ILX Knitting

-a cabled purse we're doing in class. I love cable and what to jump on a sweater next.

-the ubiquitous Booga bag made with Kureyon. This will be my first felted piece.

I'm definitely ready to move on from purses and scarves to a real garment.

I've never done a cable - are they not incredibly tricky with all those special needles and all?

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTcleo.html

I started it forever ago but quit after one boob.

Roffle! Tweeness! (best thing ever, obviously)

I need to learn how to knit again, I used to love it when I was younger. My mum keeps making me lovely jumpers and cardies and I wish I could do so myself.

legwarmers
baby booties
warm ear cover things to use on a bike helmet

I'd love to knit a sweet little hat with 1/2 ear flaps. I need to find a good recipe. Besides knitty.com, where does everyone get their recipes from?

So far cabling has been much easier than I thought. The basic concept is easy though patterns themselves can get tricky. I think if you can get good at reading charts you'll be okay. (special needles = just any kind of needle which you use to hold stitches on)

I should take pictures later of the two purses I'm making.

I am also doing a sweater from Stitch n Bitch Nation, but instead of making a flower with felted yarn, I am making a turntable.

I want both these sweaters done by March.

I made the Spider Wen capelet from SNBN last weekend.

I ripped out a sweater I made but never sewed together and am making a blanket from it.

I started a little ballet wrap, that went quickly but I never got around to knitting the 2nd sleeve.

I made striped knee high socks, and with the leftover yarn I started a doll from the Knitted Babes book.

And I have about ten different colors of Cotton Classic to make the rock star dolls, but only made a body for one so far.

awesome. my teacher suggesed felted flowers for the booga bag I'm making but I'm just not flowery. I've been trying to think of some other thing to attach to it. I was thinking maybe a skull and bones.

R/Z have you ever done illusion knitting? what are your favorite yarns? I have some thick Rowan yarn that I want to do something with, just don't know what yet. It's really nice but it was $16 a skein so I don't want to waste it.

I like Lorna's Laces Shepard Sport for sock yarn SO SOFT SO PRETTY

I broke a bamboo dpn this month.

HOLY X-POST!

Here are my current WIPs. There are many bags as gifts in my future. .

The booga bag:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/booga1.jpg

knitted in the round with Noro Kureyon. It's really simple, just 64 rows of garter stitch. I think I must have picked up some stitches or I just knit too loose b/c it seems to big. The pattern calls for an i-cord handle. If I like it when it's felted I might do a shorter one with bamboo handles.

the cable bag:
http://askforjanice.com/photos/knitting/cable_bag1.jpg

Also knitted in the round with Lamb's Pride Bulky. Simple cable on the long sides and seed stitch on the sides. Just missing handles and lining now.

I love single-ply yarn.

I have a set of Denise; I like them a lot.

bbut, teeny, you could be doing so much baby knitting!

I want to a cabled sweater next.

the only thing that doesnt appeal to me about knitting is huge stitches. i like my clothes to be really tightly stitched. is this possible with knitting? a pain in the ass? can you knit with cashmere?

How big your stitches are depends on your yarn, needle size, and how tightly you knit. If you're knitting to gauge, your stitches should be fairly tight.

Cashmere is expensive. I have priced some of the patterns in some of the higher end magazines, and they would run you $700-900 in yarn.

I knit English (at least I think I do--I carry the yarn in my right hand. Isn't that English?) and suspect I will stick with that, as I don't knit so much that I fear injury and I don't much care about slowness.

Does anyone here do the mysterious "Combination" knitting?

between computering and my other needle activities I have a lot of problems with pains in my elbow/shoulders. I can only knit for a couple of hours at a stretch before I have to rest. :(

since continental trips me up as it is I don't want to even think about combination. . .

Mrs. L was asking.

I also knitted two socks and am starting on a third from a new pattern written by a friend, except that's on pause whilst I try and crank though the end of the jumper. Sock yarn = Opal sock yarn - I've so far got two small ankle socks from it and am making another, more for practice than desire to wear them RLY.

Any ideas on how to use up 10 balls of Rowan Linen Drape? (Liberty sale last summer, arf) - in a rather bright blue...

I also have looooads of various acrylic dk left over form present making that I was thinking of making into a father dougal style tanktop. HOWEVER - I'm a bit fat giffer and fear the bosom area just NOT working, so I want to look into some, sigh, real actual designing skills so it fits NICELY... I dunno.

I ALSO have to knit thank you presents for some of my chums who have been SCAMPS :)

And a knitted tea cosy. For a wedding present. Yaaaaaay for knitting!

Nathalie, I'm very sorry to hear that this dress is giving you such trouble! I've been thinking about trying this cardigan sweater pattern for little kids, it doesn't look very daunting (and it will fit every kind of head!):
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall02/PATThaiku.html

My dress is nearly finished. A million stitches, a gazillion errors. I'm trying not to care.

http://zerointerrupt.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/afb003.jpg

It needs some buttons (on the back and on the one sleeve) and a ribbon. It's an empire dress.

Tell me your first finished projects looked as crap as mine does? It doesn't look crap? Well, the pic is fuzzy, I guess. ;-)

And patita, microfiber for the swiffer cover! genius!

WADDAYSAY? I think it's okay for a first attempt. :-D It has loads of mistakes (that only knitters can notice, I've checked this - heh) but I don't care, she can WEAR IT!

Great work Nath! Talk about dedication! In fact, you're scaring me a bit :)

or maybe an ilx sock-a-long??

A yarn swap could be very cool as well--how does it work?

I'm knitting a triangle scarf thingie for Ophelia. I'm doing a HUGE one so she can put it on her lap when we go walking. :-)

I like the dress, but I've grown (already!) fed up with all the colours. :-) Next time it'll be in MONOcolour. :-)

Are cardigans that hard to knit? I've seen one in Simply Knitting (Matinee something) and I desperately want to knit the thing though I don't understand the whole pattern. HELP.

Sock-a-long = we all knit a sock at the same time! However, after the happy short row disaster of Tropicana, leading to a lot of ripping back and wailing, I can't face doing another sock at the moment, going all out on clapotis 'scarf' (it looks more like being a bloody blanket at this rate, but I like blankets, so hey), another scarf (a NORMAL one this time), more katamari cousins to crochet - and I have recieved a VEEEERY thorough short row explanation and method to fix the gappy heels which I want to try out on a flat piece of ARAN knitting before I start the sock heel again. Yes, I could just try and work out a pick up heel flap thing again, but I like the end result of a proper short row heel more I think.

I can't but do several projects at the same time cause I think I'd fall asleep and drool over one project. :-)

Can anyone recommend me any fantastic books on knitting? I already have that Vogue one. But I would like to have more (hah!). I also have that Debbie Stoller one. (And some others that are not important enough to mention... Okay, that Dummie one. God, that's a mediocre one.

Oh yes! I still need to put a ribbon through the dress but I don't want to do that. What should I do instead, Crochet one or do an i-chord? Is the latter difficult to make?

Last Minute Knitted Gifts
Stitch N Bitch
Mason Dixon Knitting
One Skein

I should dig into vintage "classic" knitting books like Vogue knitting & whatnot. I'm also interested in reading Elizabeth Zimmerman's books & Debbie New.

And I was thinking I could take pictures of my sock in progress, to show short rows and picking up stiches, etc etc.

Good luck with the sewing, Sam. That is next year's ability to learn for me.

"The Knitting Answer Book: Solutions to Every Problem You'll Ever Face; Answers to Every Question You'll Ever Ask" has been a really handy resource as I've taught myself how to do new kinds of stitches and short row stuff. It helps decipher the more complicated instructions in patterns.

That orange bobbly cable on the cover of Simply Knitting gives the model super-powered nipples. I giggled when I got it!

I bought two balls of worsted weight to make a scarf for my grandmother but I don't think it will be enough. I have a couple of skeins of a darker, matching shade in bulky lamb's pride. how can I combine the two for one scarf? I was thinking of doing something lengthwise with a few rows in the lighter weight then a few rows in the bulky weight. Is this possible? will I have to knit separately and then graft together? (hope not.)

So my knitting crazy girlfriend took a weaving class this weekend. And last night she bought a 60 inch table loom.

Oh wait, she didn't buy it.

I'd love to weave but 1 I don't have the time and 2 I would probably suck at it. :-( I'm so bad at crafts. I often ask myself why I knit. :-(

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/3786408638_da3710a250.jpg

-> From Modern Lace Knitting. Should have been done in fine cotton but I have just started with lace knitting so wanna take it easy. As soon as you get the structure it gets easier.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/3702925467_deee8ccb13.jpg

This scarf is superfun and superfast (if you continue doing which I haven't but I will finish second half PROMISE)

Started doing lace knitting. Yes, I'm crap at it. Not as crappy as my gauge measuring, but still crap enough.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2658/3702925467_deee8ccb13.jpg

Lace 'n' bobble hat

Oops

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2526/3807304205_983aa7f5c2.jpg

Austin, did she STEAL it???????? ? ???

I have the top of an orange cardigan I'm making, sitting in my lap AS I TYPE.

i'm almost done with this http://www.kelbournewoolens.com/springtimebandit.html but i'm trying to fix a mistake that involves a dropped yarn-over 2 rows back so it's at a standstill. going to start a pair of sox soon

Ha, that was the next thing I planned to make! I think I left the yarn for it in a hotel room tho

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My knitting has slowed to a crawl this summer. It's taken 6 weeks to get 2/3rds through the second of these socks:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3655/3605099195_9910cdd9f9.jpg
I'm doing a laceweight top-down sweater at the same time which is miles of stockinette and the occasional yarnover; it's at the 1/2way point and is gratifyingly sweater-shaped.

Oh no! for lost yarn - are you positive it's not in your house? I drove myself crazy for a few months, because I KNEW I'd bought 3 skeins of this variagated blue/gray/cream stuff and I couldn't find it anywhere. It turned up stuffed in the back of a sock drawer, no idea how it got there.

lolabbott

No. She decided she lacked the room for it. She's still looking at looms, though. And she did buy a bunch of knitting machines from cl.

My aunt has a kn machine. Should speak to her again so I can "borrow" it from her. She hardly ever uses it, so it seems.

I fear my stash has grown as rapidly as my rec collection. Yiiikes.

Also, as weird as it sounds: I am not interested in the finished projects. I have a ton of hats that I need to "donate". ha

I skipped out on the Sock Summit that was held down in Portland a few weekends back, but am going to the Mariners' Stitch&Pitch. Plenty of stash-building opportunities.

I am planning on going to the Mets Stitch&Pitch with my non-knitting Mets fan.

Did anyone The Colbert Report with the Maine Congresswoman? As soon as he started to fake snore when she talked about knitting, I knew that was going to end up on Ravelry.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7433117 :-)

You should check out the poop they knit. Or what about the tampons (yes, they actually use'em).

bahahaha I did see that on Colbert. Did you see the "Nailed 'em" feature on that show about the "activist knitter" who got put on a suspected terrorists list & wasn't allowed to board a plane?

poop! tampons! rofl