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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

Biddles... i'd love to be able to help you... however, I'm not that great at it myself. However, if you want to bring it to book club Thurs, we can have a go together! :) I'm also sewing up the sweatshirt which I have now finished knitting!
 
Well I've started knitting this for my niece:

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Am on row 4 and already tearing my hair out, because the chart they give you for knitting the animals seems to have the wrong number of stitches on it :confused: :confused: :confused: You have to reduce by 2 stitches in the previous row, but the chart shows the original number. And the final number of stitches in the chart seems to have one too many in it too :confused:
 
Fuck it, I'm going to knit it how I think it should be.

Then when I get near the end I will realise that it wasn't wrong at all, and there was A Reason.

:mad:
 
Right, I'm now the proud owner of a pair of 4 foot long, 18mm knitting needles that i can use to knit rag rugs. My intention is to raid a few cheap fabric shops and make rag balls, but i'm starting with knitting 4 strands at a time of the paton's cotton ribbon that I got 24 balls of for a fiver at a car boot sale. I reckon I'm going to get somehting about 4 foot square from that which may either be used as a bathroom rug, if it isn't too big, or as a throw over the back of my sofa.
 
All the knitted stuff has come out of the cupboard now it's got cold... I'm currently wearing my Tubey jumper, Birch shawl, cabled long fingerless gloves, with Loopy scarf to top it all off.
 
Well, you saw the big needles at iknit. i was looking at them at the stitch and craft show in march, but I was quite put off by the cost. So i got my dad to make me a pair out of materials that cost about a fiver. I don't think they will hold up as well as the nice wooden ones at iknit, but i doubt I will use them enough to make a difference.

I'm also working on some koolaid dyeing. I've got some cream wool DK that I got at £20 for a kilo and I'm dyeing a couple of hundred grams that will then become a felted project bag for my mother as her christmass pressie
 
RubyToogood said:
All the knitted stuff has come out of the cupboard now it's got cold... I'm currently wearing my Tubey jumper, Birch shawl, cabled long fingerless gloves, with Loopy scarf to top it all off.
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No hat?
 
toggle said:
Right, I'm now the proud owner of a pair of 4 foot long, 18mm knitting needles that i can use to knit rag rugs
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Pictures of you in action, please :D
You'll have someone's eye out, mind ;)
 
moose said:
Pictures of you in action, please :D
You'll have someone's eye out, mind ;)
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I'll see what i can do.

I might bring them along to the next craft club meet we have in someone's house, so people can try them out.
 
I've got lots of that Rowan green summer tweed left after making my sweatshirt and I'd like to make a nice hat to go with it.

Does anyone have any nice (relatively easy) pattern recommendations?
 
Actually.... I've still got 8x50g hanks... so I could probably make a little summer vest top right?

Sorry.... any recommendations for nice little summer vest top patterns..

or basically any pattern that would use up 8x50g hanks of summer tweed! :D
 
gaijingirl said:
Actually.... I've still got 8x50g hanks... so I could probably make a little summer vest top right?

Sorry.... any recommendations for nice little summer vest top patterns..

or basically any pattern that would use up 8x50g hanks of summer tweed! :D
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Should be something in my rowan mags.

Shite, lol. I've got some of that stuff in my stash.

Hmmm, 4 skein vest top
4 skein sleveless t shirt, you might be able to make both, or possibly adapt both to fit, rowan aren't that good at sizing for those of us that aren't small, and actually have boobies

8 skein tummy baring high neck jumper
my summer tweed is marked as possible to make cozy from knitty.com, but that may be subject to change

ask eme, I think she's got a couple of the backissues of rowan that I ahven't got. Only summer ones I've got are 31 and 39 (the art photos issue) iIRC, she at the least has 37, and that may have a couple more patterns in.
 
It doesn't have to be to fit me... I would be happy to make it to fit a normal medium sized.

I might take a look at knitty and see if anything there works...

I'm never sure how to know if I can swap one yarn for another... I suppose just look at that how many stitches = how many cms thing... (in this case 16 stitches is 10cm/in). If I find a pattern that fits that, can I just go ahead and do it? I quite fancy making a very simple summer vest so I don't have to bother with sleeves! :D
 
gaijingirl said:
It doesn't have to be to fit me... I would be happy to make it to fit a normal medium sized.

I might take a look at knitty and see if anything there works...

I'm never sure how to know if I can swap one yarn for another... I suppose just look at that how many stitches = how many cms thing... (in this case 16 stitches is 10cm/in). If I find a pattern that fits that, can I just go ahead and do it? I quite fancy making a very simple summer vest so I don't have to bother with sleeves! :D
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some look at the yarn content is advisable as well, different fibers make a garment behave in different ways.

check magknits as well.
 
I should be able to bring the mag with the patterns i mentioned above along to the next meetup. You may have to kick me a couple of days beforehand so i remember though.
 
oh shit. i have just posted in the your honest opinion about the above poster instead of in this thread...:rolleyes:


..to ask, when is our december knitting circle going to be??

in nervous anticipation,

Choc
 
hangovers -brilliat :D

thanks gajingirl,

but damn i am just looking into buying a ticket to go to bristol that weekend. was that a final date?

gaijingirl said:
It's December 17th at mine from 3:30pm :)
We're making Christmas cards and hangovers.
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Choc said:
hangovers -brilliat :D

thanks gajingirl,

but damn i am just looking into buying a ticket to go to bristol that weekend. was that a final date?
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I'm afraid so.. it was quite painful reaching that date with a number of rubbishly completed polls, meetings and pms...
 
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