Craft club topic of the month - knitting!
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AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
Yarn substitution question
OK, I've seen a pattern I like the look of - mostly like the look of - and I'm going to make a cardigan. I've even chosen the wool.
The problem is that I don't know how much yarn to buy. The pattern is for an aran weight wool on 5mm needles and I am going to use double knit on 4mm. My head is spinning from googling because I only seem to find US sites that don't knit in English. I haven't managed to find a cardigan pattern yet that is a similar shape and uses DK/4mm so I can even start to guess at the yardage needed.
Can some-one point me in right direction?
OK, I've seen a pattern I like the look of - mostly like the look of - and I'm going to make a cardigan. I've even chosen the wool.
The problem is that I don't know how much yarn to buy. The pattern is for an aran weight wool on 5mm needles and I am going to use double knit on 4mm. My head is spinning from googling because I only seem to find US sites that don't knit in English. I haven't managed to find a cardigan pattern yet that is a similar shape and uses DK/4mm so I can even start to guess at the yardage needed.
Can some-one point me in right direction?
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
moose said:
Well, no, it wouldn't if I used the pattern given. What I plan to do is make up my own pattern to produce the same garment provided I can work out how much yarn I need.
The question is how much yarn on 4mm needles to produce a close fitting cardigan of hip length with loose sleeves (ie non-shaped)?
moose
like some cat from Japan
Sorry, AK, I misunderstood. If you go to Colinette's website, and look up Cadenza, and have a look at the patterns for it - there are cardigans and simple jumper shapes in there and it tells you how many 50g hanks for 4mm needles. Cadenza is 120 metres per 50g, so you could work it out from there.
Toggle - I love that pattern - I made it in the kidsilk haze which has sparkly bits - it's lovely.
Toggle - I love that pattern - I made it in the kidsilk haze which has sparkly bits - it's lovely.
toggle
wobbly
http://toggleknits.blogspot.com/2007/04/and-start-of-pix.html#links
that's the wool i got from madzone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toggleknits/450992083/
that's the branching out being blocked
that's the wool i got from madzone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toggleknits/450992083/
that's the branching out being blocked
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
Jaw-droppingly impressive, toggle!
toggle
wobbly
toggle
wobbly
yeah, check through the photos, I've done all the stages of making sock yarn in it. i can definitely see why you recommended it as sock yarn, it's easy to spin a fine, soft yarn that has a nice elasticity.
and now you know why i wanted quite a bit, I get though supplies fast.
and now you know why i wanted quite a bit, I get though supplies fast.
I finally put together back and front of this baby cardie and managed to pick up and knit the border round the neck only to find that the sleeves don't fit into the armholes. Oh well. I suppose it's only a minor setback as it's only baby size and it won't take very long to knit the sleeves again, but still..
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Are you sure? Sleeves can sometimes fit a bit oddly into armholes.
RubyToogood said:
I think so - it looked like I'd have to stretch them quite a bit for them to fit. It is my first ever armhole fitting though and I can't be too sure.
But one of my (not-knitting) colleagues asked me if I couldn't just add a bit which I did: Undid the bound-off edge knitted back a few rows and am now increasing a couple of extra stitches either side which will hopefully do the trick!
It's got to work because I found out earlier this afternoon that baby was born yesterday!
For blanket thread, see here:
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=203784
Hope I got it right.
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=203784
Hope I got it right.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
RubyToogood said:
I'm still making my spinach coloured halter neck top!!!
Actually creamed spinach is yummm
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
(hopefully) a quick question...
I've finished the front and back of this tank top and now doing the neck and arm collar bits (forget the right name for them)...
Haven't got the exact instructions with me, but the front and back are joined at one shoulder... I have to pick up 10 stitches down the left side of the neck, pick up the stitches that were on the holder, then pick up 10 stitches up the right... then similar on the back (so I'll then have about 45-50 stitches on the needle). Then knit and do some ribbing.
I've got my head round that finally (thanks eme)... but if I use the same yarn to pick up the first lot of stitches and the ones after the holder there'll be a big loop accross the middle... do I break of the yarn and start again after the holder?
I've finished the front and back of this tank top and now doing the neck and arm collar bits (forget the right name for them)...
Haven't got the exact instructions with me, but the front and back are joined at one shoulder... I have to pick up 10 stitches down the left side of the neck, pick up the stitches that were on the holder, then pick up 10 stitches up the right... then similar on the back (so I'll then have about 45-50 stitches on the needle). Then knit and do some ribbing.
I've got my head round that finally (thanks eme)... but if I use the same yarn to pick up the first lot of stitches and the ones after the holder there'll be a big loop accross the middle... do I break of the yarn and start again after the holder?
toggle
wobbly
I'ts pretty much the standard way to do things, so much so that i can't really imagine you're going to be expected to do it another way without detailed instructions,
and you sort of are knitting the stitches you just picked up, because you do create a new row of stitches there as well.
and you sort of are knitting the stitches you just picked up, because you do create a new row of stitches there as well.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
ok, thanks toggle, I've never done it before. And you're right, I am kind of 'knitting in' the picked up stitches... fingers crossed there'll be a teeny tiny tank top ready in the next few days (or a me in tears ).
Knew there was something I forgot to ask eme last night
).Knew there was something I forgot to ask eme last night
here is a picci of the hat i have just finished (only that it is in blue). and this is my little cousins baby. hat courtesy of cousin too
the model is called teufelsmuetze. a well known pattern across germany..but my knitting goes so slowly...i wouldn't even take part in the blanket project because i am to rare a knitter...meh!
