The Knitters Thread

Karmacat

Phoebe, thanks, it does. It refers to "bind off" in the last sentence, doesn't it, and there it *must* mean cast off. But why do they use the initials before they use the full words? Thats rhetorical, sorry. Without a forum like this, I'd be totally lost.

Placket - there isn't an opening, but there is a V shape, rather than a flat neckline, so thats what the two sides each with their own ball of wool must be referring to. Okay, thats a *lot* clearer, thank you.

Karmacat

blueberry - crosspost, thank you too. Don't worry, none of it is obvious. I've knitted lots in my twenties, but always very basic patterns, and its always the weird abbreviations that get to me and I've given up knitting - I even gave away my needles! This is great!

greenpixey

Disflop wrote: »

Hi everyone - just wondering if any of you know of a site where I might find a pettern for 'mug warmers' please? Have got the notion to make a few of these as presents and fill the mug with goodies - but not doing very well in my quest to find a pattern and am certainly not an experienced enough knitter to make one up lol!

Mug Cozy, with tutorial
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=15524.0

lovely pattern on this one
http://mkcarroll.typepad.com/mk_carroll/2007/07/mug-and-french-.html

blueberrypie

greenpixey wrote: »

lovely pattern on this one
http://mkcarroll.typepad.com/mk_carroll/2007/07/mug-and-french-.html

It is a nice pattern - I doubt I'll ever knit it, because it doesn't take me that long to drink my tea ;-) - but I wanted to comment on the photo, in which there's a coloured paperclip being used as a stitch-marker - what a great idea! I have some standard little circles, some split circles, some gorgeous beaded hanging markers that a friend made me, and have in the past used eerything from bits of contrasting wool to pieces cut off plastic drinking straws LOL - I shall have to add "paperclips" to my list of possibilities :-D

tooties

wow those mug cosies look fab i never even knew that such a thing existed i think i could do a few of them for next xmas
thanks for the links
tooties

Happyroly

Disflop wrote: »

Hi everyone - just wondering if any of you know of a site where I might find a pettern for 'mug warmers' please? Have got the notion to make a few of these as presents and fill the mug with goodies - but not doing very well in my quest to find a pattern and am certainly not an experienced enough knitter to make one up lol!

I have made several from the free pattern on this blog.
http://homespunliving.blogspot.com/search/label/knitting
Some other really lovely things on the blog.

bikerchick1066

Well I have spent most of the weekend travelling to and from Manchester for my works do, and have knitted on a bus, a train and the tube. Only place I didn't manage it was the taxi, as there were five of us and assorted luggage all squeezed into a black cab, and I didn't want to stab anyone!
Have nearly finished the back of the jumper I started the night before I left. Am off to Holland on Tuesday so will be knitting in the car and on the ferry. Since I started knitting again a few months ago, I've been mainly knitting with big needles and really chunky wool. This one is in a sparkly black DK (£3.99 for 400g in Lidl) and I thought it would take me forever, but I'm hoping to finish it by the end of the week.

greenpixey

Besides http://www.kempswoolshop.com/ is there any other online shops that got sales on at the moment.
I'm hooked on the self-patterning wool like harry potter, King Cole zig-zag and artesano alpaca but cant find it "cheap" anywhere. Ebay is a bit steep price wise.

nuttywoman

I`ve decided to make myself some socks,lol, are they hard to knit? its years since i did any knitting, can do cable, pictures etc but i`ve never made socks! help?

mardatha

socks are addictive. not too big and not too boring. Just nice !