The Knitters Thread

homealone_2

i thought it might be really helpful to list what you have in your stash and see if anyone can come up with some lovely patterns that can be used with it, bit like the storecupboard challenge? i have loads some with only 2 or 3 of the same batch and some even just one odd ball, but there are only a certain amount of squares, socks, toys etc you can make and other knitters may see combinations you dont, or just knitted something that you could also knit with some of the wool you have shown in your stash, for example i have just come across a pattern for a basic dk black wool vest that has eyelash yarn knitted around the cast on edge which looks really nice and a good way of using up an odd ball of the fun fur/eyelash type of yarn that everyone seems to have.

anyhow what do you think of the idea? or do you think its more trouble than its worth?

for example a few of mine are:

22 black chenille craft yarn in 190 metre balls
7 black "pound shop" 120g balls machine washable
2 "patons lush" 50g 0004 shade pink
20 "sirdar foxy" 50g shade badger black & gold

pigpen

I lost the key to the wardrobe housing my stash.. the wardrobe has to go in the next month and I can't get in it... it is excessive to tip the wardrobe and remove the top?

I KNOW I have 1000g bright red aran and about the same in bright pink chunky I want to use these up next. I have still knitted nothing fo the baby.

Todays challenge is finishing the cardy I am doing for Squeak.. I haven't touched it in 3 weeks and I have half a sleeve to do the rest is all done!

psso

whats in your stash?

Wouldn`t know where to start I`ve got so much I could stock a shop.

Trouble was, the guy who used to run the local papershop/sweetie shop/woolshop/everything else shop, was closing down to emigrate to the States and as I went to school with him, he gave me first pick of the yarn - at half price !! Would have been very rude to refuse an offer like that so now I have SABLE.

Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy.

And I still buy more when the opportunity arises.:T

OrkneyStar

psso wrote: »

whats in your stash?

Wouldn`t know where to start I`ve got so much I could stock a shop.

Trouble was, the guy who used to run the local papershop/sweetie shop/woolshop/everything else shop, was closing down to emigrate to the States and as I went to school with him, he gave me first pick of the yarn - at half price !! Would have been very rude to refuse an offer like that so now I have SABLE.

Stash Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy.

And I still buy more when the opportunity arises.:T

I have quite a wee stash too :o:o:o. There will be a use for it all, even if not in my lifetime lol!
Anyhow just popped on to show you all this:http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/OrkneyStar/64165774/PIC_1537_medium.JPG
Fairly happy with it (one raglan seam is annoying me slightly, at very top, but may be being over-critical!), it is for an old school friend I have been in contact with through facebook. The white cable hat I showed a while back is for her too. Said if she wanted something pink or blue once bump is born then I could do that.

homealone_2

hi everyone, glad to see we all still tackling our nearly finished ones. i am about to unpick a aran jumper in a tweed type wool for ds1 3 years ago and have promised him a finished article by xmas. dd2 liked her fingerless gloves so much she has put in an order for some grey ones also for xmas. i still have this red eyelash cardi that i am hunting out a pattern for. am going away this weekend and in the town centre the last time i was there i found a really old fashioned dusty looking wool shop, it was closed being a sunday but when looking through door and windows it was like one of the old type shops from years ago. it had stuff in the window for sale that someone had knitted up using the shops wool and pattern and then selling on. baby cardis were only a couple of pound and it had some sets to make stuff with. dont remember much ore besides it looking like a cave from the outside with little shelves and stuff hanging down. hope am not disappointed now only to return and find the shop had actually closed down which is why it looked so unkempt. but will let you all know if i manage to add to my meagre, compared to some stash lol. before i go some of the recent stuff i have bought has come in either 250g packs or 400g packs. does anyone have a chart or something for me to work from, like average jumper with long sleeves uses about 400g or whatever the answer is? be really useful as i dont know what to use up on blankets in case there had been enough to use on item of clothing etc thanks in advance and have a happy knitting week

Keiss_21

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I have quite a wee stash too :o:o:o. There will be a use for it all, even if not in my lifetime lol!
Anyhow just popped on to show you all this:http://images4.ravelrycache.com/uploads/OrkneyStar/64165774/PIC_1537_medium.JPG
Fairly happy with it (one raglan seam is annoying me slightly, at very top, but may be being over-critical!), it is for an old school friend I have been in contact with through facebook. The white cable hat I showed a while back is for her too. Said if she wanted something pink or blue once bump is born then I could do that.

Ooh, Orkney, is that from a baby pattern book of eons ago (Patons I think)?? I have a copy of that pattern book..we lost the original (it was my granny's and was falling apart when I started knitting from it when I was 5 , but I found a copy a few years back for 10p, so had to have it. There is a lovely cardigan where you start at one sleeve cuff and knit right the way to the other sleeve cuff, increasing for the body in the middle. I think I have knitted it well over ten times in my knitting career.

I would go and check now, but my main stash of pattern books is in a storage box with a stash of wool on top, and part of DH's Father's Day pressie (Hugh Laurie CD). As the box is in the sitting room where DH and DS2 are watching the rugby highlights...rifling through the box is not an option atm

As for declaring all my stash...not sure if I would dare having it all out at once, certainly not with anyone else watching!! It was bad enough sorting out the sitting room stash when we moved the furniture round earlier this year. I also have wool in the kitchen and bedroom...then LOADS in the loft...really must go and root it out some day, if ony to see what I have!!

Off to get some cross-stitch done tonight, was knitting (another sea-foam scarf) while watching a bit of the Grand Prix this afternoon, so now want to stitch tonight. Will be sewing tomorrow...it's all go!!!

OrkneyStar

Keiss_21 wrote: »

Ooh, Orkney, is that from a baby pattern book of eons ago (Patons I think)??

the pattern is a Peter Gregory pamphlet, but I have seen similar patterns. It is a traditional old style raglan. Also doing a garter stitch jacket, which might go to same person.

lynseydee

I want to knit a cardi for my niece for Christmas. She will be 3 this November. The yarn I want to use is 4 ply and the tension is 28 sts x 36 rows. I've looked on ravelry for free patterns but not a lot is coming up. Does anyone else know where else I could look?

cuddles123

Well I have knit my first top down one piece raglan :j
Wasn't too hard at all.

Have the worst bit still left to do though - need to get the dreaded DPNs out to do the sleeves :eek:

NannyJanny

As for declaring all my stash...not sure if I would dare having it all out at once, certainly not with anyone else watching!!

I have quite a wee stash too :o:o:o. There will be a use for it all, even if not in my lifetime lol!

Wouldn`t know where to start I`ve got so much I could stock a shop.

After a break of a lot of years (work and all that) I only got back to knitting seriously 17 months ago. My stash is getting scary. I haven't even entered it on Ravelry. The trouble is OH totally embraces my knitting habit, seeing how occupied/happy/creative it makes me. He naturally gravitates towards wool shops if there is one on our route, presuming I will go in. Having been to Cornwall for the weekend I have now expanded my stash by Wendy Sorrento (45% acrylic/55% cotton) in the colours to do GD's Buzz Lightyear sweater. and 4 x 100 gm balls King Cole Mirage in the green mix, just because it was saying scarf/shawl/wrap for the winter as it sat on the shelf. No hope is there. Alternative Polperro is the best wool shop ever!