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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

If I did it, and managed to pick up just before the cast off row, I'd carry on in the pattern :) but the blocking will have worked by this evening.
 
moose said:
BB - if you could really be arsed, you could unpick the ribbing round the arms and neck, unstitch the shoulder seams and knit another couple of inches at the top of the front and back. Then redo the ribbed parts. It'd be a major faff, though, and probably put you off knitting for life. :D
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I thought about that, but such a pain I didn't bother to mention it. Also if you think about it, it might cause problems with the neck shaping etc unless there's a point where you're just knitting straight and not doing any decreasing for the neck.
 
RubyToogood said:
This map here of all the knitting shops in the UK says there are 2 in Oxford: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ms...51.791205,-1.246262&spn=0.21108,0.543137&z=11

(Port Meadow Designs sounds like the one you would want). If in doubt, just go in with the pattern and consult the sales assistant about what wool to get.
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oh, yes - there are those two... The first is a very small selection of exceptionally posh and expensive yarns, in a posh and expensive Jericho shop selling over-priced bric-a-brac packaged as poncey ornamentation.... for people with more money than sense.

The second out in Headington is the polar opposite. A small selection, of mostly baby suitable wool in pastel colours. And a poor selection of needles n the like. It's in a baby clothes shop.

:(

The one 10 miles away is pretty good though. Almost comparable to those ones you lucky peeps have in London town :) It's a nice cycle ride too!
 
Yay! The armhole
blocking worked... I'm a very happy lady. I can start on the swatch for the next project now :)
 
Can anyone help? Got myself into a bit of a mess :mad: :(

Got distracted last night while i was doing some very fiddly lace knitting. I didn't realise until several rows later, when i discovered i had the wrong number of stitches on the needle. I am absolutely hopeless at correcting mistakes. Normally i just start again from the beginning, but i've done so much, it would take me weeks to get to where i am now :(
Ideally i'd just like to undo the last 5 rows, but again, this will be very hard, because i'm using really fine mohair wool.

Do you think i could somehow pick up the stitches several rows down, before i made mistakes and put them on a stitch holder, and then just undo the rows above this? It's one row lace, one row purl, so i should be able to pick up stitches from the purl row, shouldn't I?
 
I think I made it sound more complicated than it is. You know on some stuff it says reshape when wet and dry flat? It's like that but you pin the thing in place so you change it's shape.
 
The blanket is finished!



Just in time to take camping...! It's a mongrel, but I love it :)
 
That is fantastic eme, and is going to be dead snuggly by the fire :)

I've only done 3 more squares since craft club :oops: 65 down 15 to go :rolleyes:
 
How much yarn do I need?

When I bought the yarn for the cardigan I wanted to knit, I made a point of looking up similar patterns in the same yarn to find out how much to buy and I still managed to fuck up. I think.

The cardie should be 21 inches long; the body is knit in the round and I have used one fifth of my yarn to make six inches of knitting (garter stitch instead of ribbing, four stripes of box stitch and st st). It's supposed to have long sleeves but at this rate I will only have one and a half balls of wool left.

Can anyone tell me what proportion of the total weight of yarn long sleeves require? If a cardigan calls for 500g of yarn, how much is long sleeve? How about 3/4 sleeves? I could make do with sleeves to the elbow, but I need to know now how much wool I'll need in case I have to make the body shorter.

This is what I'm making, in chunky weight wool: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall03/PATTsonnet.html
And I'm not knitting it sideways either, or mostly in garter stitch, but it is, still, approximately that shape.
 
AnnaKarpik said:
When I bought the yarn for the cardigan I wanted to knit, I made a point of looking up similar patterns in the same yarn to find out how much to buy and I still managed to fuck up. I think.

The cardie should be 21 inches long; the body is knit in the round and I have used one fifth of my yarn to make six inches of knitting (garter stitch instead of ribbing, four stripes of box stitch and st st). It's supposed to have long sleeves but at this rate I will only have one and a half balls of wool left.

Can anyone tell me what proportion of the total weight of yarn long sleeves require? If a cardigan calls for 500g of yarn, how much is long sleeve? How about 3/4 sleeves? I could make do with sleeves to the elbow, but I need to know now how much wool I'll need in case I have to make the body shorter.

This is what I'm making, in chunky weight wool: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall03/PATTsonnet.html
And I'm not knitting it sideways either, or mostly in garter stitch, but it is, still, approximately that shape.
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having seen a run out of yarn incident before now. please check your gauge and the size of your item.

if you have far to little yarn, it could be you are knitting something that will be too large for you to wear.
 
Bugger.

So, I could

a) risk ordering more yarn and have it from a different dye lot

b)order yarn in a different colour and make it stripey

c) knit something else.

Decisions, decisions!
 
I've finally finished my 80 blanket squares, so just (!) need to sew them all together.

They're a total hotch potch of colours, so the colour of yarn I use to sew them doesn't matter too much... but would wool/acrylic matter in terms of strength?
 
I've set myself the slightly hair-raising task of knitting a lace shawl for my friend who is getting married on the 4th of June - I basically have till next Tuesday to finish this :eek: :eek: :eek: I did start last Saturday and have done half or a bit more, so it should be doable, but I've literally had to knit in every spare moment.

And I've decided it needs some kind of edging. Ho hum.
 
It's basically just a big rectangle of feather and fan stitch. I sort of accidentally went into Loop and they had this wool a bit like Kidsilk Haze, exactly the pale coral pink that my friend's dress is and it just had to be done. There is NO WAY I could knit something like that Birch shawl I did in that sort of time, but this is a very easy stitch and I'm doing it on massive needles. It's GGH Kid Melange, which is finer but fluffier than KSH, so they give a bigger gauge for it.

It's looking so, so pretty at the moment. Everyone who sees it says "Oooh!" But I do think it would be better with an edging. I want to see if I can find one of those ones that you knit vertically as it were, and attach it as you go by knitting two together, but it's finding the right thing. I want something scalloped really as the dress is scalloped and all the nice scallopy patterns I've seen are crocheted. I've bought a book of crocheted edging patterns and might well just use one of those, but I do tend to think knitted edgings are better in this sort of wool.

Anyway. The main thing is to get it done, and then worry about the edging if I've got time.
 
Oooh! Purdy :)


That looks suspiciously like the pattern that I was supposed to post up for crustychick 50million years ago and still haven't :oops:
 
Did you get it done rubes? What was the edging like?

I've got three more rows to crochet on, then the blanket just needs the ends sewing in and a border/edge.

Getting a bit bored of the crochet though, so cast on a lacey cardy :)
 
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