K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

I meant frog and forget of course.

Horses? Watchoo chatting about?

This one: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall07/PATTpecanpie.html

I am a bit cross at the moment, one of my knitpro interchangeable needles snapped - grrr :( Am inclined to think wooden needles can sod off - the metal knitpro novas are superb so far.

Currently working on my second mitten w/ bees - the first one was a bit too improvised - the wrist is too large and the body slightly too tight, but I reckon I've got it better with the second. I'm going to try and swiss darn the colourwork as the weather means that I need to have the mittens wearable sooner rather than later! Can't work on them tonight at movie night but will attempt to be in a position to finish them off in the pub tomorrow.

hello guys, this is an amateur with a question:

how do i decrease w/out a lean? like just into a point that goes down the center, like a V. is this a "double decrease"? if anyone can explain simply or link to explanation i would appreciate it. i'm knitting a giant slice of pizza and its time to "get to the point."

I think you'd do a SSK (left leaning decrease) then a K2Tog (right leaning decrease), then pull the end through the two remaining stitches to finish.

I think a double decrease of slip 2, knit 1, than pass slipped stitches over the knit stitch, makes no slant.

I have found another turban pattern.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/13095-popup.html

A girlie on ravelry has done a super 2 colour version.

I dunno about 2-ply on 3mm needles though. I have no 2-ply (unless er I hijack some of the laceweight Wollmeise? it's, well, possible...). I'd like to use up some DK stash though.

thanks jaq and zo!

yall i have vastly improved at knitting in the past few weeks

while i was supposed to be studying for finals i procrastinated by learning new knitting skills. before this month, i could cast on, knit, purl, and bind off. that's it. now i'm increasing, decreasing, cabling, fair isle, the whole nine yards. it's exciting.

I am on the last 5" stretch of a Christmas sock I have to mail out by the weekend, and I have a guest in town the next three nights. It's driving me loco!

I'm doing xmas knitting, too. It's stressful but kind of a positive stress that I like. I'm knitting cable scarves for all the non-sister women in my/my boyfriend's family and a few other little things (toys for all my neighbor's pets, for example).

any good cat/dog toy ideas? i'm running out. i'm making a little egg roll, a fish, a mouse, a sushi roll...

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5249/5242076285_cca0fefbf6_m.jpg

Moi. Knitting. Lol.

Isn't Slip 2 K P O a no slanting decrease? Could be wrong though.

That Pecan Pie hat was designed by the fantastic Nancy Merchant! She's a lovely American living in the Netherlands. Great lady. Yes, I love her. lol

Thought my friend how to cast on the Terra yesterday during class. lol. I had already given mine to her, but she wants to knit one for her mom.

The main problem I have: counting the sts in my swatch. When I accomplish that, I'll label myself an experienced knitter. :-)

i did all the increase rows on my lightweight pullover but i broke my knitpicks interchangeable circ! i think i only had one in the extra long length cable. that'll teach me to try stuff on without slipping on to waste yarn (but what a pain). so i'm taking another break from it.

ok i fixed it.
i got yarn to make my mom's xmas present and to make these two hats http://www.knittingschooldropout.com/patterns/skinner_hat/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/knittingschooldropout/5176143716/ i'm kind of out of control

Bought yarn to make a broken rib scarf for bf. Yarn was tricky because dude *won't wear wool* arrrgh. Managed to score nice blue cotton on second yarn store attempt.

I am too full of indie lurgy to knit. I am LOOKING at my knitting. I am adding every knitting pattern to my queue on ravelry but can I actually knit, noooooooo.

I want to start revontuli
(http://www.christinaslattery.com/blog/2008/05/22/presenting-the-revontuli-shawl/)

AND a turban! (I've just realised it's 2ply held double == yeah world of dk!)#

However... blergh :(

My mom-in-law sent this email to my husband and me:

i just wanted to ask is abbott pregnant? just a fleeting thought. (came with your remark that abbott has lots of time to knit). and i wanted to let you know that whatever you two choose to do with your lives (except being crooked politicians) we're behind you all the way. we love you both and are proud of you both, and respect all your choices as grownups.

I knit all the time around her for the past 2 yrs so I'm not sure why now she thinks this means I'm pregnant?

lol abbott!!

i finished the acorns hat over xmas/ny break. i don't even like to wear hats but they are the funnest thing to make and i just want to have a pile of them. madelinetosh vintage is my new favorite yarn, i made this one out of it.

im making a scarf right now, its made up of little individual knitted leaves of different kinds and shades.

Knitting roundup:

1. Ashworth scarf. STALLED. I ph34r the Wollmeise is not the sort of drapey fuzzy yarn that the scarf needs! But can't face ripping back without another proper project for it. SO, grey/white wollmeise, laceweight - any ideas?? I have just under a mile of it. not I am NOT KIDDING.

2. Revontuli shawl - enjoying it, possibly cz after hours of 2.75mm knitting, 5.5mm needle knitting speeds ahead. Very nice so far, and mistakes only add the the pleasure of finished item. My first shawl!

QUEUED TO MAKE:

1. Cityscape cardigan (as mentioned above!) - got pattern for wobs, and am after my pal to dye up some wool for me. We are thinking slate green body and perhaps a faded burnt yellow for the sky? (She has mooted blue for an underwater city effect, but I am not so sure, as the blue would have to be spot on...)

2. ELEPHANTS! ELEPHANTS! ELEPHANTS!
http://knittingbykaae.blogspot.com/2010/04/elephants-in-stripes-test-strikning-af.html

Here is another elephant. He is super:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/holofernes/edward-the-eggwarming-elephant

Oh god, I LOVE those elephants! I should try knitting something like that for my Mom's birthday - she loves and collects elephant stuff, and goes crazy over ANYTHING I make, even if it's, like, a garter stitch sample. Haw.

A question:
What fibers are best for knitting a rug, in particular a bathroom or kitchen rug? I guess I want it to be absorbent, but not too absorbent? Anyone ever made one of these btw?

The first Mason-Dixon book had a log cabin rug made of Peaches & Cream/Sugar & Cream kitchen cotton held triple!
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/absorba-the-great-bathmat

There is also the thing where ppl cut up old t-shirts to make yarn which has the whole like '70s rag rug vibe that I kinda dig but OTOH fuck cutting up t-shirts all day imo.

abbs this is great!! because i have so much of that yarn!

The kitchen cotton? Do you have it in cone form?

Size 15 needles!

oh wait, no, it's not kitchen anything. haw. just the original peaches and cream stuff, like in peaches and cream color and all. i came into a cache of old fashioned knitting stuff at a yard sale last year - tons of ooooold susan bates needles on the old, original 60s-looking cardstock, and tons of peaches and cream!

what IS kitchen cotton? is it reinforced or something? i should google.

i dont even know what i mean by "reinforced"

I just call Sugar & Cream/Peaches & Cream "kitchen cotton" – picked the term up from a friend – bcz it seems to be used mostly for dishcloths, potholders, kitcheny stuff, like not for wearing.

oic and otm

btw rox I found a mitten pattern for you

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BuBAvr7XdzQ/TScXhlFMmjI/AAAAAAAABcw/3vsXnVezn9M/s400/icanhas01.jpg

CUTE!!

check this out yall:

http://style-files.com/2006/12/09/christien-meindertmas-giant-knitwork/

whoa, what size needle are those??

I think Lion Brand had a line of yarn called Kitchen Cotton, which was similar to Peaches & Cream/Sugar N Creme & I think had a patten for a rug made out of it.

The One Skein book has a pattern for a crochet bath matt made out of Peaches & Creme doubled.

So basically, all the kitchen/bath rug patterns I have come across use some sort of cotton.

lol Pom Pom Rug

pom pom rugs just seem like a bad idea, esp having cats

Great haul at All the Fun of the Fair yesterday - they are about to close for refurb so everything is on sale.

Picked up 6x balls of black chunky (going to make the o w l s jumper - but already I know I'm going to mod the heck out of it - it's got to be top down and I don't like all the shaping at the back - black would hide a lot of sins but I it looks like it might be nicer done more evenly), some circ addi turbos 3.25mm (am sure they will come in useful), knitpro metal 6mm tips (for the owls jumper - annoyingly you rib on 6 and then go up to 6.5 for the body, who has 6.5mm circs, NOT ME chiz...), a small...

pom pom maker!!

Oh oh, and "insouciant socks" by Cat Bordhi. AWFUL title, but it was on sale. It actually looks really good and I've never made socks using that method before.

(I'd get "eat.sock.love" (ewwww) if it were a fiver I guess. But it wasn't. Cookie A is coming to visit a yarn shop round here at some point, but I'm not sure if I'll go as I've never made any of her patterns come to think. Oops).

Further to my plea upthread, thought I'd just update on current knitting situation for my wife: As part of her birthday swag I got her a 6-hr course, Brant's "Ultimate Knitting Bible" book and then visited fairly new local knit supplies shop for yarn etc. They were super helpful and I emerged with a tote bag, needles and Noro pattern book and yarn (expensive wool! as you all know). Tina had her first lesson this week - she was a bit apprehensive beforehand, but really enjoyed it and came back with an immaculately neat bit of sample work (I was very proud).

Thanks again to ILx Knitting Local 2378 for all the advice - really appreciated.

Heh glad she's enjoying it!

Is anyone else having problems with Ravelry running like a 3 legged dog? I have a bunch of messages to read and Rav won't open them, and it's full of red x missing graphics. And I'm on IE so it can't be a Firefox problem (doesn't work AT ALL with Firefox at home). It's a great resource but urgh goddd COME ON, it's Friday afternoon, have a heart :(

I am goingto Knit Nation. Yipee!

On my ipad so can not post pics. Maybe for the best. Lolol

Off to knit fiore di mare shawl and cobblestone sweatah.

Going to get this book.

http://images4.ravelry.com/uploads/knitaly/529608/cover_small.jpg

Oh no!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevienixed/5351621745/

Shit. Nevermind. :-)

Just saw something on Twitter that Rav has lost a server or something and are trying to get it fixed pronto.

I'm doing cables for the first time - totally screwed up initially, didn't realized bringing stitches to the front or the back actually mattered, but no way am I frogging and restarting so the scarf looks like snakes emerging out of utter chaos.

Do you use a cable?i have since I knit too tight.

I'm definitely using a cable needle - I watched over the shoulder of someone doing cables w/o one but then couldn't fathom it for myself when the work was in front of me. I've got a too-slippery aluminum bird's wing one - thinking about getting a set of wooden ones from KnitPicks along with some of their new Chroma yarn.

I <3 my wooden cable needles. They weigh very little. Trying to just used a pencil as a cable needle did not work the one time I tried it.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1337.snc4/162979_492832584395_789174395_5738896_7210234_n.jpg

i bought a set of cable needles a while back. i've never used anything else