Craft club topic of the month - knitting!
- Thread starter RubyToogood
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Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
BiddlyBee said:
You know it makes sense
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
I'd say baby clothes are a perfect place to start, or better yet, baby blankets!
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
Excellent stuff. Be sure to get nice soft baby-specific wool... ooooh it's so nice and soft... ahem... yes.
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BiddlyBee said:LOL
baby-specific wool noted. I'll be back asking for tips. Actually don't think I'll be able to start unless I come to a meet... I have no idea how to cast on or cast off.
Come along then. If I can make it, I'll bring along some stuff for you to learn with.
if not, then you can pop over my place sometime after I get back from camp and I'll give you a lesson
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
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Oh you lucky beast! Am I too old for camp? it sounds fun.
Emma Herself
let me be your office boy
Wow I thought it was like a camp for kids you were teaching at, it sounds even better now!
i have cocheted a little belt for my god child at the german knitting group last sunday who are inspired by us 
i know almost all of them as well (mz cousin has initiated it) and had pretty much the same feeling about it like our dos.
except that it was hotter and they didn't drink any alcohol
i have stocked up at the handicapped charity shop on plenty of crochet hooks and a few more knitting needles...i have also bought a small bag full of buttons there..can't wait to do something with those as well.
planning to do more crochet for a while..
i know almost all of them as well (mz cousin has initiated it) and had pretty much the same feeling about it like our dos.except that it was hotter and they didn't drink any alcohol
i have stocked up at the handicapped charity shop on plenty of crochet hooks and a few more knitting needles...i have also bought a small bag full of buttons there..can't wait to do something with those as well.
planning to do more crochet for a while..
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
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I got some ribbon twist in the Liberty's sale, which is meant to be going to be a shrug, similar to the top of the Tubey jumper, and I'd rather do the sleeves on DPNs than having to sew them up. I want to do it on big needles so it's fairly holey and therefore not too warm to wear at cool moments now. Not sure if this is all going to work out though. I've still got another 3 projects on the needles too
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RubyToogood said:I got some ribbon twist in the Liberty's sale, which is meant to be going to be a shrug, similar to the top of the Tubey jumper, and I'd rather do the sleeves on DPNs than having to sew them up. I want to do it on big needles so it's fairly holey and therefore not too warm to wear at cool moments now. Not sure if this is all going to work out though. I've still got another 3 projects on the needles too
Only 3?
I'm bad at this, I've got at least 13.
I've also got 9 balls of r2 rag to work out what to do with. Should have been 10, but one ball went out of the package after, like 3/4 of packages I recieve, was opened in the postal system.
gaijingirl
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Eme.. I wouldn't mind making this... but I have a few questions..
Yarn: heavy worsted or aran weight - what kind of wool did you use?
Needles
Size 8US (5mm) 24” circular
Size 5US (3.5mm) 24” circular
Do you have to use circular- I thought you were doing it on straights?
Yarn: heavy worsted or aran weight - what kind of wool did you use?
Needles
Size 8US (5mm) 24” circular
Size 5US (3.5mm) 24” circular
Do you have to use circular- I thought you were doing it on straights?
eme
turn a frown upside down!
gaijingirl said:
Worsted is UK Double Knit I think? Summer Tweed is about that thickness... but you'd have to swatch with whatever you were using to see if it was ok
I used straights to do the main part as the circulars were pissing me off, and not entirely necessary for me using the that thickness of yarn. The stitches were pretty bunched up together (you are increasing the number of stitches) by the end though!
the smaller size needles have to be circulars as you are picking up stitches all along the neck / body edges...
oh and final thing - you are knitting this from the neck down! This had me v confused as I couldn't figure out which bit I was knitting from her pattern as there was no diagram thing of the final shape...
it's a v cute pattern though, and I can see myself using it again...
gaijingirl
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eme said:the smaller size needles have to be circulars as you are picking up stitches all along the neck / body edges...
I know everyone thinks I'm mad.. but I still can't get the hang of circular flipping needles.... I'll give them another go and see...
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gaijingirl said:
It's worth persevering, there are some really nice things that can be made a lot easier by using circs.
I've got a needlemaster set to show off when I next see you gals. Well, at least I hope I should have it. I bought it on sale from a US distributer and it's being re shipped to me by a friend in florida. She posted it to me about 2 weeks ago. I hate waiting.
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Changing the facts
Apologies if this has already been posted (about to rush off to work, no time to trawl through thread, wanted to pass on this info...)
Now you can knit in the dark! There's a better picture here.
Also, crochet hooks!
Now you can knit at gigs, the cinema, or make people say "Oh wow, cool" while knitting at a festival.
Now you can knit in the dark! There's a better picture here.
Also, crochet hooks!
Now you can knit at gigs, the cinema, or make people say "Oh wow, cool" while knitting at a festival.
