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I did not know they made size 0 needles. That's intense.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm knitting socks on some now.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 15 March 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh Sam, the animal hats don't even break even. I didn't have the heart to charge the cute Vietnamese boy or the Mexican mom anything close to what it cost, so they mostly just covered my expenses on yarn (and perhaps the time it took to put the ears on the hats). I can do a hat without thinking, so I just chalked it up to good will.

good luck on etsy, molly! have any of you seen The Sampler? I got a three month subscription for the holidays and it's been interesting. might be a good way to promote an etsy shop (since that's what half the contributors seem to be doing). I've gotten little crocheted flowers and felted leaf pins and stuff.

― patita, Thursday, 15 March 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always tempted to subscribe the the Sampler.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 15 March 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have size 0 needles. I'm fairly certain I will never use'em. :-D

My Debbie Bliss order has not been sent. BOOOO!

Last night I started the Jaywalker socks with some of the self-striping (I think? funky-colored anyway) yarn that Nath sent me.

Ooh! That Opal (?) yarn? YAY! :-)

― nathalie, Friday, 16 March 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

I R KNITTING NERD

and this is why we love you. :)

yes I started the jaywalker with that, on size 1 needles! those are bad enough. I don't think I could do 0, esp a whole sweater.

R/Z, what's do you think is a good beginning sock pattern?

I got a free copy of Craft magazine at SXSWi. It seems pretty good. more like a mini-book. It had a how to for modifying circs. The cover cost is $15 though!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

a CRAFTbmagazine subscription is a lot cheaper than picking them up individually.

― patita, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Craft magazine is the BEST. My friend has a subscription, and I just go over to her house and read her copies. I really ought to subscrible.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 16 March 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is this magazine on Internet? Searching for 'craft magazine' you see, might lead me down FALSE FRIENDS.

The jumper on the cover of the new Simply Knitting is pretty bad - "we've had the 70s revival, now time for the 80s revival" - I THINK NOT MY FRENZ.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Craft Mag

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

yes I started the jaywalker with that, on size 1 needles! those are bad enough. I don't think I could do 0, esp a whole sweater.

Ah shit, now I realize you use a different system. I actually knitted Ophelia's first dress in that yarn with size 1 needles. It went fairly fast but it turned out... interesting. (See first K thread. heh)

― nathalie, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I learnt from a knitting shop I visited a while ago that UK producers just don't make 2.25mm needles - so size one is actually fairly hard to find over here! I have realised my socks have been made with 4 2mm needles and one 2.5mm needle! Oh well they don't appear to be suffering for it.. 2.25 is in the middle of old US sizes 13 and 14. Oh why can't everyone just use the metric sizes! They make sense! Still, it's better than the non-metric terminologies for crochet hooks - J/14! K/alamazoo! Z/32!

Do any of you guys do all that "secret pals" stuff I read about on the power knitter blogs?

perhaps... WE should do one! Although postage costs could get extortionate but WHO CARES? Do we care?

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Postage cost was a bit high but, damn it, I figured Sam deserved a whole bunch of yarn. Now I don't think I have enough yarn to spare. :-( But it could be fun if I could also include those *odd* bits (like one skein of a fluffy Japanese yarn). Waddayasay?

― nathalie, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I was very concerned about your postage costs!

perhaps we could do a secret pal and count Nath's gift as the first installment (e.g. she gets a package from someone else, I send one to someone else, etc.)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

we should totally have an ilx secret pal!

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind "organising" it if there's enough interest, I just love that RAND function in excel! We would pretty much just follow the same regular 'secret pals' rules I spose.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

go for it! (did what I propose re: me and Nath make sense?)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

You mean basically Nath doesn't have to send anything?

That sorta takes the fun out of it a bit though dunnit?

OK!

Holla if you want to be in on ILx Secret Pal #1 using the phrase "Me please, Doktor Brane and email me your names and POSTAL ADDRESSES - starrysdarkmaterials at gmail dot com please!

note I will be asking you to fill in QUESTIONNAIRES.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be suggesting a £30ish/$60 USD total spend over oh say six months excluding post & packing....

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

well, I wouldn't get anything and Nath wouldn't have to send anything. But it would be passing on the karma (she would get something and I would be generous to someone else!)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Could do if you both want, but Nath might want to join in so let's see wot she sez first :)

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Will we be sending completed projects or the gift of fun yarn?

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 16 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I was thinking whatever, just nice stuff you think the other person might like, based on their answers to the questionnaire - you could send completed things if you wanted! Yarn if you wanted! Chocolate if you wanted! Er unless US post is wacky with regards to food and liquids being sent right now (?? is it?? i have no idea)!

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I don't either! although I don't think the xray every package or anything.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

My mom sends me chocolates from half way across the country, so at least inter-continental food packages should be okay!

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm well I think it would probably be OK, more at risk of being nicked by A.N Naughty P0stie but see:

This applies to any manufactured food or drink for either humans or animals but does not apply to homemade or manufactured foods being sent as a personal gift to individual people in the USA but you should clearly indicate this on the Customs form that this the case. If you don’t do this your parcels or packets containing food or drink may be returned to you or even destroyed.

So you totally can't send anything unless you jump through hoops UNLESS it's a personal gift and clearly indicated, so er yeah that's clear... should be OK, this is no doubt only of interest to ME though :)

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Link

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

or even destroyed.

That's a little harsh isn't it?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Government guidelines are not a laughing matter, ma'am. Now if you'll please step into this holding cell...

Oooh this is EXCITING! More emails please...

― Sarah, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

The customs form usually has a spot to write GIFT!!!!!! when you also put the declared value.

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm cuckoo for etsy. I just bought this.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 16 March 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

well, I wouldn't get anything and Nath wouldn't have to send anything.

I know, I'm a bit cuckoo for saying this - my husband would def say so - but I want to be a proper participant!

― nathalie, Saturday, 17 March 2007 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, we should figure out what size needles aren't common in each participants countries (like 3mm/ us 2.5 needle)(altho maybe I'm the only one who knits on such sizes??).

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 17 March 2007 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

actually, I have a couple of ideas for questionnaire questions, I'll email you them, Sarah.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 17 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

As I have European and Japanese (American?) size needles, I can handle ANYTHING. Well, my needles can, but my hands NOT. :-)

― nathalie, Saturday, 17 March 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, please do! I didn't mean to give the impression that it was hard to find certain needle sizes here by the way, I'm sure I've seen quite a few places online offering them as standard - it's just that that size wasn't generally made here so most UK companies continue not to make them. That's the only one affected I think.

I nearly took my knitting to Wembley today but decided not to take the piss...

I've turned the sock heel! Hooray!

― Sarah, Saturday, 17 March 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

bump : come on ILx Secret Pal fans - only three people have signed up so far and er, well I'm sure there's at least four of you who'd like to play!

I'm now a couple of inches up the leg of the nu-rave socks - Jonathan Creek is SO conducive to knitting you would not believe! LA LA LARR LARR doo doo odoo da da dooo dooooo DAA (that is "danse macabre" if you could not tell). I am enjoying knitting so MUCH at the moment!

next up I would like to make an Jonathan Creek and also a JUMPER. I feel like trying something in the round because I am no good at matching up front/back sizes accurately, but I can only think of knitty's 'tempting' variations, and the leftovers tank top right off the top of my head. Frankly I am sure a tank top would be pretty easy to do in the round, you'd just knit the front and back from the armpits up flat, I imagine... but then what if yr guage knitting flat is totally different to yr knitting in the round and error, error? Who cares, I suppose.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, did you get my mail? (or did I forget to send it. . .)

I made a bunch of embrodired dish clothes a few years ago for an ILx 40things trade. didn't have a digital camera then so took no pics. :( I should try to remember who got them and ask them to send my a picture.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I finished baby blanket. Is it just me, but I'm not up for knitting much. :-( I think it's hormones and upcoming spring. *sigh* But I do WANT to. Really. :-) I watched most of the 24 seasons (2 till 5 or is it four?) and now I'm reading to KNIT PROPER ITEMS. :-D

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Got it! I sort of want to keep people in it a secret but I suppose we are so few that there might not be much point - is there anyone reading who doesn't quite know what the Secret Pal thing is about and would like a bit more info?

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I knit 2 mice from Stitch n'Bitch Nation (the 2nd one), for the cats, and included tiny bags of catnip (hooray for the sewing machine!). They turned out really well, although I thought the pattern was a little bit whack for the first few rows. Anyway, within 2 minutes of giving Biff one of the stuffed mice, he started pulling at its eyes and tried to kill it, essentially. A hit with teh cats!

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've been commissioned to make some kufis for my brother's friends. they are african type hats that looke kind of like this

It seems the pattern would be a pretty simple skull cap but I'm wondering if it would be better crocheted than knitted. my crochet skills are not as hot as knit and I'm also not sure how I might do a chart in crochet.

hmm. . .education in order.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 19 March 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

this secret pal thing sounds grand!

I had a knitting dream! It was making a fancy border on a sweater, and I was actually reading a chart in my dream. I have a hard time reading charts when I'm awake, so this was quite a nice thing :)

― patita, Monday, 19 March 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, I have discovered Japanese craft books.

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 19 March 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which ones do you mean, Rosemary? I might get some more when I go to Japan (yet again!) in June. I discovered that you have to read the charts differently, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Yesterday it was knitting course time again! We learned to make a cable which *splits* in the middle and wraps around the collar. Uhuh. How am I ever going to learn and REMEMBER all this? Mucho hard. Well, the cable thingie wasn't *that* bad, although I did make a minor mistake here and there. But I discovered that from next year the cost of the course almost DOUBLES: it'll cost 150 euros. WTF. I'm enrolling of course, but srsly what the fuck! For the retired people, who enroll mostly for socializing, this will be a difficult matter. Also, now we have *modules*: we can take basic knitting, creative knitting, relief knitting, colour knitting, accessory knitting and... can't remember. We all decided that we would do relief knitting so monday evening will be us lot doing knitting part II. Hurrah!

We also talked and looked at *art knitting* (which is basically lace knitting, but as lace is a specific thing in Belgium - unrelated to knitting - we don't call it lace knitting). The teacher said it was EXTREMELY difficult. Only 2 out of 14 people got it right in the other class! I'm still intrigued by it, though I doubt I'll be doing the round thing with DPNs YUCK!) or the square border one. NO WAY. Looked very nice though!

I also had a hot chocolate. Yum! :-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I bought an amigarumi pattern book, because it was so cute! And some how to sew stuffed creatures book, and one how to make glove and sock animals.

I've read that once you can figure out what each symbol means in the crochet chart, you really don't need to be able to read Japanese.

Although I know a bookstore owner who knows Japanese, so maybe I'll show him my new books and see if he understands it.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's not the symbols, it's more the way the chart is read. They for example include the cast on row and read from right to left (at the start) and so on...

― nathalie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

nath, your courses astound me.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh, I know what you mean. The point is that we don't really need to know this *now*, but see this as a longterm project. The teacher said that in a couple of years we'll suddenly *get* it. I know what she means: there's a certain logic to it, something that will hard for me to grasp because I have zero *insight* in these things. It's very highpaced, but considering what I learned so far, I'm certainly trying to hang in there. I really don't want to give up this course even though I not only want to enroll in a lacemaking course but also will have to deal with two kids. I have to realize that the course really pushes me (and the others). I don't think I'd even contemplate knitting a sweater if I hadn't taken this course. I'd probably still be knitting scarves or something. :-)

― nathalie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Here is the latest picture of my sock - I'm afraid it isn't a very good picture though. How is good knitting pictures made?!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

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nah i'm knitting them flat because magic loop was making the stitches stretch out and i didn't want to use dpns. it's coming out ok though. i have more confidence in my ability to knit flat stockinette now.

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Monday, 11 February 2013 13:39 (thirteen years ago)

i finished the fronts and the back! i'm doing good on this, following all the instructions for once

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Monday, 11 February 2013 13:40 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i can't seem to start the second sleeve
this http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/02/20/fashion/streetstyleneonbeanies.html?ref=fashion
made me order a skein of "edison bulb" colored madelinetosh to make a hat

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:38 (thirteen years ago)

I made a scarf with Edison Bulb and Neon Rose.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 03:40 (thirteen years ago)

i'm almost done with this fucking second sleeve! i need a pattern for my neon hat. i'm too picky.

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:52 (thirteen years ago)

I am working on my first (crochet) quilt. 144 granny squares. My stitches are uneven. Will attaching them together even them out, or am I doomed to topographical weirdness?

― POSTOBON Naranja (soda), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:30 (thirteen years ago)

Think of it as handcrafted charm.

― Jaq, Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:32 (thirteen years ago)

What is the fiber? If it is animal, maybe blocking will help.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 7 March 2013 02:32 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

i'm finally sewing this sweater just in time for summer. i hate seaming. though the first long seam is just slightly uneven (where i forget where i was picking up the bars) and not enough to undo. i'm going to undo the beginning where the ribbing is but i'll wait and do it at the end. so tiring. i wish i could be good at this stuff.

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 14 April 2013 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

also i have a few projects i'm thinking of just unraveling. i've moved on from when i wanted to do them, now i want to do something else. argh!

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 14 April 2013 20:46 (thirteen years ago)

i have tried for probably 100 hours to do fancy sewn and tubular bind-offs for ribbing. they are confusing and then when i do them they are not nearly as invisible as promised. also close to impossible to undo. i just did a decrease bind-off for 2x2 rib from some youtube i found and it's perfect. very stretchy, basically mirrors long-tail cast on. it makes a little bit of a bar across the top but it's thin. a lot more "invisible" than tubular.

― veryupsetmom (harbl), Sunday, 21 April 2013 20:31 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

I recently learned to knit, I only know the two basic stitches. I finished my first project a week and a half ago (a scarf) and am making another with the leftover yarn. Already there's a huge improvement in my knitting; comparing the two projects my first one is full of mistakes. I want to make this scarf and another (for my mother) then I'm going to learn to use my circular needles.

― gyac, Thursday, 13 June 2013 19:19 (thirteen years ago)

You can do a lot with just a knit and purl stitch! Hooray for scarves, they are one of my favorite things to make. So satisfying.

― Jaq, Friday, 14 June 2013 03:11 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

I'm knitting a scarf, but it's a complicated lace pattern and I'm using kidsilk haze, what a poxy fule. It looks like a big scribble.

― one over two first letter human (Zora), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 22:11 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

i started bristol ivy's thorn pattern in january and i'm still working on it.

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 17 August 2014 19:49 (eleven years ago)

That looks beautiful! Does it use short rows?

I have been making the log cabin blanket from mason dixon first book & so far 4 square feet...over 15 skeins of yarn into it so far.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:09 (eleven years ago)

Sorry...over 16 sq ft! 4 ft x 4 ft. Fuckin' math.

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, 17 August 2014 20:10 (eleven years ago)

not short rows, just regular increases. i'm working on row 11 of the looooooooong picked up and knitted border. super super long.

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 17 August 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

i want to knit most of the brooklyn tweed patterns but they come out at a rate of like 100 per year

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 17 August 2014 22:10 (eleven years ago)

I started a Log Cabin Blanket a few years a go and uh, never finished.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:04 (eleven years ago)

hurgh i just started the bindoff after knitting 2 rows this morning, 650 stitches each. i can't even type good. what a slog.

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 24 August 2014 16:20 (eleven years ago)

I like the crochet bindoff for big fuckoff bindoffs like that, it just feels like fewer steps:
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2006/07/04/i_cant_stand_to_watch.html

― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:39 (eleven years ago)

is it the same as the chain bind off, just not knitting as you do it? i'm using the decrease bind-off, which is neater than sewn (which i always make mistakes at and lose track of, then impossible to undo) and as fast as chain but much stretchier. also appears less bulky than the chain bind-off. i think i have about 200 stitches left but i need to just stop for the day. i'll probably not stop though. i can't!

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:49 (eleven years ago)

yeah, i did it

― flatizza (harbl), Sunday, 24 August 2014 23:18 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

my cat is obsessed with the cables on circular needles. i have to hide them while i work on something because she will chew them to hell. she never ever scratches me on purpose but today i think she did because she was laying on the bed and pretended to be spooked by something then ran over my arm causing a deep scratch so i had to get up and wash it out and when i came back she was chewing on a cable. it was planned. asshole.

― #amazing #babies #touching (harbl), Monday, 2 November 2015 22:18 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

I got a sock loom for Christmas.

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 December 2015 04:48 (ten years ago)

Also, this fall my yarn shop friend moved ... to be the new editor of Interweave Knits!!!

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 December 2015 04:50 (ten years ago)

finally gonna bookmark the knitting thread, maybe will ramble a bit at some point. I finished my first sweater a couple months ago!

― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Thursday, 31 December 2015 06:10 (ten years ago)

Cool!

― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 31 December 2015 13:58 (ten years ago)

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