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kezbabybabe

chika wrote: »

I have a ball of King Cole Merino that I'm currently making a scarf out of. However in the ball there is a knot where the yarn has been joined together. Is this usual? I'm a bit annoyed as I don't want to just knit in the knot and I'm rather new to knitting and joining new yarn still traumatises me somewhat!

Thanks

I had this with the wool with my comfort wrap and I just carried on knitting with it. You can hardly tell on my wrap.

Careful_with_that_Axe

kezbabybabe wrote: »

I had this with the wool with my comfort wrap and I just carried on knitting with it. You can hardly tell on my wrap.

I'ver had multiple knots with Louise Harding yarns of all things. I've been led to understand that 3 knots/joins per 50g is the industry norm! :eek:

I would carry on knitting with it and, if the join is visible from the rs, maybe pop a stitch through it to secure it at the back of the finished work?

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kezbabybabe wrote: »

I had this with the wool with my comfort wrap and I just carried on knitting with it. You can hardly tell on my wrap.

It is very annoying when this happens.

Sorry, but as someone else has suggested earlier I would never knit in a knot. I would go back to the start of the row before and cut the knot out and rejoin the wool. Usually you are lucky and the knot cannot be seen, but you can ruin a garment by knitting one in. Also, you can never be sure that the knot will hold. The other problem can be that if you have an open weave-ish pattern the ends of the knot (no matter how small) can sometimes poke through onto the right side of the knitting and be seen.

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pigpen wrote: »

it makes you normal.. never iron either and certainly not knitted garments.. they are knitted washed to remove muckfrom manufacture and knitting and folded neatly until wearing

Back of Moomins christmas cardy amost done

Technically you are supposed to block (most) things after knitting to give a better finished look. The usual method is to pin the garment pieces into shape and then wet and leave to dry. Then you are supposed to sew the garment together after this.

However, I rarely do this as I cannot be bothered and also I just don't have the space to leave things out like this. With some knitted items you are supposed to block them (as a complete garment) after EVERY time they have been washed. Such as a lace shawl with scalloped edges.

ERICS_MUM

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

Technically you are supposed to block (most) things after knitting to give a better finished look. The usual method is to pin the garment pieces into shape and then wet and leave to dry. Then you are supposed to sew the garment together after this.

However, I rarely do this as I cannot be bothered and also I just don't have the space to leave things out like this. With some knitted items you are supposed to block them (as a complete garment) after EVERY time they have been washed. Such as a lace shawl with scalloped edges.

I used to knit lots of baby/toddler sized woollies and always blocked them like this. I found it makes it easier to sew them up and also gives a more professional finish.

mandy_moo_1

please can anyone offer any easy to understand advice?

how do i follow a pattern that is shown as a graph-type pattern? i find it so much easier to follow one when its written down, but a lot of the ones i like on ravelry are shown as a picture on lots of little squares!!

blueberrypie

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

please can anyone offer any easy to understand advice?

how do i follow a pattern that is shown as a graph-type pattern? i find it so much easier to follow one when its written down, but a lot of the ones i like on ravelry are shown as a picture on lots of little squares!!

Every one of those little squares represents one stitch. When you knit, you knit across one way and then back across your work in the opposite direction, and you work from the bottom to the top, so you read the chart in just the same way. Usually the very first stitch will be the bottom right square on the chart, then the second stitch on that row will be the square next to it, and so on across that row. On the next row, you'll be working from the line of squares above the first one, and your first stitch will be the first square on the *left*, then you'll work back across to the right.

If knitting in the round, it's slightly different, in that instead of working back across the graph in the opposite direction, you jump from the last (furthest left) square on row one to the first (furthest right) square on row two - just as you are doing on your knitting really.

If you take a piece of flat knitting and look at it and think of every stitch as a square, and think how you would write down on a graph what you did - did I knit or purl? what colour did I use? and so on - you'll soon understand how a chart works :-)

kinkine

maman wrote: »

Hello ladies (I think it's all ladies??). You may remember me asking advice when I started my Aran cushion a couple of weeks ago. Well it's all knitted, all I need to do now is make it up and add tassels to the corners. I've thoroughly enjoyed doing it and will be starting my next project soon.

Question(s) Do I need to press it before making up and if so how? What sort of stitch should I use for sewing the seams? TIA

Hi there Maman, I get a weekly e-mail from Knitting Daily and by chance there is a bit on finishing off - hope this is helpful.

http://www.interweave.com/wir/kr101218.htm#1

OrkneyStar

NualaBuala wrote: »

Hi everyone,

My friend has just had a baby girl and as I was pondering pressie ideas I suddenly wondered if I could knit something. I'm not very good so it would have to be something easy or else I'd be embarrassed to give it so it wouldn't be very moneysaving!

Also, I don't know anything about babies - do any of you know kinds of easy knitted things a new Mum would find useful?

Thanks in advance!

A hat might also be an easy option- there are loads on knittingpatterncentral.com and likely a few on ravelry too!
Lots can be done on two needles with simple knit/purl and only decrease when making brim!

mandy_moo_1

blueberrypie wrote: »

Every one of those little squares represents one stitch. When you knit, you knit across one way and then back across your work in the opposite direction, and you work from the bottom to the top, so you read the chart in just the same way. Usually the very first stitch will be the bottom right square on the chart, then the second stitch on that row will be the square next to it, and so on across that row. On the next row, you'll be working from the line of squares above the first one, and your first stitch will be the first square on the *left*, then you'll work back across to the right.

If knitting in the round, it's slightly different, in that instead of working back across the graph in the opposite direction, you jump from the last (furthest left) square on row one to the first (furthest right) square on row two - just as you are doing on your knitting really.

If you take a piece of flat knitting and look at it and think of every stitch as a square, and think how you would write down on a graph what you did - did I knit or purl? what colour did I use? and so on - you'll soon understand how a chart works :-)

thank you for helping me out ............ but ...........

the squares where they're ARENT any symbols....ie if they're empty....what stitch do i do in there? or is that where common sense is supposed to come in (which i've been told i dnt have any of lol!!) and just knit or purl them, depending on the pattern?

sorry if i sound dense, but i like to get my head round a pattern before i even attempt to knit it, as i'm still re-learning how to knit after a rather long break of 20 yrs!!!