Knit Your Square To Give Your Share 2009!

maytaurus

purple_82 wrote: »

Cable needles, are they the same as circular needles?

What is a Cable Needle?

http://knitting.about.com/od/toolsandsupplies/f/cable_needle.htm



circular needles
http://knitting.about.com/od/knittingskills/qt/circularbasics.htm

mioliere

Hi purple82 - cable needles are double-ended needles; to work cable you need to be able to slip stitches off the main needle onto a double-ended needle, which you put either behind or in front of the main knitting. The pattern will then tell you to knit the next few stitches on the main needle, then the stitches on the cable needle. This gives the 'rope' effect of cable.

Circular needles are for knitting in the round. If you google 'cable knitting tutorials' and 'circular knitting tutorials', I'm sure you'll find some instructions with pictures which will help more than my explanations!

Maytaurus - I'll pm you my email address. I just can't get that link to work at all.

Thanks

KathyXX

mioliere

Purple - I see Maytaurus has come up trumps again - she will always find answers to questions and we couldn't function without her!

Thanks Maytaurus!

KathyXX

maytaurus

It's all lies :rotfl::rotfl:
mioliere you are very naughty
I just tried to pm you and got this message
mioliere has exceeded their stored private messages quota and can not accept further messages until they clear some space.
:doh:
oops just pm'd sack boy to you to see if it would open through your messages
if it won't,let me know & I will email it :doh:

:think::think::think::think:

I'll just email it anyway
let me know if either of them open :rotfl:

purple_82

Ahhhh of course of course! Thank you :j

mrs-moneypenny

love the sack boy pattern, i must knit one of those.

update from me 2 buntings

shelly ive posted a parcel off to you this morning its hats buntings and a couple of prem cardis, i hope you can find a use for them all. thanks in advance for putting the buttons on;)

mioliere

Hi all.

Maytaurus - I have emptied my message box! Thanks for the link to the sack boy pattern. I have now successfully downloaded it and saved a copy. Many thanks for doing that.

I hope everyone has a great evening. I shall be having an early bath and settling down to some knitting and crochet (and, no doubt, dozing off!)

KathyXX

ShelBell

Arrrghhhhhh Crochet :mad: it is too hard and the book isn't clear and i don't know what I'm doing and it's too hard.

Followed an online tutorial which helped a bit. But it's hard.

Have managed to do the chain for the vent hat. Giving up now.

maytaurus

Have you tied this link from the first page?
http://www.videojug.com/search?keywords=crochet

mioliere

ShelBell - just try doing a crochet square to start off with, not anything that requires shaping or following a pattern. Crochet starts off seeming impossible to do but, once it has clicked into place, it's really easy, I promise! Here's a link to a You Tube tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w45qDIM5S9Y It's good because it shows you how to hold the wool and so on.

KathyXX