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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

Ms T said:
My scarf's finished as well! All I need to do now is weave in the loose ends and attach the fringing. It's a little bit wider at the bottom than it is at the top, but not bad for a beginner!
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weird it is the same with my scarf too (the wideness)..? i am jealous of your fringe mrs t..haven't got any such thing on my scarf :(...? how do you weave in the loose ends...just weave it in or what?

There's no stopping me!
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same here.. ;)


thanks rubes :)
 
I would like to announce that I finished Coco the cat on Friday evening. I was, however, a bit of a twit yesterday and despite spending all day in town yesterday I neglected to buy any stuffing so the poor pussy cat is still just bits in a bag. :(
 
fuBganger said:
I would like to announce that I finished Coco the cat on Friday evening. I was, however, a bit of a twit yesterday and despite spending all day in town yesterday I neglected to buy any stuffing so the poor pussy cat is still just bits in a bag. :(
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That's when the emergency tights can come into play ;) I've aslo stuffed things with shredded plastic bags.
 
i have bought some more wool to do two little baby hats...lalala :)

Q: eme and ruby could you bring the patterns (or the baby pattern book again) for your hat? thanks so much.

damn i have a bit of a dilemma because said friend (one of my longest mates i have here) celebrates his b-day in the bonnington cafe. shite really but i have warned him that knitting has top priority at present...?? why always double events..i don't know now..?

btw justin your link to the guardian articele was so funny. in particular the idea about knitting a cock even with the authentic head and veins...oooops :D
 
Some of you may be interested in the Fashion Conscious Week at Rampart:

"the first conscious fashion week, an international gathering of organisations, groups, projects, campaigns and individuals, will run longside the official london fashion week during 13-17th february with:

a hilarious street carneval...
talks, discussions, screenings on the hot topics of fashion... too hot to handle for chanel, armani and co... on slave labour, environmental damage, eating disorders...

ways out of the dilemma with fab recycling, pc ecotextiles... open fashion workshops from head to toe... do it yourself! be your own label!

and last but not least: conscious fashion shows, entertainment and food... reclaim the catwalk!"

I can't go unfortunately, but I've been meaning to check out Rampart for some time now and this would have been a good opportunity...
 
Scarf is now completely finished with ends woven in and fringing attached. It looks fab -- I can hardly bear to give it away. (It's a present for a friend). :(

I've started on a hat now.
 
more finished scarves

I've just finished a scarf too - pics here and here.

I LOVE working with Noro... watching the colours emerge is mind blowing*.

*yeah, so my life is boring :rolleyes:
 
That Noro yarn looks gorgeous. Do you have to work it over quite large pieces for the colours to come out?

I have knitted one flower to the pattern Ruby gave me and am now faffing around changing the petals to my own spec! I'm using Jaeger mohair but might try mixing it up with something solid and tweedy to see what happens.
 
Is that two shades of Noro for the stripes, or does it just come out like that?

I've never been that grabbed by any of the Noro I've seen in the shops. Perhaps I just haven't seen the nice colourways. What I do fancy though is knitting something with Debbie Bliss Maya... and my mum is getting me some Colinette point five :drool:...

NB I don't know if I'll be able to bring hat patterns tonight as I'd have to go and photocopy them or something.
 
Point 5 is brill, although exceptionally prone to going fuzzy and pilling. I've got a cardi in the charcoal colourway. And it's soooo fast to knit :)

I've knitted a cardi in Maya, but was very disappointed - after using Colinette for so many projects, Maya's colour distribution is not random enough for me. Also, within the same dyelot each ball varies immensely :rolleyes: so make sure you knit in stripes of 2 - 4 rows to avoid all your pieces coming out different colours.

I'm hooked on Noro too. To get good colour contrast on a scarf like Acechiks using 2 balls of the same colour, rewind one of the balls so the beginning is now the end, IYSWIM, as all balls of Noro wool run in the same colour sequence through the ball.
 
I saw Maya for the first time last week and was struck by how similar it is to Manos del Uruguay. At $12.95/£7, it's only marginally cheaper, the difference being eaten up by postage. Still, the 'solid' version has an astounding range of marvellous colours.

Did anyone get to Ally Pally? I wisely/unwisely went without much money, but in doing so missed out on Colinette and £5/hank!

As for the Noro scarf, yeah, I used two completely different colours. I think it looks beautiful. And the mistake rib somehow makes it feel softer...
 
Does anyone know of a shop which sells Colinette - or do you all order it? I'd love to make a hat like Ruby's in chunky black wool with a stripe of something like point five cherry or jewel, but would like to see it in the flesh first.
 
Depends where you live. There's a list of stockists here but phone before you go because I traipsed miles once only to find the shop had closed down. I invested in a swatch card from Colinette (about 8 quid) so I can buy online and know roughtly what I'm getting.
 
I don't know how to knit. But after all this craft club talk *which I've been longingly lurking on* I pulled back out my cross-stitching. Here's to cozy nights of needles and thread and cloth.
 
innit said:
Does anyone know of a shop which sells Colinette - or do you all order it? I'd love to make a hat like Ruby's in chunky black wool with a stripe of something like point five cherry or jewel, but would like to see it in the flesh first.
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I don't believe there is a London stockist of Colinette. How daft is that? I was thinking of doing those hats with mine when it comes too.
 
After my too-small hat disaster, I knitted a tension square last night and found that I do indeed need to use bigger needles. Should I go up a millimetre do you think to 11, or even more? (The pattern says size 10).
 
moose said:
Depends where you live. There's a list of stockists here but phone before you go because I traipsed miles once only to find the shop had closed down. I invested in a swatch card from Colinette (about 8 quid) so I can buy online and know roughtly what I'm getting.
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Well blow me down with a feather! One of those is in Brighton, where I go fairly regularly, and another is in the small town where I grew up - will be heading that way to see my mum in the next few weeks!
 
Ms T said:
I'd need to check, but a couple of stitches or so.
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If the wool's super thick, try the next half size up. If thin, go for a full size. It's a pain having to experiment with needles if you need to buy them. Snuffyzee drew my attention to these marvellous things but I don't know if you can get them here.
 
Not that I know of. Ther is a much greater range of needles and wool available in the us. I'd love to be able to get the wonderfull hardwood needles they can get there.

With needles, I suggest you find a charity shop that is staffed almost exclusively by elderly women, you are almost guaranteed to get needles there. Dosen't matter if they are cheap ones, if you want to work a big project in that size, then you can buy newones once you know that size is right, cheap needles are also good to keep work on if you are like me and want to work a few projects at once. However, if yopu plan to start working wiht them, be aware that you can end up with a mixture of US, UK, metric and canadian needles, or even just old plastics where the label has worn off. Get one of those diddy things with holes in so you can tell what size your needels are.
 
moose said:
If the wool's super thick, try the next half size up. If thin, go for a full size. It's a pain having to experiment with needles if you need to buy them. Snuffyzee drew my attention to these marvellous things but I don't know if you can get them here.
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Thanks for this. :)
 
i reckon i need to buy a book on how to saw things together. on my little baby hat i used the pink yarn that i finished knitting the hat with. to saw the ends together so now obviously that doesn't look so professional in the blue part of the hat.

afterwards i met a lady who has done a little baby cardie and her sawing was just perfect. we had a little chat and it turns out there is a whole science behind that as well... :rolleyes:

haaach, this requires so much skill and yet could be reachable to me...it is a fabulous make happy thing to do:)
 
Choc said:
i reckon i need to buy a book on how to saw things together. on my little baby hat i used the pink yarn that i finished knitting the hat with. to saw the ends together so now obviously that doesn't look so professional in the blue part of the hat.

afterwards i met a lady who has done a little baby cardie and her sawing was just perfect. we had a little chat and it turns out there is a whole science behind that as well... :rolleyes:

haaach, this requires so much skill and yet could be reachable to me...it is a fabulous make happy thing to do:)
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I think if you were using a saw to join it together that might be the problem. :p

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I have finally finished the lacy scarf I was knitting for my mum. Just got to block it now, which is slightly nerve-wracking as I've never done that before.
 
wow.

I've just got to finish making the handles and put them on my bag, I've sewn up the sides and put a sort of star thingy on the front, it looks absolutely lovelly.

I got some needles at charity shops today, a couple of pairs of quite chinky ones, 7 and 10mm, and a whole load of fine double points. I also picked a handfull of crochet hooks for 10p each, and the debbie bliss baby knits book, my great lump is too big for a lot of the patterns in there now, but i'm sure i can adapt them into great lump size. And as if i didn't ahve enough to be getting on with, I just bought a couple of bools of something chunky to make a warm hat for fat boy.(sorry, my dearest beloved partner)
 
Ms T said:
I think if you were using a saw to join it together that might be the problem. :p
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ooops. i hope you know what i mean (vocab?)... :oops:

ruby, what do you mean by "just blocking it" together?

toogle, you are one lucky girl finding all this stuff in a charity shop...you have saved a lot of money...clever.
 
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