I'm going to call it that from now on! Tell us some other Dutch terms! I will try and catch up with G and see how her cardie is getting on too.
I don't actually think the colourwork Texas will be that bad to be honest! The "bumpy" bit is only on one side so you'll just be changing colours pretty much twice on each row apart from one section - just sort yourself out with yarn on some bobbins and I think it will be a lot easier than you think!
You have no idea how happy it makes me to be learning a craft where I get to use the word 'bobbins' in a real actual sense!
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
That's it for today. I'll be testing you NEXT WEEK! ;-)
http://www.breienmetplezier.nl/breisteken.htm
One I hadn't heard before:
Luie Wijvensteek: Lazy Bitches stitch!
I'm EXTREMELY tempted to enroll in the lacemaking clas (and use BOBBINS). Should I? My husband thinks it's a HIDEOUS hobby. (As in VERY unsexxee.) Hmm what to DO.
Last night I was delirious after so much seaming and I'm also down with a bit of a cold, so hence the weirdo post. But now I'm FRESH and EAGER to start a new thing. I think I'll drop in the LYS and look how much that LANA GROSSA yarn costs for that sweater. Maybe I'm a bit too optimistic and I will fail miserably at it? One can only try! :-) Gotta learn from your mistakes.
:-)
When I'll be in Japan, I'll be stocking up on bamboo needles and SPECIAL yarns. OH YEAH. :-)
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
My husband thinks it's a HIDEOUS hobby. (As in VERY unsexxee.)
welcome to MY world.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I shipped out most of my holiday knitting last night and cringed at some of the things I did just a few months ago. I think it's just part of the learning process.
Nathalie, I'm very jealous of your Japanese yarn expedition! They have such fantastic stuff, weird funky textures and all that.
Do these men realize that we're armed with multiple sharp pointy sticks when they criticize our fun?!
― patita (patita), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
It is important that I have a cravat.
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, I already uh started something new. I'm a bit stupid. Made the swatch but the gauge is not exactly the same so I just started something for Ophelia when she'll be 18 months. :-) We'll see how it works out. I really need to buy yarn that's specifically for a pattern instead of going "ooh looks cute, I'll just buy it and find something I can make with it." I'm not advanced yet so unable to do that. :-) One day... one day.
Oh my husband doesn't mind me knitting - he's actually a bit in awe of it - but HATES lacemaking. He calls'em klip klop bitches. :-)
Yes! Japan! My mum even met Hirose, the Japanese Knitting King. They *vaguely* know eachother. How fucking cool is that? Very, I think. :-)
I really am tempted to go buy some Lana Grossa yarn. Must. Resist. Unless I get loads of cash from mes parents. Then I'll NEED to buy some. I wanna make that sweater for my mum. Hmmmm.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
email address: stevienixed @ gmail dot com
― nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.knittinghelp.com/
― Madchen (Madchen), Saturday, 23 December 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 23 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 23 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm finally back home after traveling to see relatives all week, ugh. I'm straightening up the knit/sew room since xmas has left it a mess. I'm also making room for new sewing furniture and new CAT! woohoo.
Only one up till midnight evening of crafting and I got all of my gift projects done. Here's the tally:
Sewn:2 fleece throws6 pairs of pajama pants
Knit:2 scarves3 purses4 hats
*cue Rocky theme*
pictures forthcoming when I put new batteries in my camera.
back to stash sorting.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 30 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 30 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Me? I'm doing this lacy type shawl (straight, yarn is for 4 mm needles but doing it with 9 mm ones so it looks lacy). Visited another yarn shop which was a MAJOR dud. :-(
I'm doing this raglan cardigan. Probably finish it in a week or so. I do need to start using yarn that's meant for the pattern instead of trying something that *sort of* matches. I'm not that advanced yet and won't be for another DECADE or so. :-)
I'm fascinated with those knitting machines (for kids, but aren't we all). Looked for one but only found french ones which seemed @$$. I want something that goes faster yo. :-)
Bought a Marie Claire Knitting Stitches book (just under 10 euros) and tried some last night only to discover/have reaffirmed: I'm stupid (figured out that multiples of 7 + 1 + 2 means mult of only 7) and that I have all thise nice MULTIcoloured yarn that doesn't work when you want to do *fancy sts*.
I'm SO READY for that Lana Grossa sweatah. I wanna make something for me me me. :-)
Also trying to finish scarf for husband but I ph34r working on order is not my thang, baby.
― nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 30 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
you are all over cardigans/sweaters. I need to attempt another big project like that soon. starting on my malcolm x tote now, v. excited.
I really don't understand knitting machines.
no kitty yet, we're going to get him/her next weekend. I'm just arranging my room for new litterbox, condos, etc. I threw all of qtip's old stuff away.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 30 December 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/misery/tags/xmas/
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Sunday, 31 December 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
While trying to avoid my family, I knit a bunch of dish cloths to give to people, one including my 84 year old grandma. She loved it!
A while back, I knit one of the ball band dishcloths for some friends, and they have yet to use it. They said it's too pretty to be used. While that's flattering, I kept thinking, "dudes, you will not understand its full potential until you experience its cleaning glory!" Oh well.
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61998082@N00/336485887/
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
goldfish would be neat!
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
boy gave me a stack of various knitting/sewing books for xmas and said "I don't think one of those is what you do. I wasn't sure." It was a crochet book but still welcome.
He also gave me a $100 gift certificate to the LYS which I used to buy an assload of Cascade 220 for my felted Malcom X tote. hurrah!
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Sunday, 31 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Someone plz tell me that if I suck and it takes 3 years to figure out, that I am not a Bad Person.
― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 1 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/341362410_9179752d04.jpg?v=1167688573
i just started knitting *properly* in july or something. :-)
― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 1 January 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 1 January 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gem (gem ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gem (gem ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
they're also good if you have to cast on 200 stitches and don't want to have to recount 5 million times.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Gem (gem ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I just registered at elann.com, oh dear.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Have never really successfully worked with stitch markers either, they always end up falling off. Whilst I was finishing the clapotis which admittedly is fairly straightforward, I just purled the stitches where the pattern calls for you to add stitch markers but this probably wouldn't work so well in proper lace! I'd like to have a go at a lace thing too. I tried a lace pattern before but it was with regular dk weight with only 6mm needles so it only came out textured - should have gone really oversized but I have got un-used to those massive needles.
Speaking of massive needles I saw a jumper calling for 25mm needles - argh! However how fast must that knit up - cast on 30 sts to start :)
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I've got plans to do some lace shawls for family, and right now I've got a skein of that sari silk stuff that I've matched up with a part silk part merino yarn and am knitting them at a huge gauge. It lets the random ends of the silk really blossom and be soft, plus the thing is still warm.
Learning to cable is next on the list.
I've used little rubbery stitch markers from Clover and they have functioned very well--no matter what I've been making, either the bright green or bright purple stands out well enough.
Sam, perhaps we can start getting together next week? As far as I know Zoe is still in. Would Maureen like to continue?
― patita (patita), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry for the death flu! I'm still struggling with this death bronchitis I've had ever since Stitch! ugh. . .
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link