes, but it's too small for her really.

 

[etnea]

That jumper's dead cute Biddlybee
The good thing though, if you decide to rip the bottom and make it longer, is that clothes for smalls are quick
So I finished the owl mittens, (no photo, and I sent them to Shelley, but I think she put a picture of them on the Christmas presents thread) and also a stripy hoodie for the boy (grrrrr stripes - never again, too many ends to sew in, and too bulky along the seams, but he's bloody wearing it anyway ) and am back to making Yet More Socks. I am SICK of making socks, but have a massive stash of sock wool. Any ideas?
I've banned myself from buying any more new wool/fabric cos really I need to use up as much of my stash as I can before we move. Might try and get started on the dinosaur quilt for the boy soon.

 

[Biddlybee]

Heh, I'm not a very quick knitter, but it should be way quicker than anything for me

I'll have a search for the mittens. I've gone back to my idea of gauntlets to use up the sock yarn. A shawl or lacy scarf might work too?

 

[etnea]

I never, ever make grown up sized things, apart from accessories, I just get massively bored halfway through. In fact, I have a ballerina cardigan that I started before we left Brixton, and that has been halfway round the world with me, and is Still Not Finished

 

[etnea]

(that's more than 7 years btw)

 

[moose]

I've made lots of scarf/wrap shawl things out of sock yarn, and also armwarmers, etnea - I have no idea whether your weather warrants arm-warming, but wraps are always handy to have in your bag in case it turns chilly.

 

[wayward bob]

jumper is gorgeous bee if you can face ripping it back i would, it deserves plenty of wear.

 

[Biddlybee]

If I rip it back I won't do the snowflakes again I reckon a lizard or squirrel in one corner, or a hare or a jackalope

 

[Biddlybee]

Argh, realised I won't have enough of the cream wool to finish it off

 

[RubyToogood]

I like the flakes! You just need to do them on a larger needle.

Or you could just do stripes, but I think that would be a shame.

 

[campanula]

That jumper's dead cute Biddlybee
The good thing though, if you decide to rip the bottom and make it longer, is that clothes for smalls are quick
So I finished the owl mittens, (no photo, and I sent them to Shelley, but I think she put a picture of them on the Christmas presents thread) and also a stripy hoodie for the boy (grrrrr stripes - never again, too many ends to sew in, and too bulky along the seams, but he's bloody wearing it anyway ) and am back to making Yet More Socks. I am SICK of making socks, but have a massive stash of sock wool. Any ideas?
I've banned myself from buying any more new wool/fabric cos really I need to use up as much of my stash as I can before we move. Might try and get started on the dinosaur quilt for the boy soon.

I learnt to crochet granny squares and used years of stash making a blanket....although it was bloody boring by the end and I honestly expect to never do another granny square again.
I confess to making lots of tiny things unless I use huge needles and chunky wool - I have a sort of unofficial rule to never have to do in excess of 90 stitches across a back. I can whip up a jumper in a couple of weeks but my record for finishing is 17 years...for a Rowan cotton textured jumper for eldest child...which I eventually wore (twice). It still hangs on a hanger where I keep it as a sort of lesson (and goad).
I love 2 row stripes in alternate colours - no ends...but have done that look to death.

 

[campanula]

Argh, realised I won't have enough of the cream wool to finish it off

Can you extend the length in red? I have had to add various frills and the like on the ends of jumpers and cardies for my rapidly growing grandchild - sometimes between starting and finishing, a couple more inches have been needed.
Yours is definitely worth working on though.

 

[Biddlybee]

Supergran(dma) has just knitted her an aran, so I'm not sure she needs another jumper.

So I think I will rip it. It's two strands of yarn, so should have enough to make this for the autumn for her... http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mauna

 

[etnea]

I learnt to crochet granny squares and used years of stash making a blanket....although it was bloody boring by the end and I honestly expect to never do another granny square again.

I've got one of these on the go from the leftovers of dozens of pairs of completed socks...
I've got lots of unused balls of sock wool to find an alternate use for. Self patterning, so I don't think lacy/intricate stuff looks good. I guess i may have to go with armwarmers/mittens.

 

[moose]

I've got one of these on the go from the leftovers of dozens of pairs of completed socks...
I've got lots of unused balls of sock wool to find an alternate use for. Self patterning, so I don't think lacy/intricate stuff looks good. I guess i may have to go with armwarmers/mittens.

If you can bear something repetitive but not as bad as squares, the ubiquitous Japanese Flower Scarf looks ok if you do it in sock yarn, not bothering about the colour changes, just using 2 toning yarns for each flower. Here's the proper one, I'll try to find a pic of mine later, which was sock yarn. http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2011/03/japanese-flower-scarf-ta-dah.html

 

[etnea]

Thanks moose that's pretty
I guess I could make the granny squares Ive already done into a cushion cover, and use the rest of the leftovers for JFS.
Meanwhile I have started another damn sock.

 

[Shirl]

When you lot say "rip" do you mean pull it all back?

 

[RubyToogood]

When you lot say "rip" do you mean pull it all back?

It's the American word for unravelling.

 

[Shirl]

It's the American word for unravelling.

Thanks. I like it, I'm going to use it. It might make me sound more like a proper knitter

 

[RubyToogood]

Thanks. I like it, I'm going to use it. It might make me sound more like a proper knitter

I always think it sounds unnecessarily violent.