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Craft club topic of the month - knitting!

RubyToogood said:
I just read a good knitting tip in my big knitting book: when you're starting a new ball of wool, don't take the band off it to use the end of wool that's on the outside - pull a thread from the very middle and use that end. That way the ball doesn't jump around when you pull more length off it.
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it dosen't work too well on some stuff. The cheap stuff i'm knitting my socks out of keeps tangling in the middle.
 
OK - I have finished the amateur scarf of homemade toil. It's long, it's stripey, it looks a little bit shit and very homemade but I love it.

Now I just have to cast off and i have forgotten how - does anyone have a super easy to understand link that I can use so that tomorrow I get to sport my chunk of woolly?
 
PieEye said:
OK - I have finished the amateur scarf of homemade toil. It's long, it's stripey, it looks a little bit shit and very homemade but I love it.

Now I just have to cast off and i have forgotten how - does anyone have a super easy to understand link that I can use so that tomorrow I get to sport my chunk of woolly?
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Hi PieEye

Just knit two stiches in the normal way then bring the first stich over the second and you are casting off :)
 
toggle said:
Once you get the hang of knitting, it dosen't seem that hard to make socks. I've had problems getting sock wool though, I ended up getting my mum to buy it for me in cornwall.
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the fabby old fashoned department store in Reading has some mad stripey sock wool that knits into stripes. Its so cool. If you want I could price it for you etc
 
acechick said:
The Life Aquatic
date: Saturday, 19 March
time: 12.30pm
venue: Ritzy cinema
Address: Brixton Oval, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW2 1JG
Tickets: £5/£4 concession (no need to book)

http://www.knitchicks.co.uk/



innit - congrats on your first FO! It's such a proud moment, huh?
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oooh.. is anyone going? Innit? I really want to see this film too! Only problem being that I'm baby and dog sitting that day... but may be able to leave the hoardes with Kublai for a coupla hours!! I'm very very close to sewing up my "patchwork" knitted blanket thingy... :D
 
I'm going to go with my mate Ilona... we have to set up the actionette's club later that afternoon but there shuld be time for some knitting and tea beforehand! :)
 
Brilliant.... I'm going to try and go too.... it will depend on how Kublai is coping with our houseguests, but if he's doing ok, I will definitely be down there! :D
 
gaigingirl, let me know if you think you'll make it... I'd like to go, it was so good last time :)
 
fuBganger said:
the fabby old fashoned department store in Reading has some mad stripey sock wool that knits into stripes. Its so cool. If you want I could price it for you etc
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If you want to give me an idea of what it's going to cost, then i'll go buy it myself when i need some, it's not that far away.

thanjks
 
Opal sock yarn

Regia sock yarn

Sirdar sock yarn

I always thought knitting socks was a bit pointless but seeing that Opal stuff I might change my mind...

I want some of this:
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Scarf has been worn!

No admiring comments from the general public as of yet and it is making me a little hot in this weather but I am sodding well wearing it :mad: . At my desk. At work...

Ok, not really....
 
I get impatient with sock yarn - it's so thin and weedy, and needs to be knitted on small needles.
 
Meet Stumpy!
Laydeez at Snuffyzee's Manchester Knit Night are making Trauma Bears for Community Service Volunteers. Anyone interested in using up some oddments of wool can find the pattern here Ignore the picture though - the pattern is very vague and comes out nothing like the diagram!
 
RubyToogood said:
Is that just the gauge, or is there something nasty about the actual wool?
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A lot of it's quite synthetic feeling and doesn't handle nicely, and can come in gruesome colours. The Opal stuff's not too bad. I prefer to use something a little thicker, and 100% natural, meself. :)
 
grmpf, i put my sock knitting project on ice for a while. those four needles really drive me crazy...often one would competely fall out of all the stitches and then i lost stitches and grrrrrr :mad: . i wait until i am with my mum again for guidance. now i am thinking about what to do next, i want to start this week on a new piece..? :)

how was knitflick yesterday? the weather was so lovely i wonder if anyone made it?

btw when is the next meeting planned? eastermonday? i would really be up for it?

:)
 
RubyToogood said:
I've just realised this is really the craft club topic of a couple of months ago... and we never had a crochet thread...
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maybe you could start one...i think it would be a good idea to have a seperat thread for crochet. btw lovely crochet hat on previous page..

:)
 
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