K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

I am scared of fancy st soxors. I know it's not that hard, but they still scare me.

oh hai ilx knitting--vote for me in this contest plz? i want to win snazzy french yarn! i'm, non-shockingly, JuliaA. number 17. voting ends dec 20th at midnight.

http://melusinetricote.canalblog.com/archives/2009/12/14/16139893.html

(i'm a bit embarrassed at how little thought went into my entry, but it was last-minute. whatev.)

voted!

me, too!

thanks! i would so love to win a bunch of french yarn. i have become a ridiculous yarn addict.

i got a little teapot as a gift today! i have tea cozy knitting to do, hurrah! the last one i did was improv colorwork. (omg). that was before i knew that colorwork was scary. i might try that again.

Voted! Also, I love your stitch markers and just bought a pile of them :)

Voted!!! :-)

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made during three eps of Southland with some extra time. So roughly four hrs or even less. lol
my dad requested this.

I finished my first sock today! It is insane how much more foot-shaped it is, just laying around, than a store-bought sock is.

Tip: wash it first before wearing, wash it inside out, of course you should block it.

I do none of these things of course.

Oh yeah, I'm knitting tube socks for my mom.

I am also doing that Vine & Leaf beret for my mom (if she wants it). You can see it in Vogue knitting the patt not my UFO lol).

Bought a shitload of books (mainly sock related ones), got some 12 inch cics (for hats) and also ordered 8 inch ones for sock ,knitting.

got a shitload of yarn. There goes my resolution to stop buying. lolololol

am i the only one who's not that knitty mad?

I like knitty bcz the patterns are always well-edited & clear + of course free. A lot of free patterns can be pretty shit. I just made a monkey & it turned out rly cute but I was kind of flipping out at the end bcz it had zero details abt finishing, just 'attach everything to everything else, look at the picture if you're confused.'

I'm not rly crazy abt any patterns from the newest issue, tho. Does anyone actually wear shawls? I can't not associate them with the extremely elderly, or maybe hip lady reverends.

Shawls are just ponchos that haven't been seamed!

I have to finish one worsted weight sock, and a fingerless mitt (made from yak and bison!) and my Christmas presents will be DONE.

I never block socks.

Me either. I've been thinking of shawls as 1/2 round tablecloths and an excuse for a giant lace knitting project :)

How is the yak and bison to work with? I made socks with some NZ possum fur yarn that was so soft, but a bit splitty. I'm trying to finish off a double-layer hat by the 23rd - just casting off layer 1 this morning - and then I'll be done with present knitting. I really want to learn how to double-knit; maybe next year.

I decided no knitting gifts this year bcz I have to take the GRE Monday. Can't study & knit at the same time.

Tomorrow!!?? OMG, good luck on it!!!

Ha thanks! I got my panic attack over with yesterday.

how did it go?

Jaq, the yak/bison (and milk and merino!!) was fine to work with. It was a light weight, so sometimes I felt if I was too tight, it might break (similar to 2 ply cashmere). I stayed up waaaaay too late Christmas Eve finishing stuff.

Oooh, my coworker is having a baby this summer, so I am going to knit her stuff. Everyone at work knows except our boss, who is being told tomorrow. Hoo boy.

thick and quick saved xmas iirc

still working on xmas knitting, i don't believe in this arbitrary 12/25 deadline though it's ok

Hi! I got some knitting gear for Christmas from my in-laws. I thought I'd be able to pick it up quickly because I got a book and I can crochet and because JuliaA has showed me how to knit once, but I couldn't even figure out this casting on business. Anyway, I decided to take a class in late January so hopefully that will do the trick.

i should have done that. it took me 5-6 years of my friend showing me stuff to learn it for real. i can't learn anything from videos or diagrams! i learned long-tail cast on by accident. a couple days ago i was trying to finish a sweater i've been working on for a few months by doing tubular bind-off and i don't get it. everyone loves techknitting blog and i think the instructions are bad. i should probably quit knitting.

I want some vicuna. Lol

jenny--i did not show you how to knit! i just showed you the russian join, which is magical and wonderful imo. i can help you with the learnin if you like. rather predictably, i also have a lot of yarn and needles around.

a friend of mine posted on fb about how she's had a hard time learning to knit, but she wishes she could. i think i'm going to bully her into letting me teach her. my local knitting friend had the gall to move away, so i have to convert another friend.

Well, see? I know so little about knitting, I thought this "Russian join" was knitting. Or maybe I thought you said "Russian joint" and then caught a psychosomatic contact buzz.

here's a russian join.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c7567uOec

i hate weaving in ends. this is soooooo much better than felting ends together or having to weave them in.

Holy shit that russian join is great! Although I dunno I don't really mind weaving in ends.

I am almost finished knitting myself a hat! Started it on Saturday, pretty pleased with my progress. Of course I haven't yet gotten to the part that involves DPNs.

i made my sister the starcrossed cables beret for xmas. i just use magic loop for the whole thing but you have to have a longer cable for that. also making my mom a pair of mittens but i HATE picking up the thumb. could have been done by now.

I have a pair of fingerless mitts that I knit I dunno three years ago but have not finished due to inability to pick up stitches for the thumb.

I'm all registered for my knitting class, and it starts next Wednesday! I made a ravelry profile and joined the ILX group, too, so if anybody wants to be my friend, that is A-OK with me.

Jenny, that's awesome!

nath you may be interested to know I finally started on the owls sweater...just finished the body. First time I ever did short rows!

yeeeha!!! a, i love you even more now. well, hate too cause you are progressing much too rapidly for this slow chixor. ;-)

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crap fuzzy pic. discovered too late (from the chart) that i had to do ssks too not only k2togs. lololol. first time reading blind from a chart was not a wise thing to do. lolol
it's the vine 'n' leaf beret from vogue knitting. very easy actually.

doing THREE pairs of soxors. hah.

i have a bad case of startitis. also, ophelia is obsessed with my knitting. she desperately wants all my projects to be for her. hah

I wish ssks looked as slick as k2togs.

I finished my first sock & am putting off the second of the pair until I can wind the rest of the yarn (big thing of Opal) into a ball. My friend just got a swift & ball winder for xmas & I'm dying to play with it. I have keys to her house from when I took care of her fish but it wld be pretty weird to break into someone's house to use their ball winder while they're away.

but it wld be pretty weird to break into someone's house to use their ball winder while they're away.

I bet it's been done by somebody.

i am pretty much done with owls but i redid the neck, eliminating the second set of short rows and decreasing more stitches. it was bunchy in back and i didn't like the boatneck effect. i just have to bind off and sew up the armpits.

when you guys do ssk do you slip purlwise? i was doing it that way until a pattern said to do it knitwise. it looked neater to me but i could be imagining it. i didn't really compare the two.

er wait that was the first set of short rows

No, I don't. I slip.

But if you dislike SSK, Abbott, you can just do skpo (slip knit pass slipped stitch over knitted stitch). It can have a slicker result (than ssk). If you hate SSK, wait till you have to purl two through back loop. lolol

Shows you what an addict I am: Thom's been lamenting I knit all the time. On top of that I have two ballwinders. lol. One was in a trunk of my mom's antique lace stuff. Also some old cotton.

I have way too many books. Actually, no, I don't. But compared to other Ravelers I have way more. hah.

My husband counted & the topic taking up the biggest amount of bookshelf space is "knitting" with 22 books. (Not the most space in area, but in quantity.)

A bunch of my (crochet) books are either stitch dictionaries or hilarious vintage books (with some patterns that I use a lot, actually!), so I couldn't add them to my Ravelry shelf, alas.

I signed up for a private lesson with a finishing expert so that I can learn:

Seaming
Buttonholes
Picking up stitches

Just knit ANOTHER hat! Time to move on to something else.

Hey harbl you should totally come with me to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this year. Mr. Que went with me once but he is afraid of sheep and goats so.

I want to go to Maryland Sheep and Wool!!!

Mr. Que went with me once but he is afraid of sheep and goats so.

Not a good place to go with that mindset.

Buttonholes are a pain, because you really have to plan them out.

Goats are pretty creepy, tbh. Their pupils are all weird.

My husband counted & the topic taking up the biggest amount of bookshelf space is "knitting" with 22 books.

I'm "blaming" your mad progression on THIS.
Off to buy some more books. lol

Will 2010 be the year when I finally get the hang of gauge?

i got gauge in 2009. it was hard for me because i'm impatient, but i realized it's not so bad.
q we should def go to ms&w

I'm beginning to get it, but DAMN i don't wanna get why it's not the same when i start my project. lol my socks for ophelia are slightly larger eg but good since she had zeppelin sized feet