Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

[moose]

You've learned some handy techniques along the way. so it's all good.

I've just embarked on this - ever the glutton for punishment

 

[Biddlybee]

Blimey

Will be a good while before I can tackle something like that!

 

[moose]

It'll be a good while before I finish it

 

[Popsicle]

Near where I live (er..vauxhall!) there's a fantastic shop called IKnit. Lovely fellas in there knitting away and you can go in to knit or chat or just hang out. Love it.

Thanks for this! Finally somewhere nearish to me to buy wool and bits.

I found their website too - they have a club night this Sunday with djs, bands...and knitting!

 

[RubyToogood]

Well the new issue of knitty is out. And there's nothing I want to knit on it at all. Either it's a crap issue, or.... I've really lost the will to knit

 

[moose]

It's probably not you, it's them. Nowt on there to spark my interest either. But then I'm working my way through the free Berrocco patterns

 

[gaijingirl]

No I wasn't impressed by the latest knitty either. But maybe we could take this on as a group project?

(BTW - it's a real pain that this thread isn't a sticky)

 

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i think i have just lost the will to knit.

 

[aqua]

thats just wrong

 

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ti's the kid playing with the dad that is just so wrong

 

[Biddlybee]

All of it is so wrong

I've finished my scarf (finally something for me) and made a hat using a pattern Choc gave me.. just in time for some blustery coastal walks... yay

Oh and my mum said she liked the curly-wurly corkscrew scarf and wants the pattern (maybe to make it in a colour she'd prefer )

Next project... tank top for my niece (gloves are still on hold )

 

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and I think i'm finally starting to get the hang of crochet. I've just made a few braceletty thingies to start getting the hang of what i'm doing with the basic stitch. i'm also going to get round to making that crochet shawl that ruby was making ages ago that i liked then and have been meaning to do for ages.

 

[RubyToogood]

Was that the green one that looks like spinach? It's quite cool but I've worn it maybe twice, and one of those was to craft club.

 

[moose]

I'm still knitting that black lacy thing. It's not growing very quickly, and it's complicated enough that I can't do something else at the same time, but not so complicated that I don't get bored.

 

[RubyToogood]

I have managed to make myself go on with my grey coat/long cardigan but am still dubious about it turning out ok. At least it grows quickly.

 

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spinach?

the one like loads of doilies stitched together.

and i've made 6 plain crochet wristbands, now gonna make a set of cuffs with the leftover baby alpacca and then knit something.

 

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or ply some of this collection of singles wrapped around bog rolls i have in front of me

 

[RubyToogood]

spinach?

the one like loads of doilies stitched together.

Yes, I think that must be the same one. That green Summer Tweed just makes me think of creamed spinach.

 

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don't tell GG that when she's wearing her hoodie.....

 

[Biddlybee]

I've finished my scarf (finally something for me) and made a hat using a pattern Choc gave me.. just in time for some blustery coastal walks... yay

I think I'm allergic to this wool or something it's been treated in - came up in a horrible rash after wearing my scarf

Fingers crossed it'll be ok after a wash.

 

[Biddlybee]

I've got to a stage on this little tank top where I have to shape the shoulders and neck.. and (surprise ) I've got a few questions, because what I've done doesn't look quite right. Can someone give their opinion on this....

Cast off 3 sts, K until there are 6 sts on the right needle and return, leaving rem sts on a holder.
Work each side of the neck separately.
Cast off 3 sts at the beg of next row.
Cast off rem 3 sts.
Here I carried on on the same row, so effectively casting off 6 sts - is that right?
With RS facing, slip centre 13 sts onto a holder, rejoin yarn to rem sts, K to end.
By K to the end the left side is slightly higher than the right side - an extra row in effect - it looks wrong
Complete to match first side, reversing shaping.
Does this mean to cast off on the WS so they look the same?

I've followed what I think I'm supposed to do, and both the shoulders look the same (i.e. mirror image of each other) just worried that I've done the casting off wrong on both sides... and about one side being higher than the other.

Cheers

 

[Biddlybee]

This is what it looks like at the mo...

 

[RubyToogood]

I've got to a stage on this little tank top where I have to shape the shoulders and neck.. and (surprise ) I've got a few questions, because what I've done doesn't look quite right. Can someone give their opinion on this....

Cast off 3 sts, K until there are 6 sts on the right needle and return, leaving rem sts on a holder.
Work each side of the neck separately.
Cast off 3 sts at the beg of next row.
Cast off rem 3 sts.
Here I carried on on the same row, so effectively casting off 6 sts - is that right?

No it's not. I know this because I've just been through the same thing. It means cast off 3 stitches at the beginning of the row, then knit to the end, turn, and cast off the other three. That's why the other side is higher. If they meant cast off 6 stitches, they'd say so.

 

[RubyToogood]

Here you go:

Cast off 3 sts, K until there are 6 sts on the right needle and return, leaving rem sts on a holder.

I think after leaving the stitches on the holder, you knit back to the armhole.

Work each side of the neck separately.
Cast off 3 sts at the beg of next row.

then knit to the end of the row and turn

Cast off rem 3 sts.

With RS facing, slip centre 13 sts onto a holder, rejoin yarn to rem sts, K to end.

Complete to match first side, reversing shaping.

It means make it come out the same shape by casting off in the same places - but because you're knitting it from the other side you'll be doing it on the purl row rather than the knit or vice versa

I hope that's right. You should end up with a shoulder shape that slopes down from the neckline to the armhole.

Actually ignore me, I think I'm talking bollocks.

Edit again: actually I think I'm not talking bollocks and that's more or less right. You're doing two lots of casting off 3 at the armhole end, and one lot at the neck end, on both sides.

That said, you do sometimes end up with an extra row on one half of a garment like this (that's what was confusing me I think).

 

[Biddlybee]

Cheers Ruby.. I've redone it and it looks better than before, but still not quite right:

Think I'll look at again tomorrow - my heads starting to hurt!

 

[RubyToogood]

I think I edited my post just as you were replying, have a look.

Meanwhile, I'm steaming ahead again with the coat now. Having finished the back though, holding it up to me I'm fairly convinced it's going to make my backside look the size of a house. Which it is, but no need to draw attention to these things.

 

[moose]

That looks ok to me, biddly, as long as both sides look the same - I can't quite see if the left side last row is the same as the right cos I'm on a tiny screen.

 

[Biddlybee]

That said, you do sometimes end up with an extra row on one half of a garment like this (that's what was confusing me I think).

Ahhh... I think I need to do the left hand side again then... where it says "rejoin yarn to rem sts, K to end" I presume it means knit to the arm hole - I tried it by rejoining the yarn at the arm hole and going inwards I'll get there in the end.

Good news on your coat (the steaming ahead not the arse bit)

 

[Biddlybee]

ok.. I may be overcomplicating things for myself here... but with the left shoulder if I join the yarn where the stitch holder is and knit to the edge then start casting off then the left side will be slightly higher. At the moment I've got it so they're the same, because I joined the yarn on the left and just started casting off.

Silly question... is it better to follow the pattern so they're uneven? Or leave it as it is now (above)?

I should go to bed

 

[RubyToogood]

Ahhh... I think I need to do the left hand side again then... where it says "rejoin yarn to rem sts, K to end" I presume it means knit to the arm hole - I tried it by rejoining the yarn at the arm hole and going inwards

Well, theoretically actually I think you were right to do that, and if you do it again my way it'll come out longer again. I'm not convinced what you've done is really wrong. Why do you think it is?