The Knitters Thread

meanmarie

I always have two blankets 'on the go'....one consists of 6 inch garter stitch squares knitted with any heavy wool left over, the other in stripes of fine wool in a feather stitch...can't do the whole width at one time, gets too heavy, so do three and crochet together with something that matches most colours...again all leftovers....depending on my level of 'ordinary' knitting projects they can take months or years to finish, but always leaves me something different to take on when I get fed up.

There is also the matter of 'hiding' knitting from people I am knitting for, currently I have baby knitting on needles for a friend, she is coming on Saturday so I will switch to the knitting I am doing for C'mas for my two granddaughters.

I tend to knit in 'fits and starts', I can knit a sweater in a few days or take months...I have a funny allergy type thing which sometimes comes up as blisters on my forearms just above my wrists, have to give up when it erupts as I have never found any remedy and it first happened to me over 40 years ago...disappears quickly once I stop.

Marie

mioliere

stressedoutmumof1 wrote: »

In case anyone's interested, Jean Greenhowe has got a new free pattern on her website for Mini Christmas Stockings

Thanks for the link, STRESSEDOUT - lovely patterns and ideal for using up odds and ends of wool!

kathyXX

DonnaP

Hi

I am inspired to give knitting another go after reading this thread - my only worry is that I haven't knitted since I was about 11 years old and I am now 41! I am not sure where to start, but I am sure it will come back to me.

Does anyone have any tips for remembering what to do??

Donna

whatatwit

DonnaP wrote: »

Hi

I am inspired to give knitting another go after reading this thread - my only worry is that I haven't knitted since I was about 11 years old and I am now 41! I am not sure where to start, but I am sure it will come back to me.

Does anyone have any tips for remembering what to do??

Donna

Hi Donna, if you have a look through some of the earlier threads, there are links to sites with free patterns.
I suppose one of the easiest to start with is a scarf....or even a square for charity....PenelopePenguin has posted a link for knitting a red square. Her daughter and mine are learning to knit with that one.
If you haven't any needles, then try local charity shops, usually the independant ones keep needles, usually in the back. The chains looked at me as though I had sprouted a second head when I asked in their shops.

For cheap wool, try the pound shops.

Keep us posted on how you are doing though.

The Twit

Olliebeak

Hi Fozz - I'm another one that always has more than one knitting project on the go at any given moment in time. Usually a piece of crochet as well.

DonnaP - Can only echo what other posters have already said - try the charity shops for knitting needles - you should also drop on some knitting patterns there as well - but some of them may be rather old fashioned (thought often back in style again - I got a beautiful angora bolero pattern for my dgd originally published in 1957!). Definitely start off with something small till you regain your knitting confidence and speed - and then away you go. Nothing ever really changes in knitting (apart from perhaps the styling of clothes) - the abbreviations etc are all still the same. Yarns come and go - so beware of patterns that stipulate a particular 'named' type of yarn as it may not be available these days. Good old chunky is still chunky, aran is still aran, and double knit is still double knit. You may not find 'quickerknit' anywhere - I've personally not seen that around for many years now and many places will insist that you buy an entire packet of 3 ply as there is so little call for it nowadays that they often have to order it in specially for customers.

Good luck with whatever you decide to have a go at! - and welcome back to the 'knitting fold'!

tooties

evening all,
i have at least two projects on the needles at any one time, santa is taking priority just now though i have to admit.
he is coming along fine its just a shame i have a compulsion to spend so much time on this site (thank goodness its back, its been a very long four days), going to college and doing housework or sant might just have been finished by now.
ah well another day tomorrow.
hows everyone else doing with santa?
regards
tooties

tooties

by the way can anyone advise me what the equivelent of quickerknit is?
thanks in advance
just dont want to feel i am missing out on anything.
tooties

meanmarie

HI all,

DD4 decided that she wanted knitted gloves for winter, had to go for fine wool as she drives to college and I find it difficult to drive in anything other than fine gloves. Found a few patterns from the forties, knitted them yesterday as there was no MSE and I couldn't be doing too much work on Sunday could I? Not mad about the finished product as the pattern did the thumb separately and told you to leave a 2 inch gap to sew it into...they will do as I am not repeating the exercise in a hurry...there are at least four gilet type things waiting to be knitted when I get round to it, and the apparently never ending baby knitting these days.

Wonderful to be back

marie

cazarol

tooties wrote: »

evening all,
i have at least two projects on the needles at any one time, santa is taking priority just now though i have to admit.
he is coming along fine its just a shame i have a compulsion to spend so much time on this site (thank goodness its back, its been a very long four days), going to college and doing housework or sant might just have been finished by now.
ah well another day tomorrow.
hows everyone else doing with santa?
regards
tooties

I'm doing very well, but am dreading the stitching up. I knitted up to half way of his face and rang out of light pink on Saturday night so started on the little bits. Have got the beard done, moustache, tops of boots and finished the cap last night.
I love the knitting but hate sewing up...
How are you doing

mioliere

CAZAROL - I always save sewing up my knitting so that I can do it in daylight; I find it so much easier than trying to do it under electric light. I don't dread it quite so much now that I've realised how much easier it is! I have to agree that it is the worst part of knitting, especially when you are making toys and there are lots of small fiddly pieces.

For all those knitting Jean Greenhowe's Santa, he is worth it and will become such a member of the family that you'll hate putting him away!