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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

gaijingirl said:
AND... I'm fed up of my yarn getting in a mess - so I put up shelving to hold it in - also hoping that it will encourage me to use it all instead of buying new stuff:

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erm. I wouldn't dare show pictures of my stash here. I have far, far too much yarn to even start thinking about. I think you are very restrained if that's it.
 
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erm. I wouldn't dare show pictures of my stash here. I have far, far too much yarn to even start thinking about. I think you are very restrained if that's it.
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Well I'm trying NOT to end up in that situation tbh.. I keep buying new yarn - coming home and looking at the big box full - so this should make it easier for me to look at what I have in front of me before going out and buying more. :)
 
as long as your cats don't like it. I've caught mine eating some of my handpainted laceweight and running about with balls of pink mohair. very pink mohair.
 
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as long as your cats don't like it. I've caught mine eating some of my handpainted laceweight and running about with balls of pink mohair. very pink mohair.
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hmmmm... didn't think about that... :oops:
 
Choc said:
libertys wool sale is really worth it. just bought some lovely chocolate colour jaeger meriono wool for £2 a ball.
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I bought 5 balls of Jaeger 100% wool chunky stuff in a burgundy for £17.50. Am going to save it though until I am better at knitting...am working on my first ever jumper at the moment. It's got some interesting modifications to the pattern - I never knew I could knit button holes in! Good job I started on the back piece!
 
gaijingirl said:
Well I'm trying NOT to end up in that situation tbh.. I keep buying new yarn - coming home and looking at the big box full - so this should make it easier for me to look at what I have in front of me before going out and buying more. :)
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lol :D

just made me think that your shelving system almost already looks like a shop...so you can fool yourself in thinking you are buying some new yarn from now on...but from yourself..!

(only thsat this perhaps will only work half as well, i think we all suffer from the yarn accumilative syndrome btw!!)
 
Another question from me....

If I'm making a scarf (or anything) with quite thick wool and need to use more than one ball how to I then sew in the ends? I don't have a needle that thick :confused:

With a scarf I made a few weeks ago I just tied the wool together, but realise this might not be the right thing to do, and might not always work or look good.

Ta :)
 
if the wool is several plies, then sew each ply in separately.


or try and knit in the ends, if they are the same colour. when you join a new ball, knit using the end of the first and the start of the second together for a few stitches, maybee 4-5, with wool, it's generally sticky enough that it will hold together. then you just cut off the excess of the ends and tuck the little bit in between the stitches
 
I finally found the power cable to my camera, so you get to see the legwarmers from hell on the blog

oh yeah, are we still doing the flickr group thingy?
 
BiddlyBee said:
If I'm making a scarf (or anything) with quite thick wool and need to use more than one ball how to I then sew in the ends? I don't have a needle that thick :confused:
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you can use a crochet hook instead.... can show you on Sunday if you like...
 
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Yeah, I've set up my own flickr account for my knitting stuff, on the principal that anything has to be better than waiting for photos to upload to blogger.
 
eme said:
you can use a crochet hook instead.... can show you on Sunday if you like...
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That'd be great... I'll be starting either a scarf or hat in the next few days :)

(might make sense to start the hat... then I can ask questions on Sunday when I get stuck :D)
 
toggle said:
I finally found the power cable to my camera, so you get to see the legwarmers from hell on the blog
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loooo:D ll!



i am so proud of J* who has first sat on my knitting last friday night, and pulled half the needles out and the stitches were all over the place :mad:

and then he has sorted it all out (nearly) tip top the next morning (when the attempts by both of us at night have been disastrous). not even I can do that (..at all)! :oops: he did it all with logical thinking strategy apparantly (i had to leave the room as i couldn't watch).

J*= :cool:
 
for those of you at the autmn weekend walk and saw mooses scarf heres my go at it :)

I'm dead pleased (ignore the 2 joins that need stitching in!) and its going to be my mums 60th birthday pressie :cool:
 

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that looks as though ti's knit side to side? short rows?

I'm used to seeing spirals knit lengthwise using increaces, I think I'd prefer to knit one side to side rather than ending up with 3k stitches otn.
 
its knit in triangles :) I have 15st on my needles, knit all 15 twice, then 14 back and forth, 13 back and forth, 12 etc etc keeping the unknit stitches on the needle, then when you get the one, knit that both ways then start again

its takes forever though :mad:
 
I did my first bit of knitting in years last night.

I purchased a couple of balls of lovely green wool from colinette - the range is called point 5 - and I now have about 50cm of scarf knitted. Problem is that I thought that 2 balls of wool would easily be enough to make a long scarf, but I seriously underestimated that so I'm going to have to order some more.

Has anyone else used wool from colinette (or any wool in skeins for that matter) before? Is there a neat way to unravel the wool to knit with it? I ended up unravelling each skein and making a ball of wool out of it as the skeins got really tangled. I'm thinking that skeins of embroidery thread always unravel neatly, so there must be a neat way to use a skein of wool!

(And how many times can I use the word skein in one post?!?)
 
There isn't, you have to make a ball out of it. Ideally you have someone sitting with their hands out for you...

You'd think 2 balls would be enough, it's just that it's so thick that there isn't much yardage per ball.
 
If bees isn't around I sit crossed legged on the sofa, place it over my knees and make the ball then :)

its alarmingly relaxing :cool:
 
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