henrytheoctopus
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be it good or bad, i am disguising as a man... actually a girl. a very manly girl. a tomboy. all of it. but a girl, nonetheless... sorry!
Craft club topic of the month - knitting!
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gaijingirl
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henrytheoctopus said:
Ah! A tomboy...
You can keep me company! I got removed from a mixed school and sent to an all girls' school - in a bid to become more ladylike, aged 11, after knocking a boy's front teeth out and blowing up a neighbour's garden with homemade explosives. 
I even have a boy's name. Knitting has come as a surprise to me. henrytheoctopus
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That's fantastic!.... not for your neighbour's yard, I suppose, but still.. i'm thinking knitting would be something super different. Maestrocloud has moved to Paris, making me a said tomboy indeed.... I need something new like this, ya know?
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
BiddlyBee said:ok, I've got to a bit I don't fully understand in my gloves pattern...
I'm guessing that waste yarn is just a bit of yarn, about the same size/width as what I'm knitting with, but a different colour, so it's a marker (for when I go back to do the thumb hole...is that right?
If it is, how do I just start knitting with it? Don't I need to secure it to something?
That waste yarn isn't quite a marker; later on you're going to take it out to give you 'live' stitches either side of the thumb-hole. So you don't need to secure it to anything, it's coming out anyway.If you can hold one end of the waste yarn firm between some spare fingers it makes it a bit easier.
The first time I saw this method of making thumb-holes I practised first with some light-coloured yarn to make sure I had got the hang of it and could see exactly what was happening. Which I would recommend.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Cheers Anna, it does describe it in the pattern like that (that it's to make live stitches later)... it was more the starting of stitching those 7 that I was confused about, where do I 'put' or 'hold' the waste thread when I first knit?
Think I might practice on my other needles and see how it goes.
Think I might practice on my other needles and see how it goes.
BiddlyBee said:
Can't you do it as if you were changing colour at the beginning of a row? I never make a knot, just let the end of your new yarn hang quite long (and re-tighten the first couple of loops as I come back to them, but you won't need to worry about that, because you won't actually knit those stitches - the marker yarn is going to be removed later on, no?)
Ah, only just seen: AnnaKarpik has said it already.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Better late than never... a few photos from the jam making:
http://picasaweb.google.com/BiddlyBee/FruitPickingAndJamMaking230607240607?authkey=gMrgC7rxxIU
http://picasaweb.google.com/BiddlyBee/FruitPickingAndJamMaking230607240607?authkey=gMrgC7rxxIU
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Why do I have this delusion that I can alter patterns? I've just bought the new Rowan mag, meaning to knit this:
They've increased the size range (which is good), but I still need to scale it up one size. Why did I think I could do this? My head is going round trying to figure it out. Why can't people just write nice interesting patterns in my fucking size??? Why are Rowan so sodding stingy about their sizes? I keep buying proper jumper quantities of wool in the sales and then having nothing to knit with them!
I still have heaps of Jaeger fleece and a quarter finished coat thing from last time I attempted this.
They've increased the size range (which is good), but I still need to scale it up one size. Why did I think I could do this? My head is going round trying to figure it out. Why can't people just write nice interesting patterns in my fucking size??? Why are Rowan so sodding stingy about their sizes? I keep buying proper jumper quantities of wool in the sales and then having nothing to knit with them!
I still have heaps of Jaeger fleece and a quarter finished coat thing from last time I attempted this.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Oh sod it, it looks pretty baggy and my tension square is a bit big, I'll just knit it looser and see what happens. I expect it'll be a disaster but it'll teach me not to try that again.
Mind you, having seen the extreme skinniness of the models in that mag I don't think I am ever going to eat again, so perhaps I should just knit a size 8, and by the time it's done I'll fit into it.
Mind you, having seen the extreme skinniness of the models in that mag I don't think I am ever going to eat again, so perhaps I should just knit a size 8, and by the time it's done I'll fit into it.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
It occurred to me after the last craft club when I brought out all the coloured stuff I used to knit, that hardly anyone in the craft club does colour knitting (fairisle, patterns etc). Is that because you all don't want to (I don't think it's as trendy as it used to be, I don't do much of it myself any more) or because you don't know how and are scared? Because if it's the latter, we should do a colour knitting tryout next time.
Callie
Pivoting
I dont know how and and scared
Im even scared to try and do a multicoloured stripey scarf
would coloured knitting skillz means i could knit a jumper with a big picture of a fish on it like my nan made for my uncle who liked fishing??
it was scary! and i doubt it would have been any good to wear fishing cos it was yellow 
Im even scared to try and do a multicoloured stripey scarf
would coloured knitting skillz means i could knit a jumper with a big picture of a fish on it like my nan made for my uncle who liked fishing??
it was scary!
and i doubt it would have been any good to wear fishing cos it was yellow 
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
And I've still got in my knitting pile the wrap thing I started about two years ago.
