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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

aqua said:
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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ooh well done.. it looks really really fab! Your mum is going to be over the moon!
 
toggle said:
tell me about it.

however, I've got 500g of sock yarn for £15.
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we should open a seperate thread like:

-what wool have you recently purchased-


i am sure it would become popular quickly..

:D
 
I like the way you grade the levels of purchasing :D you havea room to store it all in don't you :D :p
 
toggle said:
I think I would find it very embarrassing
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the secret wool addiction buying until broke society. maybe the thread should be invisible unless you are another sufferer...


hey editor: can we have private member threads that only wool addicts would have access to? -only joking of course ;)


another popular thread could be btw: what have you knitted from your wool (or have you already bought some more)?
 
I've got a house with a sitting room and a dining room


however we never do sit down meals, so the 'dining room' is computer room, library and stash storage.
 
aqua said:
where does everyone buy from? other than colinette when your feeling rich :D
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On holiday, or away for the weekend. There's a nice place in Whitby
called Bobbins which does Colinette, Abakhan in Flintshire in Wales is great, for discount fabrics as well as wool and loads of other stuff, and elsewhere I usually find the local wool shop. Mr Moose has a surprisingly good nose for sniffing them out. :D
We've got a great shop where I live - tiny but crammed with unusual stuff.
I've also had stuff from Stash. A cardi I finished recently contained wool I'd bought in Reykjavik, Hamburg, Glastonbury and Helsinki.

I'll be popping in LellaBella in Venice in a couple of weeks ;)
 
:rolleyes:

so for the rest of us that don't get to travel quite so much, where do you get your wool from :D

:p
 
I think my point was not so much that I'm well travelled, but that you should add to your stash whenever you can, knowing you might not knit it till years later, and that the fun of wool shopping for me is not buying something specific for a project, but getting something I can have in the back of my cupboard, and my mind, until the perfect pattern suggests itself. :p
 
:( I really want to start on a hat... but don't understand the pattern. Will have to wait until craft club tomorrow for a bit of help.
 
eme said:
I have a pattern for a 'man scarf' (in fact they cal it boyfriend scarf, but whatever) that I used to make my green one. it's rib one side, knit the other. So 1st row: knit, purl, knit, purl etc 2nd row: knit... it's quicker thatn doing single rib, and it makes a nice pattern...

eta: ahh... just read the bit about not having enough for a rib...well even so, this might work?
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Ok.. I'm going to have a go at eme's 'man scarf' instead, more my level. Can anyone tell me, from looking at the photo, whether I need to slip the first stitch to get edges like that? Or do I just knit it?

Thanks :)
 
it was just knitted or purled (depending on the row) - some people like to leave the first and last stitches slipped but I think this is more for ease of sewing up if your doing a cardi or something that you need to seam, rather than for aesthetic reasons...
 
i'ts much easier to slip stitches if you are picking up stitches, Personally, I find it harder to sew, but it can give a nicer looking edge if you can't control your tension on the edge stitches.
 
erm... I may be being a bit of a perfectionist here, but just realised that because I've cast on 16 stitches one edge of the scarf is knit and one edge is purl - does that matter?

I'm tempted to start again so that the rows start and end in knit - my flatmate says don't bother - am I being a bit too anal? :D
 
toggle said:
shopping bag and pattern. Again, I'd love feedback about how it's written
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looks clear to me - although had to check the pattern to see if I had missed the shaping.. I think it's just that the weight of whatever you'd had in it stretched the fabric around the handles of the bag, making it look like there was some shaping!

The one way you could make it easier (if you are recycling fabric or plastic for your yarn) is the cut it into one long strip, like this making cuts in from either side, rather than lots of little ones you then have to glue together.

hope that helps!
 
I've been told that using a bias cut strip makes it less likely to fray, that's why I've described that method.

yeah, the photo isn't good, but I couldn't take pics outside because it's pissy weather.
 
I suppose that it would work to combine the idea, cut diagonally, but not cut through to the end, leave a half inch uncut at the end of each diagonal strip to create one long strip.

((eme))

thanks hun


Feels like a complete idiot for not thinking of that in the first place
 
You can make bias strips by cutting a square of fabric in 2 on the diagonal so you have 2 triangles. Then stitch the triangles right sides together to form a kind of diamond shape, draw cutting lines accross it then pin it together into a tube but slightly 'off' so that one edge is higher than the other. . The cutting lines join up but to the next one up iyswim. Stitch it with a quarter inch seam. Then you can cut it in one long strip.

I've explained that really badly :(

*goes off to google home made bias strips*

aha!! http://quilting.about.com/od/bindingaquilt/ss/binding_strips_5.htm

http://quilting.about.com/od/bindingaquilt/ss/binding_strips_6.htm
 
BiddlyBee said:
Ok.. I'm going to have a go at eme's 'man scarf' instead, more my level. Can anyone tell me, from looking at the photo, whether I need to slip the first stitch to get edges like that? Or do I just knit it?
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Right - what's this about "slipping" stitches? I made myself a hat with some "Bigga" wool on 15mm needles but when I came to sewing it up some the edge stitches were a bit, well, gappy and loose if you know what I mean - certainly not as tight and together as the main knitting. Would slipping the last and first stitches on a row made the edges neater? And do you mean literally just passing the stitch over to the other needle? No purling or knitting of the stitch?

Questions, questions, questions ;)
 
I wouldn't do a slip stitch edging if you are sewing up along that edge. I just don't like the way it gives you less stitches to work with along the edge and makes it harder to sew and much harder to get neat. some people recommend them, some patterns include them, I don't. I'ts a matter of personal preference.

For the edge tension,get into the habit of pulling the first 1 or 2 stitches on a row a bit tighter, this means you have less yarn 'leftover' at the end of the row and are less likely to get a big loop. YOu still get a slightly larger stitch at the edge, but with practice, this will be like 1.3 larger, not enough yarn for 3 stitches.

if you are a beginner making a scarf, yeah, I can see the point of using a slip stitch edge so you make something wearable while you are getting used to knitting and working out your own tension.

The other place for them is if you are picking up stitches along the edge of a garment, to knit at right angles to your existing work.
 
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