one skein to rule them all...

I just joined this community. I'm an avid sock knitter, and will (soon, maybe) be starting the Rivendell sock pattern. Very LOTR-ish. Since my whole family loves LOTR I thought it'd be fun to find more ideas for projects!

I hope someone can help me.
I'm looking for a pattern for a lizard or a dragon. It seems almost impossible to find, but I have faith in my fellow knitters.

Hi there

I have been capable of knitting for many years but only recently decided I actually want to knit! Joined this community as it seemed VERY appropriate given my name :o)

Looking forward to reading all your posts and nosying at everybody's projects - and hope I'm not being too incredibly forward with this post!!

 

Rachel

I joined a few days ago, this is the first chance I had to actuly post anything. I am a mom of 2 kids they are 3 and 2. I knit, sew, and tons of other crafty things. I have not got the chance to buy Charmed Knits yet but it is on my book list. I have started knitting back in Febuary and compleated a few projects so far. I plan to have more projects finished by the end of next year. My Goal is to make A druids robe, Sweaters, Cloacks, Socks, and scarves by next december 31st. Currently I am working on a pair of arm warmmers from anti craft.com and a guitar strap with a celtic design. This link will take you to my latest jurnal entry which is an updated list of things I knitted so far this year. I plan to have much more knitted next year. I also forgot to mention I am knitting a Celtic guitar strap for a friend. I also plan to have it padded and lined soon. I am debating about a fun fur edging on it. Well enjoy and I apoligise for the bad pics. I can't wait until tax time to get my digital camera fixed!

Mae Govannen!

I've come out of lurking (Mirking?) to share some newly-found inspiration.
I have recently acquired a copy of Lavold's Viking Knits. I purchased this on purpose to see what I could learn of it, to turn to knitted garments such as  the folk of Rohan might wear. I'm also debating whether to take up the idea of combining naalbinding and knitting in the design of a garment.

Has anyone else seen this book? What are your opinions on it? I have read it through but not yet tried the patterns. Some of the directions, in particular the charts for corner knotwork, I find puzzling. The straightaways seem clear, and the embroidery embellishments for Fafner, the dwarf-turned-dragon, look fairly facile (but then I've always been more comfortable with my embroidery than my knitting).

I did discover that the runes she chose for her pattern set are not the same as Tolkien had purposed for Middle Earth; he used the Anglo-Saxon futhark, which differs slightly.  I'm going to begin work on patterns for letters not covered by those Lavold listed. I will endeavor to share the results of my experiment when I have tested my patterns, whereupon folk here can "proof" them for me.

Hi everyone, long time lurker here :)

I need some help. I had gotten a large white tree of Gondor intarsia pattern from this community, had made it into a scarf with looks fab, but I lost the pattern and it doesn't seem to be here any longer. Does anyone happen to have an extra, or know where I can find another that sssemi resembles it?

I would make it myself but I'm horrible with making intarsia graphs, mine always seem to end up looking wonky -_-

Thanks in advance!

xoavi

Hello! I just joined. It's a bit quiet in here, so I thought I'd post something I knit today...

( I offer it to you freely... )
It's a silly present for a friend =)

Really, there isn't.

So, I'd thought I'd post something.

It's not knitting, but still needlework, and I figured that since A. Nothing's been posted in a while, B. Crocheting and Embroidery have been brought up as well, and C. It's LotR related, I'd send it over.

I'm not sure if this page has been posted here before, but it's numerous cross-stich patterns based on LotR. Very interesting just to look at, but I can't imagine the time they might require!
Someone here might try them, though. :)

Hello all,
Was browsing in Hobbycraft of all places when i came across this Rowan Summer tweed yarn, which, although it wouldn't go into Dog's Tooth would be a fair facsimile of hte scarf.
there are two shades that look appropriate
1.Summer Tweed Exotic 512
http://www.knitrowan.com/html/yarn_results_detail.asp?productcode=17512&groupno=17
this one would probably need ageing somehow though it seems rather bright.
2. Summer Tweed Cape 511
http://www.knitrowan.com/html/yarn_results_detail.asp?productcode=17511&groupno=17

Hallo! I've lurked here for a while, though I've never posted before. I though you might like to see the baby present I made for the first son of one of my fellow elven archers:

( Read more... )

So, I had a big party this weekend with 20 friends and we watched the LotR:EE through. And, as a hostess gift, one of my guests gave me some yarn.

One skein of the yarn is 4oz. of grey wool, 2-ply, spun to a little heavier than a sport weight, although I wouldn't consider it a DK. The kicker is, it's supposedly made from the same batch of fleece from the same sheep which provided the wool for the fabric woven for the Lothlorien cloaks. It's 322yds, and I'm trying to see if I can get more.

Of course, I'm also not sure what to do with it. It's lovely stuff, with gorgeous sheen, and it's light enough for lace. I'm thinking a shawl or wrap....

( a pic )

Any ideas?

Later

There's more of it, apparently enough for about 3 sweaters. It may not be from the same batch of fleece, but it's definitely from the same flock (which is the only one of its kind extant). If anyone wants the contact info, let me know. $15 a 4oz. skein, + s/h.

Hi everyone :)
About a month ago I knit these Voodoo armwarmers from Knitty (they're really warm and comfy, by the way). On a recent viewing of FotR, I realized that Gandalf the Grey wears similar armwarmers -
( pictures and proof )
Anyway, I was rather excited to have inadvertently done some LotR knitting, and one of these days I'll learn how to knit with multiple colors and have a go at Pippin's scarf (which was one of the main reasons I learned to knit in the first place) :P

via embroidery

( 4 scarf pics )

All I can say is embroider folks.

( 1 pic )

Oh I so don't have time to work on this right now. But, since I went through the trouble to make a detailed graph (not that much work, actually), I figured I'd share it.

It's too big to post here, I think, so a link instead: here

It's a large graph, and it needs to be resized a bit to fit on 8.5x11 paper. In order to get the level of detail I wanted, I needed to make an extremely large graph. It crosses 108 stitches and 217 rows at a ratio of 20s x 27r for a 4" square.

Actually, when/if I make this, I may scale it even larger for even more fine detail. As it is, this would only really fit on a blanket or a coat unless one was working in thread, and even then it would not be small.

Lastly, I think I'd still do this in duplicate stitch. Intarsia would be a pain, and the color changes are just not frequent enough for fair isle work.

My LOTR Knitting has also been on the back burner a bit. I've been working on making Fellowship Bears to donate to a children's shelter in my area. They are just knitted bears dressed (and sized) like those of the fellowship/ LOTR. (I thought bears would be most appropriate considering the influence of Germanic literature on Tolkien's works and the importance of bear shifters in that collection of literature.

Lately, I've been lucky enough to score some scraps from my work (a book conservation lab) and have been making tiny red books to send off with Bilbo Bears and Frodo bears. Also, I've been knitting little cloaks for the fellowship to wear.

Tiny is good for me, since I'm much more likely to knit a cloak for a bear than for myself. But alas, applying to graduate school and finishing this semester has left me little time to work on my Teddybären.

Shelley

Hi all. To introduce, I've been knitting for about 15 years, and have gotten rather rabid (well, as rabid as a fundamentally lazy knitter can be) about it. I'm planning on starting up a small web business around it actually. I live in NJ and I'm currently in graduate school.

Anyway, I'm looking for large lace leaf patterns. I've several stitch books, but the patterns are invariably small. I'm looking for something to work some worsted weight green/gold wool/silk crepe into a shawl, and I'm at a bit of a loss. I've tried making my own falling leaf pattern, but every time I try the elements together, I invariably have too many or too few stitches!

So, before I go back to the graph paper and swatches, does anyone have a large leaf pattern that is (or can be modified to be) offset with eyelets? I'm looking for an "all over" pattern or something wide, with single motifs being at least 20st wide.

Incidentally, I've got the 4 Barbara G. Walker stitch books, as well as a few others. The closest I've seen to what I want is actually the Dayflower pattern, which I don't particularly want to try modifying!

listen up, everyone. i've been a very, very bad mod. i've allowed this journal to go HALF A YEAR without any lotr-knitting content. my only excuse? i moved in june/july, and i've been without broadband (hello dial up, ick) ever since then.

to kick things off, i think i'll update on MY lotr knitting... then hopefully that'll inspire you all to do the same.

i think i may have gotten your hopes up there. there really IS no progress on my lotr knitting. more than anything, i'd love to be able to finish my rogue, start on my ivy leaves felted bag, and start a riding-sweater (as inspired by arwen's riding outfit, of COURSE). however, i'm tweaking out about christmas knitting at the moment, and can NOT allow my mind to dwell elsewhere until i'm at least a little farther along. it seems like as the 'deadline' aproaches, my knitting slows down. some reverse-time-thingy... whatever.

ok, tag, you're it!

(i've added some interests to the info page, and i plan on talking-up the name of this community and doing some promo action in the upcoming weeks. or as long as i remember to do so, at least. i'd appreciate if you member-folk would help with talking it up yourselves, or perhaps suggesting more interests to add? thanks much!)

Firstly, before you pull out your swords, blades of Westernesse, arrows, axes, and horns, I would like to say that I have your lovely mod (feroluce)'s permission to do this.

Hullo, I'm Jackie, and I'm the mod over at hp_knitting. I am so glad to see such an interesting, and daresay, quirky, knitting community here on livejournal. As a loyal Ringer by birth (heh), I have come to extend an exclusive invitation to you, the all-knitting, all-pub-song-singing crap crafters of Livejournal: hp_knitting

hp_knitting is a community for those who have gone above and beyond the call of Harry Potter fandom to knit and crochet their way into the magical world they love. Since Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, while entirely separate works (which, in my opinion, should never be compared), fall into the same genre, I was hoping to have a few of you amazing people join our community.

As a fellow Ring Dork and knitter, and as the mod of a new and relatively small community, I would love to see you over at hp_knitting.

Namarie & <3
Jackie