K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

If you can't wait until you get to the shop, you could send me a picture, and maybe I can tell what is going on.

Oh I love and am envious that you can just look at stuff and figure it out! It probably seems very obvious to you, but I have a hard time figuring out pattern intricacies (maths not my strong suit, obv).

I will try to find my camera so I can post!

I'm making a hat out of tosh dk. I have never used madelinetosh yarns before but the colors are so beautiful it's making me sigh like a dandy. Would love to make a whole cardigan out of it someday.

Guys after making four bsjs I can safely say: Overrated. Never really liked her style. Now even less

Guess I even go against the flow in knitting. Lol

what are bsjs?!

i love the madelinetosh yarns! i am almost done with a cardigan from it but i took a break beccause i came to an annoying part that involves picking up stitches, ew. i'm working on a quince and co pattern. it's the cardigan called anastasia. i think it's too short so i started the sleeves and will use whatever is leftover to make it longer. fast on 10.5 needles and no button band to pick up.

i also have a hat i made of madelinetosh vintage last year, it's so soft after being machine washed a few times and feels very durable

I want to see that madelinetosh yarn in person - the colors look amazing online! I'm in a hat knitting frenzy right now, trying to get 6 done by 11/17 and now have a rotten ache in my right elbow with 3 more to go. No more custom orders for awhile after this one - I've got one sleeve left to finish on the Snowden Becker Agatha cardigan and want to wear it NOW. (I'm making the sleeves full length and tapered in rather than belled - in midnight heather alpaca, dark dark blue heathered with black and purple and deep green.)

My friend M at my LYS loooooooooooooves madelinetosh so now they stock some. I bought some bright bright yellow (Edison Bulb) yesterday. I can't decide whether to pair it with blue or hot pink to make a scarf.

bsjs = Baby Surpise?

Surprise rather

what are bsjs?!

baby surprise jackets. i really think it's completely overrated.

In what way? It's a simple, well-engineered, quick to work up little jacket.

i finished the other sleeve and figured out why it came out so short. there's a mistake in the pattern that makes you skip a row. the chart was correct but the written pattern was not. i usually use the chart but the pattern didn't seem complicated enough to justify looking at it. so it's about 1 inch shorter from that and maybe another inch from my row gauge being off. i think i will just make one more leaf.

also whytf are cats so intrigued by knitting tools

my cat finds my metal cable needle lying around and brings it to me while i'm sleeping

Neither of mine cares about the yarn one bit, but Drac loves my circular needles and Morrie will chase the paper band from a skein around the house for months. They are strange.

she carries yarn around and makes a mess of it but she cares most about the cables on circular needles (she has destroyed more than one) and smaller-gauge straight needles because she likes to bat them and carry them around. she once took a sock needle and hid it and brought it back to me a few days later.

In what way? It's a simple, well-engineered, quick to work up little jacket.

Just looks lumpy (?), way too simple,... Something only a knitter who has heard of it will appreciate. It is quick. If it's baby size, you can do it in two evenings. But there's not much fun in doing it. Unless you are doing sth else at the same time.

I know I know, I shld shut up. :-)

It is finally homemade sock weather here in the Sonoran Desert!
~summon the power of Kitchener~

I'm knitting a Debbie Bliss classic cardigan for my friend's baby for Christmas. Good grief, rows and rows of stocking stitch is boring. But I think it's going to turn out quite nice, navy with grey trim. And I have some excellent buttons at the ready.

I'm knitting a Debbie Bliss classic cardigan for my friend's baby for Christmas. Good grief, rows and rows of stocking stitch is boring. But I think it's going to turn out quite nice, navy with grey trim. And I have some excellent buttons at the ready.

Be aware: her designs (for kids) are very boxy.

I'm not sure what that means.

i don't get how people finish so many projects, like one sweater a month or a pair of socks a month. i knit so slowly and i get so distracted! i have 2 sweaters that are in almost-done stages and i keep starting and not finishing accessories. i want to start another sweater now!

I think I knit pretty fast (continental stylee), but I also knit ALOT - like at least 3 hours a day. Because I'm an addict.

i am blocking this right now and i think it will come out too long! http://quinceandco.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_24&products_id=91
also i started this a long time ago and stopped because i dread picking up that many stitches along the outside http://100-rain.blogspot.com/2010/11/hooray-cardigan.html
then i looked at it today and realized i was doing a good job on it and i should stop being ridiculous. so i'll pick that up again soon.
also i might want to do this in feb/march http://threadpanda.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/knitalong-with-us/

there are just too many other things to do and other ways to waste time!

I'm doing a straightforward pair of toe-up socks for my sister and am winging a cabled pullover for Mr. Jaq right now. I'm going to try the E.Zimmerman seamless sweater technique for the pullover, but I've only finished about 8" of the body so far (bottom up). I love the textured cardi in that threadpanda KAL link! Also love both your other cardis! Did you use the same yarns as pictured? Gorgeous. I have a terrible time getting both stitch and row gauge - hope the blocking can sort out the length for you.

i don't always bother to swatch because my swatches come out so inaccurate even if i wash and block them. i need to make even bigger swatches maybe. i think the one blocking will fit fine because it's top-down too so i can rip back and just bind off earlier. i did use the same yarns but not the same colors. in the quince one i used off-white and the hooray i used "norway spruce," a blue-green.

i don't get how people finish so many projects, like one sweater a month or a pair of socks a month.

Lack of other hobbies. I knit about 3 hours per day, sometimes more.

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Finished this in less than a week (while doing other things too that week).

The Principles of Knitting! It's the size of a college biochem textbook. Holy fuck!

Only now have I (re)discovered proper seaming in of ends. lolol

I decided to knit 50 pairs of socks (in DK, worsted or sport weight yarn). This is again for Japan. I have plenty of time: no deadline. I already am on my third pair in less than a week. I am not only doing this for charity but also for selfish reasons: I want to better myself in sock knitting. (This is why I also did the jacquard hats: to get better at colour knitting in the round.)

I really want the Principles of Knitting.

Good luck with your socks, Nath!

Oh I love making socks. esp in dk yarn. goes so quick!

http://www.governmentfreevjj.com

Blergh. Worse are: knitted tampons. I mean, WTF is up with those?

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majorly into socks at the moment

I told my mom about that uterus knitting pattern when she got a hysterectomy, and she said, "Please never make me one."

Govt Free VJJ makes me IA, I am not entirely sure why.

And I have knit a uterus.

Anyway, am I mean if I do not want to teach people knitting at knitting meetups?

Haha no way does that make you mean. Teaching someone is an incredibly involved process and it makes total sense to me why people want to be paid for it.

I tried to teach someone to knit once and I vowed: never again.

If they already *know* how to knit I'm happy to help someone level up, e.g. helping someone learn to knit in the round. But even that takes effort and patience.

The lady at knitting tonight was sort of bad mouthing the LYS, but I knowing the women who work there, I suspect she was expecting to be shown how to do it for free. On yarn she had bought elsewhere.

Knitters with self-defeatist attitudes make me cranky.

Teaching after-work knitting classes to coworkers seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I don't actually get to knit myself it seems (at these sessions, I knit a lot other times) because I'm always helping which makes me dread it some days. It is cool to see everyone progress (and thankfully they all are) but after 6 months I'm ready to cut the cord. Also, I do not get why they ALL fell into knitting english when I knit continental so it's double frustrating to have to watch them do stuff and try to figure out what the hell is going wrong.

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I hate orange but here it sort of looks okay-ish.

I stopped making sweaters for adults. I hate it.Especially the arms. BLERGH. I would rather teach people but I doubt I'd be any good at that either.

I am so obsessed with jacquard - I hate when people misuse/mislabel it fair isle - that I would to incorporate it into every design. lololol

I found the Game of Thrones amigurumi patterns on Ravelry.

The library bookshop had the original Principles of Knitting for $1!!!

The Strand is selling it for $100.

And yet, with both versions and countless YouTube tutorials, I still can't quite get the tubular cast on.

i can't get that either, or the tubular bind-off

I am pretty sure I did the bind-off and it wasn't bad.

I think I am just too impatient for provisional cast ons.