The Knitters Thread

Seakay

Now that I have finished laughing I have to express my admiration for your multi-tasking, whatatwit! I think that I am doing well if I manage to knit and watch TV at the same time!

Tracey04

are teapot cosies easy to knit - any free patterns anywhere!!!

My tea goes cold so quickly

Thanks T ( T for Tracey not for Tea)

kay41_2

I have a friend with plenty of money who is expecting a baby soon. she really appreciates hand made things and I thought I might knit her baby a blanket. I was thinking of making one from about 12 squares (so the thing doesn't get too bulky and heavy) and want to do something more shaker style rather than traditional baby style - maybe with patterns of hearts in each square. Any ideas? I might just get out my book of knitting stitches and try and work out my own pattern, but I'm not that great at it. I would like to knit it in cotton or cashmere/merino type wool to be really snuggly. Don't want to do more than say 2 colours (alternating squares) and may crochet a border. Don't want it in easy care acrylic wool or anything like that. I would love suggestions of any books that I could get hold of to find a pattern that's not too hard. I have a book called Tadpoles and Tiddlers by Rowan that has one pattern in, but even that is a bit fussy for my taste.

I have a friend who crochets baby blankets which are fab, but I don't really know how to crochet well enough. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Oscar

I am tempted to get into knitting again reading through your threads. I went through a phase about two years ago when the furry wool was all the rage and knitted several scarves. I knitted lots of nine stitch ones with two balls off wool mixed on very large needles as they knitted up really quick.
I lost/left behind my scarf the other week after a boozy Christmas night out so will be replacing that. But would like to attempt a baby cardi.....
I also think it would be great if there could be more photos of your finished articles....perhaps a new thread a bit like the 'Finished baskets' thread.

D&DD

Wilkinsons had a lot of their wool knocked down on their website today might come in handy for some of you hopefully
I still haven't dug my cotton out yet for my dishcloths but I will hopefully when the kids go back to school

Hazel_Dudley

Hello Ladies, and Happy Holidays!

I have a question and I'm hoping you can advise me? I have two knitted jumpers that I would like to unravel and re-use the wool to knit squares for a blanket ( so determined am I to money save ) and I wondered if there was a right, or wrong way, to do this? I was just going to undo them and unravel, but I thought I'd ask first if anyone had any tips?

Seakay

Tracey04 wrote: »

are teapot cosies easy to knit - any free patterns anywhere!!!

My tea goes cold so quickly

Thanks T ( T for Tracey not for Tea)

There's a few here (amoung other things)

http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/cozies.php

and here's another:

http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/teacosies/cable-teacosy.htm

whatatwit

Hi Hazel, I would unpick the seams first, if they are hand knit, should be quite easy to pull back.
If they have been machined, you may need to cut them to start it off.
I tend to have my little digital scales handy, so that I can weigh out the amount of wool in each ball, if the balls get too big, they become hard to knit with.
Any short bits can always be used for sewing up afterwards.

Seakay

kay41 wrote: »

I have a friend with plenty of money who is expecting a baby soon. she really appreciates hand made things and I thought I might knit her baby a blanket. I was thinking of making one from about 12 squares (so the thing doesn't get too bulky and heavy) and want to do something more shaker style rather than traditional baby style - maybe with patterns of hearts in each square. Any ideas? I might just get out my book of knitting stitches and try and work out my own pattern, but I'm not that great at it. I would like to knit it in cotton or cashmere/merino type wool to be really snuggly. Don't want to do more than say 2 colours (alternating squares) and may crochet a border. Don't want it in easy care acrylic wool or anything like that. I would love suggestions of any books that I could get hold of to find a pattern that's not too hard. I have a book called Tadpoles and Tiddlers by Rowan that has one pattern in, but even that is a bit fussy for my taste.

I have a friend who crochets baby blankets which are fab, but I don't really know how to crochet well enough. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Few ideas here:

http://www.coatsandclark.com/Crafts/Knitting/Projects/BabyChild/SB257-002+Squares+and+Stripes.htm


http://cache.lionbrand.com/patterns/BK4K-0603002.html

http://www.knittingpatterncentral.com/directory/baby_blankets.php

http://www.castoncastoff.co.uk/blog/category/projects/alphabet-blanket/

Seakay

D&DD wrote: »

Wilkinsons had a lot of their wool knocked down on their website today might come in handy for some of you hopefully
I still haven't dug my cotton out yet for my dishcloths but I will hopefully when the kids go back to school

Can you put a link on? I've had a look but I can't see the wool, cheers!