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It made the staff news feed. Big excitement in the library!

http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/bUutHO/ZoraBreedingSueEricksonandMollyDahlknittowelsfortheStaffLounge1206.JPG/main.jpg

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

woo-hoo!

did you make converts then?

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I did! I even taught my boss (blue shirt) how to purl in 5 minutes. She got the hang of it right away. I think there was talking of starting a lunchtime knitting club for the library.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone know how to make this type of stitch? It looks like a seed stitch on 'roids.

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/images/us/local/products/productsall/p261551.jpg

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the Vogue Knitting book has this stitch? Otherwise can you send me a bigger pic of the scarf to my email address (stevienixed at gmail.com) and I'll ask on the mailing list I'm on!

BTW Wish I was at that get together!

OTN: Matinee Cardigan (still! But not for long!), two scarves and a party dress. The latter was patterned by my teacher but I ph34R that she made a mistake as her head will AGAIN not fit through it. But I don't worry too much aout it as I have only done one panel so I Can either do an opening on the back or a sleeve. I think I'll go with a sleeve. :-)

nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

it's probably a lace-y type thing with ssk and yarnovers. looks cool.

i'm behind on all my craft gifts, argh.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm totally behind on all my craft gifts too. Although, Pride and Prejudice has been on HBO NON-STOP and I feel obliged to watch it every time it's on, so I am making some progress on my knitting.

Nath, that pic is from the Urban Outfitters site, and my friend (and fellow knitter) sent it to me asking. I don't know if I can get a bigger picture! When the holidays pass, I may try to sort it out myself.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/jump.jsp?itemType=PRODUCT&itemID=25147&iSubCat=88&iMainCat=77&pid=25147

Apparently, it's the popcorn stitch. Well, the scarf is called popcorn, so, the modern internets led me to this site:

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/na_knitting/article/0,2025,DIY_14141_3502420,00.html

AKA: Trinity Stitch.

Fun! I may try this when my mom's ripple stitch scarf is done.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, i was looking around, it looks similar to honeycomb, no? (scroll down)

http://www.ashidome.com/blogger/archive_craftystitch.asp

but yes popcorn looks better

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillarylang/25691744/in/set-546005/

I really want one of those stitch a day calendars.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The Honeycomb slip stitch is the coolest thing ever!

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

So, there was another knitting lesson today. My boss has a really odd way of holding the needles, and she's not getting any yarn tension at all. Her dish cloth is really loose, but I'm not sure if it matters too much, as it'll shrink in the wash. She claims she doesn't like the "jam the right needle under your armpit" approach, which I quite like, and I've tried teaching her the German style (continental?) and no dice.

What do I do?

I'm going to lend her Stitch n' Bitch this weekend.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

um.. .my needle never goes under my armpit. perhaps she should use shorter ones or circs. I think tension, holding just come with time. my first few attempts were pretty natty looking.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

She somehow plants one needle in her lap and works the other one around it. I think she just needs some guidance and where she should hold her yarn, etc.

I'm all about rockin' the needle in the armpit.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

doesn't that hurt your shoulder after awhile?

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 14 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

No no, not at all. It doesn't move, nor do your needles. I feel it's more efficient.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Thursday, 14 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I'd like to see that in action, I can't picture how I'd put the needle in my armpit and do anything other than stab myself.

patita (patita), Friday, 15 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i ph34r my teacher has no clue of baby sizes as the dress I'm knitting doesn't fit AT ALL. it'll basically be a *t-shirt*. :-( i love my teacher dearly - honestly i do - but i ain't gonna ask her to make me a pattern anymore.

nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 08:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i only do that needle in the armpit thing when using really long needles. it feels quite awkward, and i think for that reason i have a preference for shorter needles. i suspect the awkwardness is only a matter of practice though... doesn't seem to slow the speed of knitting so i guess i should just get over it rather than trying to squeeze too many stitches onto shorter needles.

Gem (gem ), Friday, 15 December 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Circulars people, circulars! They're not just for knitting in the round.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The long-needle-in-the-armpit approach gets lots of guffaws from hardened knitters, but I think you can see me doing it in the picture up thread. It's so easy for me. Less arm movement. I can do the continental style knit stitch, but purling that way is the bane of my existence.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: i'm not too fond of circs. i like'em instead of dpns but if they aren't necessary, i keep away from'em.

nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

why? srsly, my first knitting class introduced me to knitting straight with them and I've preferred them sense. stitches don't fall off in transport, you have plenty of room, etc etc.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

it feels a bit weird because the needles are so short, i guess.

nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i like circulars for straight knitting too, i've used them ever since doing a really long scarf in horizontal rows. i like to mix it up though and use normal needles every now and then though.

Gem (gem ), Saturday, 16 December 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

these are awesome:

http://www.clover-usa.com/cat.php?k=27241

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Saturday, 16 December 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

They are basically split circulars? Wow.

I've been working on wristwarmers for my little sister, and her tiny wrists make them look so strange. I needed to change from a size 9 to a size 4 needle to get them the right scale for her! Tiny dpns make for lots of finger poking. They are quite easy though, just a 2x2 rib with a gap for the thumb:
http://slumberland.org/wp/2005/12/14/pattern-1-day-wristwarmers/

Nathalie, somewhere I saw a pattern for a girl's dress that became a shirt as the child got older (a very simple a-line style). It seemed like a great way to extend the life of something that took so much effort to make! ok, here it is:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEspring04/PATTanouk.html
You could easily do something else with the pockets fr a different look.

patita (patita), Saturday, 16 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

My mu m sent me some of those takumi needles (but straight ones).

Oh wow, thanks for the dress pattern. I think I'll give it a go!

nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 16 December 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I decided to frog it. No point in even trying to salvage this by knitting a bit on below. :-(

nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 16 December 2006 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I just helped a lady at work who used to own a yarn shop in Manhattan. She and the store had a bad reputation, and boy oh boy, can I see why.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What did she do wrong?

nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

She had a rep for being bitchy and rude.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to own a yarn store. :(

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I spend so much time at mine, I got holiday hugs and kisses.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd give hugs and kisses!

I haven't been to my LYS in ages and ages. Mostly b/c 1. I've been sewing a lot more lately 2. buying lots of yarn off knitpicks for $$ reasons 3. they are far from me and I'm carless. :(

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My LYS is fairly uppity and over-priced. Lots of Range Rovers parked out front. I don't love it.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't found a LYS which I really like. One's a teeny weeny (heh) bit overpriced but the lady's quite nice if she's not pushing me into buying stuff. The other two, well, one was crap and the other I didn't like the lady that much. I'm itching to buy some yarn because I want to knit a big ole sweater for my mum. (I want it in one colour, namely the petrol blue colour you see in that sweater.) The reason I want to knit for someone else: I don't know if I'd really start wearing the damn thing once it's finished: It takes a long time to knit something and by the time I'm done, I'm fed up with it and secondly I have this freaky tendency to neglect something once it's finished. Even O's dress for example: she wore it once and that's about it. The pink one I've put on a few times but because I really forced myself to put it on. Weird.

The matinee cardigan is ALMOST finished but it has quite a few flaws. :-( I did the collar a bit wrong so it's a bit misshaped. :-( But it's a learning process and I can't imagine doing it 100 procent perfect, right? I hope it'll be finished by tomorrow so I can focus on the two scarves (and the sweater??? should I do it?). I'm terribly bad at doing something on order. I think in the future I won't accept orders because I'm terrible at following it through. :-(

We had the last lesson (for this semester) yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Easy. We learned a few stitches (moss, double moss, sand and some other stitches). I already knew the moss stitch (it's ftrd in the matinee cardigan) so I just had a lot of fun looking at some of the others who had no clue how to do it!?!? Maybe I'm not so much a novice anymore? :-)

I'm looking forward to the next semester. We'll be learning to stitch on patterns as well! As well as crochet on the knitting! I need to look up how this works so I'm a bit prepared (I feel more confident when I have an idea of what to expect).

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh in that pic on the left you can see this *brick stitch like$ sweater. A lady in our class - I call her the knitting machine (but not to her face naturally!) - knitted that in a dark purple colour. Without the fringes. She has the GREBTest taste! Knits like a mad overhyped knitting machine. But I doubt she'll stay in the class cause she already takes the second year as well.

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't moss stitch just knitpurlknitpurlknitpurlknitpurlknitpurlknitpurl? They had trouble with that?

Nath, don't worry about making mistakes now - O doesn't know what she's wearing anyway. Just make sure you've got it sorted before she starts school :)

Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha I bought the crazy Knit One magazine again, only to find it is the LOOOVE issue which sickens my terminally single heart. Apart from the "varsity style" his and hers jumpers which are AWESOME! I want to make one, but instead of saying "his" on it, it would say "arseface", or something! Or maybe HMHB. Marvellous, dears.

Otherwise most of things in it are just downright FRIGHTENING! But seeing as I wanted to make pretty much EVERYTHING in the TV issue you can't win them all. But seriously knitters GIVE UP on knitted corsets (altho they are architectually interesting I spose) and let's just pretend "Naughty Needles" doesn't exist. GET OVER IT CRAFTYGOTHS and stick to knitted glowsticks. (Actually they sounds awesome)!

I finished the clapotis by the way! But haven't blocked it yet or figured out how to take a great photo. It has turned out super-big.

So now I am just making a regular blue/green scarf in a zigzag UNDULATING pattern, erm dunno what the stitch is called but I like it, it's nicely textured. The wool is WENDY FUSION, which feels lovely, comes in super colours and is golly only £3 a ball how jolly.

I have to go to John Lewis before I head off for christmas to pick up some more balls of SIRDAR DENIM ULTRA! You heard! I am making the sock monkey blanket, and of course I don't have the yarns the pattern is in, so the brown is in megachunky sirdar cotton/wool mix and the red/white bits are two strands of aran acrylic and dk acrylic held together to try and match up the weights with what I've got.

I really want to knit this honeycomb stitch 60s-ish jacket that was in Simply Knitting a while back, but the cost would come to around £50 so FUDGE THAT and I will carry on with my £5 Primark hoodie.

xpost yeah that is moss stitch! But there are regional differences all over the place. If you are quite new - ie to the point where you are accidentally increasing and decreasing all over the place and can't identify what stitches you have already done - then it can be hard to keep track of stitches and accidentally turn it into ribbing... I know because that happens to me with the first couple of rows of cuff down socks ALL THE TIME. Well, it used to! It hasn't done recently. Cos I am great.

Sarah (Science of Unforunate Events), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, how has the woman in your club (class?) advanced with the cardigan? I AM VERY KURIOSLY ORANJ.

Yes! I know! I mean, WTF, MOSS STITCH! How hard can that be? "Can you tell me if I have to change now?" DUDE! I mean, sure, I ain't the bestest knitter in the class BY FAR but moss stitch is easy peasy.

We call American Moss Stitch: DUBBELE gerstekorrel (or double moss stitch). We also learned to make DAMBORD. One student: "Dambord?" Teacher:"Well, it looks like a dambord." hahahahahahahahahahaha Oh dear. Roffling insued. Well, not out loud nor on the floor. :-)

http://www.breiwinkel.nl/images/plaatjes/addi-express_komplett.jpg

I vaguely remember having this.

*childlike voice* I WANNA NOW.

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I have pics taken with my cellphone of my CLASS. Very tempted to post. :-D

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think moss stitch is seed stitch in the US? But yeah, it's fairly simple.

I bought the revamped Knit 1, and got some Art YArns Merino to make one of the hats... and some yarn to make the stuffed heart!! It would be a perfectly morbid thing to have for this Valentine's Day.

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah I think of moss stitch as being more diamond like. but according to this I am wrong:
http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/stitches/moss.htm

I'm so ready for new projects. Finished my grandmother's scarf last night (I was loving the pattern and yarn so much I had to force myself to stop as it was getting comically long.) But I'm hating my grandfather's. I keep screwing up the cable and have decided I hate the color.

and I don't think I'm going to finish the cardigan I did in MAY for my mother as I've also decided I hate it.

In sewing news. . .ugh.

Hey, has anyone ever seen a chart for the state of Texas? I know it has limited interest but all I've found is the flag. I want to make a purse for a london-relocated friend. I'm afraid I'll have to make the chart myself which could be ugly. . .

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a chart generator online that works from jpegs:
http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro.htm

I haven't used it yet but I've got a couple of things that I need to try on it as soon as the accursed holiday knitting is done.

patita (patita), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

after the accursed holidays we should get our knitting circle going again. is zoe still down?

i'm scared of the generator as texas is bumpy and I was hoping someone had already done it.

One of my first projects after xmas will be a big felted knitting tote for myself using the malcolm x chart on (?) MagKnits. I can't wait.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I used that chart generator to make my ZoSo scarf, which I finally finished and have given it away. He was so happy, that when he's not wearing it, it's on his mantle piece. So, yes, that chart generator works well. You just have to make sure you image isn't too ornate or large. That would make for hellish intarsia.

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

make sure you image isn't too ornate

http://austin.about.com/library/clipart/texas/dac10004thumb.gif

:( so bumpy.

I'll stop whining and probably give it a crack at lunch.

Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe something a bit more smooth, like the TX in the TX Instruments logo...

Woah. I just had a really good idea for NERD PRESENT.

http://www.gpsdaily.com/images/texas-instruments-logo-bg.jpg

molly mummenschanz (molly d), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/142/327586902_eacb9b2b91.jpg

Eh. I feel drained. On top of my cold, I see all the mistakes giggling at me. :-(

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

HEAR them giggling at me. Ah FOK it.

nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link


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