ILX Knitting

If you like the yarn, it was dyed by my friend who runs:

http://www.curiousyarns.co.uk/

PLUG

That is about the cutest thing I have ever seen, starry.

yeah what size needles did you use?

Ooooh, that nectarine organic wool! Mmmmm.
This yarn is beautiful, too:
http://mountaincolors.com/

I have to think up something else to knit. There are only so many scarves one needs.

URRM needle size, er yeah there's a point. Um it was either 2mm or 2.5mm, I can't quite remember! Whatever size needles I knitted the sock on :)

So, is bamboo RLY better than aluminium for dpns? I got all my needles secondhand in a big bundle from eBay and charity shops and have happily knit a cardigan on metal needles (I say 'happily', it's crap) and have done the jumper on PLASTIC - one needle SNAPPED! Sheesh.

(The pattern for the jumper is in 'Last Minute Knitted Gifts' by the way. It errs a bit on the w4nky but... TINY JUMPERS! And I'd rather have nice contemporary stylish w4nk than yet more OMG STEETCH AND BEETCH blah whatever - arf I am OLD).

it depends on what type of yarn your using. bamboo has more friction than metal which you might or might not want.

and metal ones don't break when you step on them :(

I finished the first project I ever started last week -- a fifteen foot long scarf.

Fifteen feet! Isadora!

Yeah! I started it when I learned to knit last summer -- it was mainly for a band photo idea wherin we all wear the same scarf, but now it fits my whole knitting club (eight girls and a guy). Haw!

Ok guys, I need a new knitting project to start...any cool suggestions? I have a big skein of fluffy, thick dark grey stuff, and a little ball of tiny pink yarn.

Cat ears hat! (though probably not cool...)

i want one, gotta pattern?

From Stitch n Bitch - I can scan it in and email.

Here's the back to the sweater I'm making. Colors as striped not so ghastly as I thought they might be. (lizard included for scale)

http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/sweater_back.jpg

(oh, also making little things is a great way to work on patterns.)

do only women post on here? why can't a man knit too!

WHERE'S ME JUMPER:

http://static.flickr.com/49/106769308_829571afbd.jpg?v=0

hope that works... not that you can see the cable or anything. It's unblocked and just put together, not sewed up or owt.

take up the needles, Mr. Jones!

I can make out the cable! I never block. I probably should.

I also knitted the rug, underneath.

Hemhem.

cable is nice! yes, more male knitters.

Can somebody help me? I'm trying out this stitch from the 365 stitches calendar—obviously over my head. What do they mean by "(K1 P1) into YO from previous row?" I get Yarn Over, I think—loop the yarn over the needle from the back if you've just knit, from the front if you've just purled. But this other thing defeats me.

http://www.martingale-pub.com/Information/Corrections/Aug%203.jpg

I think they may mean just knit into the back of the stitch, but without taking it fully off the needle, then purl into it again before taking it off, like kfb. It's another way of increasing there seeing as yr decreasing either side. Unless I have it wrong. Ha.

This is my SEWN UP JUMPER pre-blocking...

http://static.flickr.com/43/111918169_17de1cec4a_m.jpg
jumper

http://static.flickr.com/46/111918143_b5e316371f_m.jpg
cable

http://static.flickr.com/51/111918146_848bcf2c0e_m.jpg
modelled by bear

Thank you Lucretia! I will try that.
That's a beautiful cable!

KnitPicks - Has anyone ever bought/used their yarn before?

i just finished a pillow case, two scarfs and am starting a blanket and purse. i enjoy using thick yarn on smallish needles to get a woven texture. i may even knit a small rug in this manner, a mat for yoga etc. need to knit wedding presents for friends who have not received my gifts yet for their wedding....... love knitting. my mom started knitting when she was 9. she taught me. she even knits at the beach.

knee socks! i gotta make knee socks.

so make 'em! Have you done socks before? That's the next thing I have to learn.

I'm almost done with the cardigan I've been making. I need to finish it by Saturday so I can give it to my mom for her b-day.

I've also done another felted bag since I last posted here. On my personal to do list is to get all my FPs and UFOs up on flicker.

knitty knitty knitty

I've never done em. I've never worked from a pattern, either, really. I kinda just go with my guts and end up with a project that looks like guts, too.

yeah, I want to put up more of my projects on Flickr.

I have about three unfinsihed socks going.

Roxy, I made the striped knee socks in the first Stitch N Bitch. I couldn't find the yarn they used, or the elastic thread, so I used Dale Baby Ull and plain white elastic thread, and they turned out good.

I am making a baby blanket for my assistnat manager, and oh it's taking so long, and the baby is due in tow months. I made a cotton bib that was in the new book One Skein, and it was so quick and cute!

I don't know if I could knit a blanket, even a baby one! Too long. Crochet is much better for this.

The pattern I've used for this cardigan is pretty crappy but otherwise I've found patterns pretty easy.

I hope the more experienced I become I will be able to start writing my own.

I knitted a PANTA over the weekend from a ball of Noro Silk Garden I had hanging around, it is SUPER!

http://static.flickr.com/56/138967814_22b340e4a3.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/44/138967786_2bfd0264dd.jpg?v=0

Pattern is peasy.

Me WEARING fully blocked jumper!

http://static.flickr.com/45/131855436_0ec53acfce.jpg

Knitted garter stitch headband (I'd insult yr intelligence by giving you a pattern!)

http://static.flickr.com/48/131245187_072f95c17f.jpg

Hat made using Rowan's WOOL COTTON, it's LOVELY. Made up the pattern cos... well, couldn't be arsed to find one! It's lovely and comfy but I would have preferred to go down a needle size or two I think.

http://static.flickr.com/47/131245179_fbaf696a59.jpg

sweater looks great!

I should bust out some headbands.

Meanwhile, I have finally cast on for something use up the linen drape - I am going to make a cardigan designed by Debbie Bliss which was in a Simply Knitting a while back, the pattern is hilariously called "Shades of the Riviera", and done in a lovely apple green with lilac border contrasts. However, I will be doing mine in BRIGHT BLUE, I'm not sure what I'll contrast it with yet! I will bring in my swatches to a yarn shop and hold them next to some other colour yarns when the time comes. I have even ordered a posh yah boo sux pair of bamboo needles as a TREAT (I am currently using two odd metal needles) so pooh ur me.

Soon to be started are some BOOTEES AWWWW and I want to make the fair isle cardigan from the Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino 1 book.

Meanwhile, I have finally cast on for something use up the linen drape - I am going to make a cardigan designed by Debbie Bliss which was in a Simply Knitting a while back, the pattern is hilariously called "Shades of the Riviera", and done in a lovely apple green with lilac border contrasts. However, I will be doing mine in BRIGHT BLUE, I'm not sure what I'll contrast it with yet! I will bring in my swatches to a yarn shop and hold them next to some other colour yarns when the time comes. I have even ordered a posh yah boo sux pair of bamboo needles as a TREAT (I am currently using two odd metal needles) so pooh ur me.

Soon to be started are some BOOTEES AWWWW and I want to make the fair isle cardigan from the Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino 1 book.

xpost - thanks! Make some headbands, they're grebt - this headband has now been donated to a better home. Here is the pattern. Cast on 13. Knit to the size of YORE HEAD. Cast off! Sew ends together. Bish bash bosh. The yarn is some specially dyed stripey sock yarn a friend made for me at http://www.curiousyarns.co.uk

hey, could you gmail me the pattern for that panta by any chance?

Sure thing! Let me know if you get it OK!

I am knitting a swatch of bamboo yarn. It's soft! I think I want to make a tank top, and I might make up my own pattern with a boat neck.

Bamboo yarn? Sounds like your tank top would give you splinters!

I have hardly any time for it right now, but I've been fooling around with the Himalayan Yarn recycled silk yarn. I wanted to knit a shell, but the size 10 needles I started on first gave me too dense a knit, like a kevlar bulletproof vest, and the 13's made it too loose, so a nipple was gonna poke out the holes if I didn't wear a bra. Not good. Tonight I'm going to try 11's.

bamboo fiber is fantastic! you can get clothes and sheets and stuff made from it. much more eco-friendly than cotton.

and it's super softer than cotton, at least the the one i'm using

This Saturday, June 10 = World-wide Knit In Public Day. I'm going to finish that sweater for Mr. Jaq from 2 years ago that only has 4 rows left...

only four rows! is there still the assembling?

I still have to assemble my cardigan. lazy.

almost finished the Namaste bag from Knitty. fun bus knitting.

Yes, the assembling and the blocking too. I'm ashamed every time I open the cabinet where all my partially finished and not-even-started projects are stored.

I took a quilt-in-progress to the dump a few years ago. I wasn't ever going to finish it—I'd bitten off way more than I could chew, and it was depressing me every time I saw it. NO REGRETS!!!!
I settled on 10 1/2 needles for the Himalayan yarn, and am attempting a cardigan rather than a shell. No matter the needle-size, the yarn is just too bulky for the soft drape I want in a shell. I'm about eight inches up the back. I can't wait to choose the buttons!

I would just like to say I LOVE SUGAR-N-CREAM YARN. I want every color.

I bought some Anny Blatt and Bouton D'Or yarn pattern books for 1/2 price. SO cute! Although way to not give yarn info in the booklets or online, Frenchies.

working on my first project now, a scarf for the mr. I could use some more headbands, though, so I might try a few of those! Learning how to cast off and bind tomorrow night.

Next project is a hat, to learn shaping and whatnot. It's going to hit 100F here today, so it seems a bit silly!

where do you live patita? I also think hats are silly here (austin) so haven't made any.

I learned to knit by doing a scarf in the round and then crocheting the ends together (for a double-thick scarf). That makes more sense in Minnesota than it would in Texas, that is for sure.

Current project: finishing a scarf with some fancy Italian fiber for my mother for Mother's Day (yes, I'm a bit behind...).

I also crochet and cross-stitch some but I am an idiot about sewing.

From upthread:
I'm ashamed every time I open the cabinet where all my partially finished and not-even-started projects are stored.

I am so with you but I think it's inevitable...

I would rather have a partially-finished life than none at all!