A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott
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Posted on 10/12/2005 6:35:50 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
I love to crochet, I tried learning how to knit never got it. Right now I'm working on a cross-stiched crib blanket for my little niece or nephew.
socks are not hard, especially if you don't kitchener the toes. Have you knitted on double pointed needles?
Tatting is sort of like netting...I like to do thread work too, crochet or knit, but I never mastered tatting...I have a couple of old bakelike tatting shuttles running around the place, but they don't do me much good.
This is the easiest pattern I have found for knitting socks:
http://www.woolworks.org/patterns/anothersox.txt
if you can handle knitting in the round and understand how to sl 1 k1 psso, k2tog, and slip, knit, and purl, you can knit these socks, except there's an easier way to close the toe. Faster too - when you get to that last row where they tell you to kitchener the toes, you just cut a long tail of the yarn, grab a yarn needle or crochet hook, and run the yarn through the last 8 stitches, take your needles out and pull it closed like a drawstring. Run the yarn through a couple of times, and run it through to the inside, secure it, and you're done.
I never graft toes closed any more.
My hubby bought me an old pull along camp trailer, you know, the silver round ones...
I took the table and seats out of the front, and that is where I put my quilting loom...fits really good there. I took the bed from the back out and he made me a table for my sewing machine, and a cutting board, and a peg board on the one side without a window, and I hang my rulers, etc. on it, like pinking shears, etc.
I took the stove out and the sink, and nailed a board across there for when I cut pieces for my quilts. The cupboards I use to store yarns, materials, threads, my needlepoint loom, etc and I can hang the material until I'm ready to use it and it doesn't get rinkled. I also have my ironing board on the cutting board, you know one of those little table top ones. All my curtains are in lace, which lets in alot of sun, its parked in the shade of a pine tree in the summer so it stays cool, I have a radio in there to listen to and it works out really great....
That is so pretty...I can knit, but do very little of it....I once tatted a doily...once, never did it again...lol
I only started getting really serious about knitting about 5 years ago. Now I am a semi-pro and write patterns (although I haven't actually written one down in a year or so.) Before that, about the only things I knitted were scarves. I made two Dr. Who scarves, and they were fun...
That sounds like such a neat crafting area. Mine is spread in bits and pieces all over the house.
I finally finished those socks but have yet to start another pair! I have been on a baby bootie binge lately, making things for friends and family. And if anyone has any ideas on whittling down or organizing a stash, please ping me.
That's beautiful. It looks like it was inspired by nature.
I've been sorting out some of my needles today...I think I've been trying to keep Inox in business by buying sizes 0 and 1 in outrageous numbers...
Sadly, I now have to wear reading glasses to knit on anything smaller than a 6. I can't imagine working on 0 or 1.
I'm just glad my beads are small - my stash is much smaller than her stash.. Heck, my bead stash is smaller than her bead stash. :) That yarn stash though.. I'll have to let Ladypixel explain it. It is beyond my words.
Terrific thread. Smile.
Oooooh, crafting thread! Yaaaay!
I knit, crochet, spin yarn, cross-stitch, weave, do beadwork, leatherwork (predominantly soft leathers, though - I hate stampwork with a passion), quilting and other sewing... I guess the best description for my habits/hobbies would be "fiber artist", although I'm only a pro in a few select areas of the above. Most anything I do with yarn, I do for fun and relaxation, but a lot of the rest of my hobbies I do for cash, too.
And as my husband mentioned, I've got a helluva stash. My yarn stash is probably up near a couple hundred skeins now, and that's not counting stuff I haven't spun yet (most of my stash is /not/ handspun, mind you). I'm in dire need of replenishing my fabric stash because it's gotten under one box at this point, and there just isn't enough there! And I won't even get into the beads and leather, because, well, if I run out of something at home, I just get more at work the next day. :)
If I had more space, I'd add woodworking and tile mosaic to the list of stuff to do, but alas, I'm almost out of space to sit in!
I am perpetually guilty of stash replenishment in virtually any craft project, even when I really don't need it. If I see a good deal on, say, sock yarn... well, it comes home with me. Same applies with any other yarn that strikes my fancy.
Can't help it; I love the colors and textures of virtually any form of fiber artistry that's out there. I can blame my grandmother for starting me down this road, but she certainly never has had the size of yarn stash that I've got now!
Some of my crafting is for reenactors, but the stuff that I do the most of (and gain the most happiness from doing) is just for myself and/or a handful of friends and family. And honestly, I do far more of that stuff than I do business-oriented crafts. Right now, I've got three pair of socks on the needles (I don't do circular needles, though), three scarves, a pair of slippers I need to finish knitting so I can felt 'em, a blanket on the knitting machine, and that's just my knitting projects. :)
Thanks for starting this thread... I was wondering if any freepers were crafty-types, too!
Ladypixel, you're in good company here! I have stash for knitting and crochet in yarn and cotton, sewing, free embroidery in both silk and cotton, finger weaving, inkle weaving, I have a tapestry loom to do erzatz navaho style weaving that my dad made me, a 32 inch asford rigid heddle loom, but it is in its' box right now, a majacraft double treadle spinning wheel, multiple drop spindles, a carder, cards and combs for wool processing, dyestuffs and equipment, paints and canvas (although I haven't done that in awhile), beading stuff (but I am just a novice and don't really do much), three sewing machines (from a merged household when I got married. He had one, I had one, and I bought another, but I sold the serger, which was my mom's, cause I had never used it.)
I don't have the hugest yarn stash, cause I specialize in things like socks and small items, and so I buy my yarn in 100 gram amounts. But it's amazing how fast that piles up.
I have fabric for the quilts I'm intending to make, fabric for the reenactor clothes I am going to make (I have an excuse now...been on a diet for seven months and don't dare make any period clothes until my weight stabilizes), fabric for the curtains I am going to make...and so on. Not the hugest stash, but all natural fabrics like linen, cotton, silk, wool...
And I have a small collection of antique needlework supplies, like silk threads from the 20s, lots of vintage knitting needles, even a few bone ones...a quilt frame, a dress form that is too large for me (I'm saving it to stand next to the one I'm going to get in the future, so I can stand them next to each other), a large box of patterns that are too large for me (nice feeling!), my mom's stash of craft books, my stash of craft books...
I've joked with my hubby. We need a double house. One to live in, one to play in.
Hah! :-)
I have an 8,000 pice jigsaw puzzle of the Sistine Chapel that I plan to open this holiday season. The finished size will be 3' X 9'. My husband has to make me a custom table for me to work on.
I have plan to knit a bed-size miniature garden next year.
So many outrageous plans, so little time,
Pinz
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