K3tog: ILx Knitting 3

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.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6767850079_a7faf2f6d2_z.jpg

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!

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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.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/7037892771_5b3b0bbc09_z.jpg

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.

I am totally *in love* with linen right now.
Linen!

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

:O

ANYWAY why does linen have to be so expensive?

I'll bet it's a bitch to spin. I'm knitting up some DK weight Euroflax right now! Super spendy and like knitting a wire, but the sample knitted up in the store (a drapey open top called Twisted) was so gorgeous and had such a smooth heavy hand. I was totally sold and blew my entire yarn budget on 4 skeins.

Euroflax hurt my fingers.

If I washed the hand towel I made with it a few times, I'm sure it would turn out nice.

I went to the big yarn sale at my local shop. Louisa Harding for $1 a ball!! I haven't knit anything with all the sale LH I bought last summer, oops.

I'm going on a yarn excursion tomorrow with a visitor - involves knitting on the ferry, so extra fun.

Tried to stave off the yarn buying urge by organizing the part of my stash that is hidden in the basement, but it had no effect - I used all my birthday $$ on pretty pretty handpainted laceweights from Etsy and ThinkBamboo laceweight from Amazon.

New yarn is pretty fucking hard to resist. Also it's an awesome birthday treat.
I bought myself a ballwinder and swift as a grad-present-to-myself, but I haven't used them yet. I told myself if I ever got one, I'd rip apart all the (embarrassingly large #) of projects I didn't finish because I fucked them up too bad (or worse, two sweaters I gained too much weight during the process of making to have the end product fit). And then rewind the yarn and reuse it. Sounds very virtuous but now that I have the object I'd been telling myself was the key to doing it, I realize it sounds like the world's biggest pain in the ass. I'm thinking of just mercy killing a few of them, esp. the sweaters.

Plus I recently reread the always great Knitting in Plain English and she makes it sound like the ripped apart, washed, rewound, reused yarn is not worth messing around with.

If it's inexpensive yarn, I wonder if it would worth the effort. I can see trying to salvage expensive stuff though. Except not mohair, which I just don't like.

There's some reclaimed heathery green cashmere on Etsy I am seriously tempted by.

what weight is it?

I guess it depends on the yarn and how much you like it.

I did rip out a sweater and make a blanket out of it. It was somewhat crappy yarn but the blanket is still good.

Abbs, it's like cobweb weight.

One of the women in my knitting group is a keen frogger - whatever she's working on, she will have ripped it completely back multiple times. Once we get back to a regular schedule, I'm going to talk about lifelines. Now I've finished a second diagonal garter lace shawl (vv simple pattern), I want to do some complicated lace, which seems to call for lifelines.