ILX Knitting

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!

Some people swear by Brown Sheep but I'm not too crazy about it. Maybe Cascade 220?

I will try and find a link to the useful yarn-finder site I've used in the past. . .

http://www.yarndex.com/

I don't have a pattern yet as we're going to design it with the instructors in class. I just did a bag in brown sheep and liked it but I don't know about a sweater. I was also thinking Cascade 200. hmm.

My booga bag is felted and both it and the cable-y tote I just did in class are blocked and finished. I need to get batteries for my camera to take pictures.

I think I really like felting(fulling).

Beth, when your Mom's better you can give her the scarf you made.

http://static.flickr.com/36/102416231_21a1585393.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/39/102416236_f2eab0e7b2.jpg

I taught myself the basics from a book - enought to make hats and scarves. Then I signed up for classes at my LYS. I would also look into local knitting groups.

It got ultra-cold here last week, so I got out my favorite knitted thing from last year - it started as a sort of cowl, just a tube basically knit from 3 skeins of Jewelbox Amethyst (velvety black with bright purple/teal/jade ribbon) on an 8 mm 32" circular. It made a tube about 2.5 foot tall and about the same in diameter to start with. After a few days, it stretched out into a long circular scarf that works well looped about and twisted and is ever so warm and soft.

http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/

I taught myself with help from teh internets!

Let me see if I can find the easy casting on page I used (I find most of them very confusing).

Here it is:

http://www.theyarnco.com/cast_on.php

but mossy green with brighter accents.

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/sock%20-%20left%20foot.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/sock%20-%20right%20foot.jpg
CLUB FOOT HAHAHA

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/socks%20-%20both%20feet.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/sox/socks%20-%20by%20themselves.jpg

http://www.atommickbrane.com/gfx/knitting/socks2.jpg

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