I found the Game of Thrones amigurumi patterns on Ravelry.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 27 April 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
The library bookshop had the original Principles of Knitting for $1!!!
The Strand is selling it for $100.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
And yet, with both versions and countless YouTube tutorials, I still can't quite get the tubular cast on.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can't get that either, or the tubular bind-off
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am pretty sure I did the bind-off and it wasn't bad.
I think I am just too impatient for provisional cast ons.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am totally *in love* with linen right now.Linen!
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
:O
ANYWAY why does linen have to be so expensive?
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'll bet it's a bitch to spin. I'm knitting up some DK weight Euroflax right now! Super spendy and like knitting a wire, but the sample knitted up in the store (a drapey open top called Twisted) was so gorgeous and had such a smooth heavy hand. I was totally sold and blew my entire yarn budget on 4 skeins.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Euroflax hurt my fingers.
If I washed the hand towel I made with it a few times, I'm sure it would turn out nice.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 05:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I went to the big yarn sale at my local shop. Louisa Harding for $1 a ball!! I haven't knit anything with all the sale LH I bought last summer, oops.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm going on a yarn excursion tomorrow with a visitor - involves knitting on the ferry, so extra fun.
Tried to stave off the yarn buying urge by organizing the part of my stash that is hidden in the basement, but it had no effect - I used all my birthday $$ on pretty pretty handpainted laceweights from Etsy and ThinkBamboo laceweight from Amazon.
― Jaq, Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
New yarn is pretty fucking hard to resist. Also it's an awesome birthday treat.I bought myself a ballwinder and swift as a grad-present-to-myself, but I haven't used them yet. I told myself if I ever got one, I'd rip apart all the (embarrassingly large #) of projects I didn't finish because I fucked them up too bad (or worse, two sweaters I gained too much weight during the process of making to have the end product fit). And then rewind the yarn and reuse it. Sounds very virtuous but now that I have the object I'd been telling myself was the key to doing it, I realize it sounds like the world's biggest pain in the ass. I'm thinking of just mercy killing a few of them, esp. the sweaters.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
Plus I recently reread the always great Knitting in Plain English and she makes it sound like the ripped apart, washed, rewound, reused yarn is not worth messing around with.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
If it's inexpensive yarn, I wonder if it would worth the effort. I can see trying to salvage expensive stuff though. Except not mohair, which I just don't like.
― Jaq, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
There's some reclaimed heathery green cashmere on Etsy I am seriously tempted by.
― Jaq, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
what weight is it?
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
I guess it depends on the yarn and how much you like it.
I did rip out a sweater and make a blanket out of it. It was somewhat crappy yarn but the blanket is still good.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
Abbs, it's like cobweb weight.
One of the women in my knitting group is a keen frogger - whatever she's working on, she will have ripped it completely back multiple times. Once we get back to a regular schedule, I'm going to talk about lifelines. Now I've finished a second diagonal garter lace shawl (vv simple pattern), I want to do some complicated lace, which seems to call for lifelines.
― Jaq, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am really, really fucking lazy about fixing my mistakes. Just the worst. I'll either leave in 10-20 semi-glaring ones or just give up and put it in my monument to sloth and rot, the unfinished objects graveyard.
In Las Cruces I had a friend who was very good about giving me a hard time about this and making me fix whatever, with a lot of laughter and bossiness, but on my own I'm just like 'fuck it.' I miss that friend. She'd untangle all my yarn for me, push me to be a better knitter.
I haven't tried to find a new knitting group in Tucson.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Thinking of lace - thanks superpitching! (if you are still around) I read all the way through this thread to find the lace shawl with the waves you posted, b/c it has haunted me since I saw it. I think my complicated next project will be this one from the same designer.
I'm pretty good about fixing things as I go, or figuring out if I can compensate for whatever I did wrong. Except with the lace, b/c man what a pain to unknit and I haven't sorted out how to use a crochet hook to fix things up like I can with garter or stockinette. I bought like a gross of unwaxed dental floss years ago, time to actually use it.
― Jaq, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh man, this one lady at knitting, is always ripping out. "Seventh time's the charm!"
After the 100th "I can't do that" or "I don't know how to do that" I told her "you can do it, you just don't want to." The shop owner agreed with me, ha ha.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 2 June 2012 16:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Going to a Stitch N Pitch game today. My friend likes baseball and I like knitting, so it works out.
Also, I think I have a project/pattern named after me.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 June 2012 14:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
TR I will bring my sad scarf project to NYC; we can knit and bra shop and FAP.
― quincie, Sunday, 3 June 2012 23:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
a project/pattern named after me
Oooh!!
Stitch N Pitch here is sometime in July. I might go this year, not with the group I went with the last time though.
Knit in Public is coming up! My ferry excursion today got squashed due to visitor misremembering when her flight was (9 pm, not 9 am). So i might KIP on light rail/ferry/bus or something.
― Jaq, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm always k'ing ip
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Monday, 4 June 2012 00:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
Like children's day, everyday is knit in public day.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh, now I really hope I have day off when you are here, quincie.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 4 June 2012 06:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
Me too!
― quincie, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's taken me a long time to get used to k'ing in public :(
― Jaq, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
I found projects from five or six years ago that I never finished OOPS. And they are all fingerless mitts, so it's not like they are big projects. I reknit the thumbs on one project in the round. I didn't think they looked that good knit flat and seamed.
I want to finish my angora Louisa harding sweater, but I am not sure how to attach the lace (knit in ribbon yarn) to the edges of the sweater.
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
So, how about them Ravelympics, eh??
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 21 June 2012 12:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
I've never participated - are you planning on doing it this year?
I'm headlong into lace knitting, to the point of making edging for my kitchen curtains:
That's rayon #10 crochet thread. I also bought some cording silk (used to string pearls normally, I guess?) to try out.
― Jaq, Thursday, 21 June 2012 17:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have been making this same dischloth pattern over and over. Too hot to work with anything but veggie fibers.
― the magic butterfly made everyone feel relaxed (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 01:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ravelympics controversy!http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/06/22/ravelry_olympics_usoc_apologizes_to_online_knitting_community_over_trademark_crackdown.html
After what happened to the organizers of the first ever Portland Sock Summit, people should know better than to piss off knitters.
― Jaq, Friday, 22 June 2012 20:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am probably going to be calling into a fellow knitter's Sportsy Talk radio show to discuss this next week.
And this after the Woolsack controversy
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
Knitters. You think they’re just sitting there, purl stitch, knit stitch, surrounded by wool, clicking away quietly. But really: these are people who have no idea, literally no concept, that there is any project so large they can’t finish it, no challenge too big to be overcome, one stitch at a time.
There is so much truth in this.
― Jaq, Friday, 22 June 2012 21:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Finished off the lace and sewed it on today:
― Jaq, Monday, 25 June 2012 01:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
Gorgeous lace, but I'm also trying to figure out just what in the heck is in the tray below the curtain!?!
― quincie, Monday, 25 June 2012 01:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
It's a crocheted pot scrubber :) A friend makes them. This house has the original plumbing fixtures from when it was built in 1940 - that's a little soap tray above the back of the faucet.
― Jaq, Monday, 25 June 2012 01:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
At first glance, I thought it was a SCONE and thought "oh how appropriate with the curtains" :)
― quincie, Monday, 25 June 2012 01:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
They look excellent, Jaq!
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Monday, 25 June 2012 02:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah that's really impressive
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Monday, 25 June 2012 02:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
Aw thanks - I'm really pleased with it and really enjoyed working with that rayon thread, which was unexpected. Mr. Jaq is worried I'll go lace-mad and embellish everything in the house.
― Jaq, Monday, 25 June 2012 02:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
I can do jacquard flat. Dead easy to be honest. I also did the paper dolls FINALLY.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 25 June 2012 08:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Beautiful! Your seams are gorgeous!
― quincie, Monday, 25 June 2012 11:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
since i temporarily gave up on sweaters i am knitting all the cowls on the quince and co site because i love to knit cowls! then i will do all the scarves and all the hats. i'm a lamewad. i just love winter accessories. i need to switch to continental though, i'm just so lazy.
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Monday, 25 June 2012 11:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
Nath, I love that sweater.
Something makes me think I originally learned to knit English, this memory of holding a straight needle between my arm and my side. But when I restarted knitting, probably 20 years later, I automatically went to continental for some reason. I did a lot of crocheting in between, so maybe that did it - hook in right hand and yarn in left? idk. All the ladies in my knitting group who I taught all knit English - why?
― Jaq, Monday, 25 June 2012 13:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
Tomorrow I am doing a course on jacquard knitting. TWELVE FREAKING COLOURS.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
If anyone can tackle it, it's you!
― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 00:32 (10 months ago) Permalink