The Knitters Thread

knittingnelly

tooties wrote: »

hi fellow knitters,
not been around these parts for a few months or so due to life circumstances etc, one of my DIL'S has asked me to knit her a pair of fluffy socks, i have looked around for suitable yarn but i am not making any progress so i am wondering if any one has any ideas about what would constitute fluffy yarn?
thanks
tooties

Nice to wear but they'd be a bu&&er to knit I suspect :rotfl:

Mrs_Money

Hi all
I've knitted a few simple items by making up my own patterns- throws, neckwarmers, scarves etc., now I've come up with an idea for something a little more complex and am going to start to knit it as a try-out.
Does anyone here design their own patterns and if you do, do you sell them?
Is there a copywright issue- I mean to say, do you copyright them in any way? I know that of course, once you've sold a pdf pattern anyone can pass it around to their friends - but I'd like to know what you all do and if it works for you?
Thanks in advance.

PepPop

Mrs_Money wrote: »

Hi all
I've knitted a few simple items by making up my own patterns- throws, neckwarmers, scarves etc., now I've come up with an idea for something a little more complex and am going to start to knit it as a try-out.
Does anyone here design their own patterns and if you do, do you sell them?
Is there a copywright issue- I mean to say, do you copyright them in any way? I know that of course, once you've sold a pdf pattern anyone can pass it around to their friends - but I'd like to know what you all do and if it works for you?
Thanks in advance.

Check out this link. I use this for my craft stuff. HTH

LadyDee

Looking for the answer to something on the net, I have just stumbled across this site - this lady could make an expert knitter out of the most ham-fisted of us (me included!). This is a link to her blog - do check it out.

http://techknitter.blogspot.com/2010/04/revised-unified-index-for.html

I do hope the link works!

Mrs_Money

PepPop wrote: »

Check out this link. I use this for my craft stuff. HTH

Thanks. Looks good and I will read and digest- but is it for American copyright laws only- or doesn't it matter?

PepPop

Mrs_Money wrote: »

Thanks. Looks good and I will read and digest- but is it for American copyright laws only- or doesn't it matter?

TBH I never thought of that, but I know a lot of bloggers use it in the UK so I wouldn't think it would matter. They basically send you an email that you have to keep and that registers the item as your own work with a date of when it's published. I think it would work here as a legal record.

oldtractor

I'd like to start knitting again. I stopped knitting years ago when it became cheaper to buy pullovers. Can anyone point me in the direction of cheap wool suppliers?

Mikazaru

I've just started knitting and am hoping someone here will be able to help with a quick, possibly silly, pattern question...

I'm just starting my first (possibly slightly too ambitious) knitting project and there's a part in the pattern about placing markers at the end of a few rows. I don't have any stich markers so can I just use a loop of wool through a stich and then cut it out when I come to making it up, would that work?

Thanks for any help

cuddles123

Mikazaru wrote: »

I've just started knitting and am hoping someone here will be able to help with a quick, possibly silly, pattern question...

I'm just starting my first (possibly slightly too ambitious) knitting project and there's a part in the pattern about placing markers at the end of a few rows. I don't have any stich markers so can I just use a loop of wool through a stich and then cut it out when I come to making it up, would that work?

Thanks for any help

Just make a loop of wool and slip it over the needle. You can then move it as you knit and won't have to cut it out.
Or you can use paperclips.

Good luck

Cheap yarn from

http://www.kempswoolshop.com/

Mikazaru

Thank you, I will try that, as for the luck, thank you I'll certainly need it!