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Posted on 11/04/2005 4:17:07 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
So, can I be part of "the Circle" if I knit in a circle?
Welcome. I knit in a circle as well when I'm doing the hoods for the ponchos. I had troubles learning how to knit in my younger years, but I had a very patient mother who was an outstanding knitter. She use to knit her dresses, that's how good she was.
I was one of those knitters that if something was really scary on the television my knitting would get so tight that you had no idea as to what I was doing, let alone knitting.
Now as I watch Nascar, I don't knit to tight or loose, I just go like h#$*.
Of course you can! I've got a set of those things, too.
Yarn tension takes lots of practice. I still have rows that are looser than I like.
Thanks for the nice welcome. It's so funny, but even with my limited talent as a knitter, I have family asking me what I'm making and when I tell them it's a little blanket, they like it and ask if I might have time to make one for them sometime. It's cute, they say it like, 'well, if you want to practice on another one, my favorite colors are,,," It's kinda nice but I'm wondering if I am in for being the go-to person for the homemade blankets. Not that I mind, I'm just really, really slow.
Some folks need to be given a set of knitting needles and a ball of yarn....
Speaking of baby footwear, I need to rip out the seams in a pair of booties that didn't come out right. And my favorite yarn shop is having a sale this weekend. :-)
Yarn shop sales are a blessing...and a curse!
Anybody want a rude, bad mouthed, son who skipped school, didn't come home until very late and then didn't want to get up this morning do to something he's legally required to do today?
O my aching tummy. And I have to set an alarm clock to get his butt up on Saturday. And he doesn't want to deal with the fact that I am angry because he wanted me to call him in sick...(by making me mad, he can be mad at me for being mad at him....)
I hold the working needles in front of me, like knitting anything on straight needles.
It is easy to turn the work inside out though (which can be a useful technique if you want to make a cuff.)
I have to pass on the belligerent son. Mine is sweet but lazy and it wears me out keeping after him.
that'a what they all say...he went and found out they had mechanical equipment failure, so he gets credit for the time because he showed up. And now he's asleep.
I am so impressed by your beautiful work that I'm wanting to hurry and get my Christmas knitting done so I can start practicing the lace knitting. I did purchase a lace knitting book "A gathering of Lace", just got it and haven't had the time to just sit and read it. But what beautiful patterns. I also got a hank of yarn. I only hope I can knit lace as well as you. Thank you for sharing.
most lace is composed of yarn overs; k2tog; sometimes slip 1, k2tog, psso; and then yo twice (or more. 0n the next row you will k1 in one loop, p1 in the next loop)
It's amazing what you can do with those combinations.
a nice simple one from the 1840s is cast on an even number of stitches. sl the first stitch of each row, and end each row in a k stitch.
The pattern is: yo, k2tog.
I do a slight variant on this, by doing, yo, k2tog through the back loops, instead of the front loops.
each row is the same.
Makes a nice airy fabric.
Another nice one is cast on an even number. k2tog, yo across. Row2, purl across, row 3 k across, row 4 p across. Repeat from row one. In the Workman's Guide, they call this the shawl stitch. A varient for it is to k rows 2-4.
Go lookie here:
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns-lace.htm
just found it!
I missed today's yarn sale but probably saved a small fortune. Rats.
that's why it's a blessing and a curse...if you make it, you're in debt, if you miss it, you're richer, but missing all the neat stuff...
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My wife who does a lot of quilt making, needle point and cross stitch had learned a little crochet craft some thirty years ago. She recently went to an evening adult ed class and was quite pleased with what she was able to learn in about six weeks of once a week class. Of course, she practiced beyond just attending and as a needle work fiend she was committed to learn, but ol' Rosey Greer was a big needle point master, so I guess we guys can learn if we put our minds to it.
Wow! What a wonderful site. I can see where I'm going to have some real fun.
I played around a little this afternoon out of my new lace book and found the patterns fun to work with. My husband will have to blow up the pattern so I can see it better. When I like a pattern I have him make me more than one so I can write on them without worrying, plus it gives me notes for my next project.
Thanks for the site.
And now I've gone crazy...I'm getting the urge to make a very elaborate piece of Filet Crochet lace...
But if I go even crazier, there's a pattern in the Modern Lace Knitting 2 that is a knitted altar lace, and I would have to be crazy to even think of starting it...
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