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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

at some point, i need to elarn how to read crochet patterns, i've made a few things using crochet but i've not yet learnt how to make sutff other people designed.

i think that shall be one of my resolutions for 2009
 
I've just learnt to knit! Well, learnt to cast on and do rows of knit stitch, anyway. I might just make lots of dfferent coloured squares and then knt them together for a blanket (got lots of different coloured wool cheap at Wilkinson's).
 
scifisam said:
I've just learnt to knit! Well, learnt to cast on and do rows of knit stitch, anyway. I might just make lots of dfferent coloured squares and then knt them together for a blanket (got lots of different coloured wool cheap at Wilkinson's).
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That's what I did now years later on I can only manage a scarf :oops:
 
It's worth learning the basics - your blanket will look infinitely better finished with a very simple edging, even if it's only a chain.
 
I'm currently crochetting a blanket to use up leftovers from other projects. at the rate i create the leftovers, it may be done by 2011
 
moose said:
It's worth learning the basics - your blanket will look infinitely better finished with a very simple edging, even if it's only a chain.
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I suppose I wouldn't have to buy any extra wool to do that, just a hook... hmmmm... you're a bit too persuasive moose :D
 
hehe.... well, that's how it starts. Someone suggests you might like it, you resist for a while, but then one day you think, 'hey, why not', and you give it a go. Before long, you're doing it a little more regularly, but heck, you haven't got a problem, oh no, it's purely recreational. But after a while you find you can't do without it. You think about it all the time. It's not just the thing itself, it's the paraphernalia - the needles, the hooks... :D
 
Any bright ideas? I owe my niece and nephew xmas/4th birthday presents. I've seen a good pattern for a doll for the niece, and can give it some knitted doll outfits too, but am a bit stumped for ideas for my nephew. They're incredibly gender stereotyped children.
 
there are some amazing scultpural knitted jumpers in last weeks grazia magazine the one that caught my eye was by Gaetano Navarra....

i'm tempted to look in the john lewis wool sale but every year me and my mum go and fill up a basket in there, count up the cost, lose heart and put it all back! :D
 
RubyToogood said:
Any bright ideas? I owe my niece and nephew xmas/4th birthday presents. I've seen a good pattern for a doll for the niece, and can give it some knitted doll outfits too, but am a bit stumped for ideas for my nephew. They're incredibly gender stereotyped children.
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i made my 6-year-old nephew a fuzzy felt monster/pirate toy and a 10-year-old lad i know one of a sort of zombie thing. erm, if that helps at all!
 
Cheeky bastards changed it in between my adding things to my basket and getting to the checkout :eek: :mad:
 
Sooo here it is :)

Its definitely handmade but its finished and its holding together ok :cool:

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And my clever mother made sproggle a sack - once it outgrows it the buttons undo and it turns into a dressing gown thingy, I had one (brown of course :rolleyes: bloody 80's) and I lived in it.

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everybody needs a festival blanket :cool:

I don't feel the need to knit anything else though. Clothing doesn't really interest me.
 
that really is supa-dupa.

(both projects) well done :) i like the blue velvety edge as well on the blanket.
 
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