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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

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Yay - finished the lacy top! after a few weeks' blood sweat and tears. Pic later....
 
That hat is adorable, Choc! (The baby's alright, too. ;)).

Hope you got on okay with your tank top, BiddlyBee - sounds exactly like what I had to do for this cardigan I'm making.
I finally managed to put the sleeves in yesterday and it's looking good! I've got no idea if it will be at all wearable for the baby, size and proportion wise - but I've comforted myself with the idea that maybe one day one of little Leonhard's teddy bears will get to wear it...
 
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good luck.
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Stuck already :rolleyes:

*hopes toggle is online*

I can't knit across the stitches on the holder, because I'm going from left to right getting all the stitches onto the left needle; and when you knit, the stitches go from the left needle to the right :confused:

Shall I just pop the stitches from the holder onto the left needle and carry on picking up stitches?

If I do that, which makes most sense, then I still have the problem of the loop of yarn.
 
huh?

you've lost me completely there.

when i pick up stitches, i work in the same direction as I knit in. if the holder is the wrong way round, i slip the stitches onto the left hand needle and knit off that.
 
Tbh I've lost myself.

The pattern says, with RS facing pick up and knit down left side of front neck, knit across the sts from the front holder and pick up and knit up the right side of front neck.... etc.

So I'm picking up all stitches onto the left needle, so can't work out how to knit across the holder :confused:

Think I'll just try and see what happens.. can always undo it (for the 6th time) :D
 
Biddly, can't you pick up the stitches onto the right needle, or, now that you've got them on the left just switch those onto the right needle (as if they were a part of a row that's already knitted) and then just knit the stitches that are on the holder?
 
I don't really know.. I've kind of muddled through it. I think... just got one row then cast off and I'll see how it looks :eek: :D

I'll bring it to craft club next weekend and see what people think :D
 
Well, it's far from perfect, but I've got a neck line and it's ribbed.

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She'll grow out of it within a couple of months anyway :rolleyes: :D
Now for the arm hole bits...
 
Little miss in her tank top...

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Glad I chose 6-12 month pattern; means there's plenty of room for her to grow into it ;)
Dad was happy it wasn't pink, because most of her clothes are! Success all round :cool:
Cheers to everyone that helped out when I got a bit stuck :)
 
QUESTION!!

I'm knitting in the round. my next instruction is, work 2 rows in st st, maintaining garter stitch selvedge.

Eh? whosat with the garter stitch what now? :confused: :D

Hayulp!!
 
Ah.. you've just inadvertently helped me answer my own question.

the answer is - i'm a total fuckwit! I was looking at the wrong instructions (there's various versions of the same top and I was looking at the wrong version... :oops: )

Thanks for trying to help me though..


*shuffles off red faced*
 
photocopy the pattern and write where you are up to on it. ot put it in cheap plastic folder and write on that, or get some post it notes.

just do something.
 
I've just finished making a Rowan top like this:
bonita.jpg


except mine is green. It's come out quite acceptably although there may have been a few small errors along the way :oops:
 
Wow, they all look lovely! It'll be interesting to see how they knit up, and how much the length of each bit of colour matters. I suppose it must be quite an unpredictable process, once you've picked bits off the roving to spin. What are you going to do with them?

I actually prefer the pink and blue to the pink and green, but hard to tell on a monitor.
 
my infinite blanket project.


I'm planning to use leftover bits of handspun and experiments to knit a multi directional garter stitch blanket. I've knit a couple of square feet of it and I'm expecting it to be big enough to use in a couple of years, but i'll keep adding to it until it gets to a silly sorta size
 
Has anyone else seen the Shreddie advert??? :D

Oh and the new Knitty digest - wotcha reckon?

I think there's maybe one or two things I would think about knitting - but still this and the last one have been the least inspirational to my mind.... :(
 
Yes, it's gone downhill a bit. But I guess that's down to people like us not submitting anything inspiring, so maybe we should get busy :D
 
:mad: :(

I had to undo my gloves yesterday (well ok, the cuff I'd got as far as doing)... I somehow turned the knitting inside out and did some cabling on the wrong side.. wondered for quite a few rows why it looked so odd :rolleyes: :D
 
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