| Knitting WIP |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|10:14 am] |
Cross-posted to other knitting blogs in the hope of breathing some life into them!!
My mum taught me to knit when I was 5, and i've dabbled with it off an on since then, but not as seriously as I have in the last six months. I have since taught myself to knit socks and baby jackets while having a lot of fun.
( Socks behind here! )
I made a deal with my boyfriend, if I knit 10,000 baby hats we can have a baby! Haha. If I ever get to 10,000 we will be broke!
( Baby hats galore! )
I'm a cheap knitter, so I'm always keeping an eye out for wool on sale or good discounts. In the photo of my stash, the larger blue and purple balls of wool only cost $1.99 NZD per 100gm, which is by far the cheapest, and it knits up nicely as well as the fact that it just feels good!
( And finally my stash! ) |
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[Mar. 7th, 2008|09:04 pm] |
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. |
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| floppy hat? |
[Jan. 18th, 2008|05:00 pm] |
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hello fellow knittsters
I am in dire pattern need. I want to make a hat like Rachel Bilson wore to that Teen Vogue party (you've probably seen the pic on TV a billion times but there's a pic behind the cut.) but I can't seem to find a pattern. it's like a floppy oversized beanie type of deal. can you help? thaaaank you.
( need fun floppy hat! )
X-posted to various other communities. |
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| vikings dog sweater |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|12:48 pm] |
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hey guys. I have a random request to make. I was wondering if you could turn this pic into a intarsia pattern for me? I know I have a website that can do that somewhere but I can't seem to find it. my dad is a HUGE Vikings fan, and he's also obsessed with our dog, Nemo, a schipperke, and I want to make him a dog sweater with this logo on it. (check out the custom dog sweater generator. it was on yesterday's stitch n bitch dialy calander page (I'm kinda obsessed....) www.thedietdiary.com/cgi-bin/chart_dog.pl) help if you can! thaaank you, avid fabitty fab fab knitters and such.
X-posted to various other knitting/craft groups |
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| HELP! Help! Help! |
[Apr. 24th, 2007|09:30 am] |
Hi guys!
I read this article that someone wrote about the recycled sari silk yarn. It was first person, almost a story of this woman's travels to India and Tibet where she describes the beauty of the yarn and the people so well I can almost taste the curry and feel the hot humid wind on my skin. I've been search my book marks but I can't find it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Do you have a link? *begs* |
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| sock done! |
[Sep. 14th, 2006|01:07 pm] |
By glanna
Well considering I ran out of yarn midway thru the foot and
changed from #3 needles to #5's at the ankle it doesn't
look half bad And it fits fine. However now I have to knit
this sock a mate. Hopefully a second sock will go faster as I
have my 1st trial sock done. |
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| Help! Someone stole my pattern! |
[Aug. 6th, 2006|10:21 pm] |
Let me backtrack.
Last year, I went on honeymoon and bought the Spring 05 Interweave Knits. I fell in love with the pattern called "A Good Bias." I knitted it, then stored the magazine for a while. I decided to knit it again, and started carrying the 'zine around with me. After a while, it fell apart, and I began carrying just the page with the pattern on it with me.
One day about two weeks ago, I went out to my car to go to work in the morning, and someone had thrown a landscaping brick through my window to take my purse, which he or she apparently fancied.
I've looked for the pattern everywhere, and all I can figure is that it must have been folded up in the purse when it was taken. I am about halfway through the second sleeve of the work, and I have the whole thing memorized except the three increase rows (where I am right now), and the number of repeats for the remainder of the work.
Does anyone have the 05 Interweave who would be willing to help me? I only need the graph of the second sleeve. I can photograph my WIP and my falling apart fall issue if necessary to show I'm telling the truth.
Thanks in advance. misslilly at gmail dot com.
x-posted like a crazy woman |
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| The finished result |
[Nov. 4th, 2005|09:11 am] |
Remember last week, when I bugged ya'll about figuring out my son's hat? I did use 84 stitches, and made it about 6" long before I started the decreasing. I used dpn's for the last 3 rows, and then ran a needle through the remaining stitches, pulled shut. I also used the suggestion to do the ribbing on straights, and sew a seam. I washed it, dried it, now it is in the mail. I hope it fits him! It was just a little big on me and my husband, which is good because our boy's head is big, 23" around, and he has big hair so to speak.
You can see it behind the cut. Thanks to all who helped!
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| Do you think this will work? |
[Oct. 30th, 2005|09:47 am] |
I know, I need to just Do It and see, but I thought I would run this by and see what suggestions you might have....
My son wants a hat. He's 19, his head measures 22". So, I bought 3 skeins of mission falls superwash. I kind of combined 3 patterns and here is what I am thinking:
I gauged a swatch on size five circs, 18 stitches = 4.5" Which is 1" = 4.5 stitches. Which would be 90 stitches for the 22" circumfrence, after decreasing by 10% as one pattern suggested. I don't have smaller circs (16" circs, that is)than size 5 so for the ribbing, I thought I would decrease the number of casted on stitches to 81, then do ribbing for 10 - 12 rounds, then on the next stockinette (0r just k row since it is on circs) I would increase one stitch every 9 stitches, to get 90 stitches. Knit for about 4 more inches? and then start the decreases, (here I borrowed from the Kittyville hat), place markers every 10 stitches, decrease at each marker, every other row 4x, then every row until I have 9 stitches left, then do the finishing. Of course I will go to dpn's when I need to. (I lost one the dpns, so I will be working with 4 not five, but oh well.) (I will be putting an occasional stripe in, but I am not worried about that at all)
Does anyone see any bizarreness about this?
Thanks in advance for any input! |
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| My first sock |
[Aug. 20th, 2005|05:18 pm] |
I'm using the sock calculator to make my frist sock. I'm about at the point of turning the heel and I'm confused as to which stitches the pattern wants.
Instructions
Put 20 stitches, centered on the marker, on a needle 1 size smaller than your regular needles Put the other 21 on a scrap of yarn on aholder
Work the heel back and forth in stockinette stitch on the smaller needles, slipping the first stitch on each row, for 14 rows. The rectangle should be about 2.2 inches long. End with a knit row.
Which 20 stitches. The first 20 in a row, the back 20, front twenty? |
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[Aug. 19th, 2005|09:31 pm] |
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hi all! i'm new to the community, but not to knitting. like a lot of people here, i think, i've been knitting for a while but i only became serious about it / starting doing moderately trickier things, in the past handful of months.
in that time, i've knitting a handful of scarves, a handful of cabled hats, a pair of fingerless gloves, and two sweaters. i've been having a great time with it, especially the sweaters, they're my favourite to do, i think because you put so much of yourself into them.
aaanyway, now that i've waxed philosophical, a bit, i have a question.
i have an idea for a sweater i'd like to make, and unlike the previous two sweaters i made, which were sort of oversized drop shoulder sweaters, i'd like this one i'm sort of designing in my head to be more fitted. not...constricting, exactly, but only 2-3 inches of ease. so my question is this: if i do this with drop shoulder sleeves, will they pull funny? i read somewhere that drop sleeves on a more fitted sweater pulls oddly and i was just wondering if that's true. if it is, does anyone have any advice for a way i could do the shoulders that doesn't involve too much complications, but still looks nice? i'm mostly afraid that i'll knit it in raglan or set in sleeves and the sleeves won't match the body.
anyway, i'm sorry if this is too un-intermediate, and thanks for the help in advance!
-becca |
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| a question about felting |
[Jun. 27th, 2005|10:17 am] |
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so, in theory, anything over 80% wool blend will felt, correct? does anyone have experience with felting wool-ease? i have a ton of it in my stash and i would love to use it up, but i also know that you can wash it, so i don't know if it will felt. thanks for your help. |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2005|09:22 am] |
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I'd like to know how to stitch letters onto my knitting? I've googled, but I can't really word it right to get the answer I'm after. Any suggestions? |
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[Jun. 19th, 2005|10:21 pm] |
I made my first ever real thing last Sunday - a beanie type hat. Since then, heaps of my friends have asked me to make them one, each a little different. I've had a request for one with kitty ears. I bought a pattern, but I can't really understand it, so I decided to try something myself. I'd like to add little pink triangles inside, but I don't want the pink showing through on the back. I'm guessing that I'll have to double knit that part, but I don't really understand any of the "How-to's" that I've found online. I would really appreciate any help that anyone could offer.
This is what I've come up with on my own. I've knitted the larger triange and then two smaller for the inside part - one in matching grey and one pink. I sewed the grey one to the ear and the pink one to the small grey one so that the pink doesn't show through on the back.
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[Apr. 22nd, 2005|03:04 pm] |
i. hate. casting. on.
i hate casting on 110 stitches and realizing there's not enough tail left for the remaining 94.
anyone have a way to tell how much room to leave yourself when casting on long tail? |
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| here's a question for you.. |
[Apr. 22nd, 2005|06:38 pm] |
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..sometime in june, it is my father-in-law's birthday. he is difficult to get something for as he has everything he wants, and doesn't really want for much at all. he can often be a grumpy and particular so-and-so and yet i have still got it set in my mind i am going to knit him something as his present.
however - it's edging towards summer, so don't want to do a scarf or hat - i could probably get his wife to get his measurements for me but the realms of jumpers might not go down too well as he is -so- particular. also, home stuff like cushions/blankets he leaves upto his wife too - he's a very clokey bloke and doesn't care much about furnishings or anything that might vaguely be considered to be the realm of the woman. he is a painter & decorator by trade and so i thought maybe something related to that? if the worst comes to the worst i will go for socks (and expect him to not wear them as he places no importance in socks and is the kind of bloke to wear them until the heels no longer exist and not notice anything!)
i was wondering if any of you had any suggestions for anything fun and possibly useful i could knit for him bearing in mind all of the above?
x-posted to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) brit_knits, 20sknitters, novice_knitters & lj user="middle_knitters"> |
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[Mar. 14th, 2005|12:22 pm] |
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Alright, I found this great wool sweater at goodwill that I'm going to be reclaiming shortly.One problem is that I don't like the color as much as I originaly thought. Would it harm the yarn if I bleached it? And maybe colored it a different color? Could I even do that? lol Thanks. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2005|10:44 pm] |
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Hello, just joined, and I have a question. Would yarn that's 80% acrylic, and 20% wool felt? Or is it an impossible goal? and also woud it block. I started to use this yarn in sweater, and I messed up the gauge ::blush:: So I debating to either block the sweater (I have the front done.) rip it out and start again on bigger needles or rip out and use it in a bag (preferably a felted bag) So I figured I'd ask some more experiences knitters. :-d Any help would be appriciated Thanks!
-Al |
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