K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

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That never occurred to me before, but now it's all I'll be able to see. The Yarn Harlot is Ned!

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Sweet Dale sweater, Ned!

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Not sure if I shared this here before, but I made this lil' monkey for my mom. When I went to visit her recently, she has it displayed leaning against this porcelain model of the Idaho Falls Mormon temple.

i died @ "sweet dale sweater ned"

nath, your knitting is always inspiring. v beautiful.

the norwegian stitching thing i was working on is too hard for me

Packed up all my yarn for moving - it's a lot more than I thought I had, 6 banker boxes full. I'm nearly finished with the 2-at-a-time toe-up socks I started in April, but haven't had a lot of time for knitting lately.

Thanks Rox. Really I think my knitting sucks. But I guess that's because I am demanding and pick way too complex projects. (unlike my friends who's stuck in stockinette land. NEVER strays from it.)

6 boxes? my stash is decreasing. YAY. i only buy yarn for specific projects. also, my mountain ash is keeping me busy. lol

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my next way too complex project. like fuck i am ever gonna wear it. just want to make.

Someone made their dog a pair of leg warmers:

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Someone made their dog a pair of leg warmers:

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Dude looks cool. Lol

Dudes; I have had it with lace knitting. Mountain Ash is a UFO (lol). And I started the Jared Flood Juneberry. Fun, yes, because I replaced bobbles (blergh) with beads.

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But I have decided to teach myself STRANDED KNITTING. Friend keeps saying it's easy. Doubt it. But what have I decided? To order myself an Alice Starmore Cats 'n' Mice blanket kit. HAHAHAHAHAHA I also got myself two of her books. One is 35 euros. Yikes. Anyway:

http://farouche.smugmug.com/photos/236884174-L.jpg

First I am gonna do a stranded hat. I "concocted" pattern myself. I'll show it when it's ready.

Oh yeah, I might be doing a course in Brussels. My mom (in Japan) introduced me to the teacher (via someone who resides in Japan and is a mutual friend.).

Oh yeah, blanket is done in the round and you have to do STEEEEEEEEKS cutting. ARGH! But better than doing stranded purling, I guess. LOLOL. I have decided to do the stranding combo stylee (so one yarn in left and other in right hand).

Anyone here done stranded knitting? Should I be not afraid or VERY afraid? I was taught in my course but didn't pay much attention cause I had zero interest.

Also, those Starmore sweaters are horrid. Prefer Yang's designs.

Yeah, Starmore sweaters can be pretty fug – that blanket is super cuets though. Steeks sound like a rush, I think! I have never done stranded knitting but the ladies in the second Mason-Dixon book made it sound like the next level of crazy, intense fun. I was thinking that would be the next thing I would tackle, actually. This hat (ravelry link) I thought looked like a good first project for me.

stranded knitting is totally my style of craft, but i have not yet tried it. want to. let me know how diff. it is

Abbott, that hat's great but has stranded knitting in the decreases too. I'd go for something which only had stranding in the straight parts. But that's just me. Lol. I mean, shit, I am doing a hat with 2,5 mm circs. Urgh. (I'm fine with 2,5 mm dpns and sock knitting but stranded?) Anyway I have a LOT of stranded patts faved.

I do love her designs but it is just not fucking wearable, now is it? I mean, shit, they look like god damn bags at times. Something you'd wear to a knit meeting to show off your skillzors.

Rox, you think? EVERYONE says it's dead easy. Me? I think it'll be hard because I want to tackle the combo style. If it doesn't seem to work, I'll hold my strands in one (right) hand. It'll be a lot easier (it seems) but will take longer. I already have this yarnholder. I can do continental knitting but somehow I can't work to slide the sts forward on my left needle while knitting. Tension seems to be even (but different from my standard style of knitting)

Anyway I have decided that I wanna explore all the different techniques (one day even entrelac). For years I did the stockinette thing but that shit's way too boring.

Anyway off to finish that border for the juneberry. Knitting on a border is fucking easy but bo-ph-ring. 32 reps of 12 row chart. URGH

Guys I just bought Tudor Roses for 125 dollars. lolololol

And btw my friend has been trying to convince me to knit Autumn Roses or Venzia (by Yang). I think that is so fucking out of my league. hahaha

i ordered some sock yarn and finally got a set of different sock-size dpns so i can start a pair of socks and not be confined to sizes 0, 1, or 3. it's the same colorway as in this picture http://knitspot.com/wp-content/uploads/dailies_2009/cookieSockCopenhagen11_11.jpg

omg that is just too pretty.

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harbl, I love that colorway. Socks are so much fun to make.

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Do YOU see cats? Mice?

Is that your blanket Nath? So awesome! (The answers are yes & yes)

Is that your blanket Nath? So awesome! (The answers are yes & yes)

Yep. I strongly urge you to do stranded knitting. Esp a hat. Very easy. Only rub thing about this blanket is the border. I am pretty sure I will sew on border (and backing).

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/CoffeeAndCream/31853148/Touch_Your_Toes..._medium.JPG

I found a pattern for kitty legwarmers.

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My icecream!

i am almost done with my first copenhagen sock. it looks a little barfy knitted up but i kind of like it. i worked on it continuously for a few days to get it done so fast though, i think the next one will take me like a month.

So you guys like the Knit Picks nickel-plated interchangeables? I'm thinking about buying a set. I'm also thinking about making one of these little dudes for a friend who's expecting.

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEff10/images/floBEAUTY.jpg

knitting toys is great fun––and it's cuteness therapy! I have been meaning to do this: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elefante but I have to wait until my cranky shoulder heals up before I can do anymore knitting.

I've got the KP interchangeables - love how flexible the cables are and how smooth the joins. I like needles a little grabby, so went with the wood points - they are awesomely sharp, great for lace knitting. I can imagine the nickel ones would be also, but even slicker.

i'm trying to do one of those greenhowe toys. the patterns are awesome but i fear seaming that shit will be... well, shitty. lol.
not too fond of that one, i prefer the elefante. the one julia mentions :-)

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OH NOES TWO ROWS OF CATS N MICE. lolol. Have to say that stranding is fucking BORING. and troublesome if you have a starmore project with a gazillion colour changes. lol. i am doing her iceland pattern which NOONE seems to have made. hah! can'ty find a pic ANYWHERE online. i am gonna order lopi yarn.

also doing a test knit: baby blanket. has to be ready in two weeks. ARGH. it was three weeks but i had to wait a week for yarn. grrrr. and now i realize that i won't have enough yarn probably. better order some quickly

btw record collecting is nerve racking. but what about yarn buying? FUCK ME. i was on the wollmeise site. EIGHT MINUTES after update and ALL THE SHIT WAS GONE!!!!!!!! WTF!!! i love wollmeise though. AWESOME colours.

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If I finish cats 'n' mice, I wanna give this one a try. Well, one day. Hmmmmmmmmmm

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To practice my stranding. It fits Ophelia (and me). lol. It looks weird huh? Well, it is. But on her head it looks kinda cool. Well, it will once I attach a pompom. I have yet to make a pompom (as an adult, did as a child).

That blanket is turning out so cool, Nath! I have made stuff out of lopi before...it kind of feels like it is made of human hair.

I don't get how Wollmeise is worth the $40 people are always selling it for, other than excess demand.

Wollmeise is SFB.

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/SFB

None of these make sense!

serious fucking business

Lol. I forgot to check wollmeise again
Abbott the colours are so pretty.

I am gonna make a rowan sweater. I am shit at sweaters... :-( but gotta learn huh...

Can any of you knitting types please explain me the difference between a Lopapeysa and a Fair Isle Jumper? I kinda need to know. Thanks.

Are you asking bcz of the Richard D James sweater? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but they're not too different. They both use stranded knitting techniques (alternating difft colors of yarn in the same row). The main difference is Lopapeysa is made from a type of Icelandic yarn called Lopi, and is traditional to Iceland. Fair Isle comes from the Shetland Islands & uses a difft type of wool (traditionally). Sometimes people use "fair isle" as just shorthand term for stranded knitting. I'm not expert, but I'm guessing RDJ's sweater, with music notes, is not some traditional Icelandic pattern.

Oh and apparently that's Chris Cunningham. That looks like it's made of some fat fucking yarn.

http://www.jsaintil.com/typo3temp/pics/8aa01a5d98.jpg

Looked Lopapeysa up b/c I'd never heard of it - the lopi yarn is apparently not spun and the guard hairs are left in the fleece, so it's not easy to work with by very lofty and warm. Looks like the Lopapeysa is generally a yoke design, while Fair Isle can be yoke but also all-over.

Yes, sorry, that's Chris Cunningham. I know him & RDJ look very alike, but he's the dark-haired one and RDJ is the ginger.

So do you reckon, based on the thickness of the yarn, whether that is a Lopapeysa or a Fair Isle or someone's girlfriend knitting an awesome custom design?

Hrrmmm, guard hairs - I am going to have to look up this lopi yarn, it sounds interesting.

Lopi is weird, it feels like it's made of human hair, kind of. Here's a (blurry) pic of my husband in a hat I made him that is made of Lopi:

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/Abbigail/19579176/yarn_shots_004_medium.JPG

I can't tell what his sweater might be made of bcz of pics' resolution. Could be anything? I hope he found it at a thrift store or something, because if someone custom made me a sweater with little T-rex arm sleeves like his has, I'd be sad. It does look home-made, though.

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Fair isle is a colour knitting technique. Stranding (because of the running strands on the wrong side). Can use dozens of colours but only two colours per row. The other is a sweater made in iceland. Has a specific yoke form both sides the same.
That one he is sweater is pretty easy to make.

Also lopi yarn is water deterrent (?)

That is a very cute hat, but I could be distracted by the cutesness of the young man modelling it. ;-)

Here is a higher res pic of the jumper:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masonicboomk8/4821451139/sizes/o/

(linked coz it came out of photoshop huge - but the original pic doesn't seem to have been very good quality so I'm not sure it helps.)

I assumed the sleeves were just pushed up, rather than it being actually T Rex-shaped, but now you mention it, it does sit pretty high on his hips so it probably wasn't made for him.

i made a hat from lopi, too. i like itchy yarns. it came out a little big for me so i gave it to my brother.

OK, going by Nath's post, it's not a Fair Isle, then, because close up reveals it's got 3 colours in each row - black, white and grey.

But it's sort of mottled in the yoke bit, like Mr. Abbot's hat. Hrmmm.

Yes fair isle is only two colours per row. Weird because it looks like fair isle!

Also lopi yarn is water deterrent (?)

All wool is water resistant.

I know but they do sth to make it non absorbant or sth. I forgot