The Knitters Thread

shona_2

Does anyone know where I'd get a chunky cream yarn - probably 'slub' I think it's called to knit this as seen below the hat and described - it should be an easy scarf, but I love how it looks.

I have looked on loads of sites, but am struggling to find plain cream... except as eg ordinary wendy chunky.

Can anyone help? The hat looks do-able too!

thanks

libra10

Reading this thread is spurring me on to get back into knitting.

Good luck

Pink_Fairy_2

Hi Jinny and anyone else interested

The puffball quilt is made from small circles of fabric with a draw thread round the edge to pull them into a little "flattened" puff. These are then stitched together with 4 - 5 stitches on 4 "sides", then the whole is stitched along the edges onto a backing fabric. It's just single sized (as I said, she'd made it for my Mum) but we have it on our King sized bed at the moment. and it fits from the foot to the pillows, so covers most fo our bodies. It's quite heavy. When Mum died, we also found a load of patches cut adn edged ready, so I will make a quilt in her memory.

I am trying so hard (with Flylady etc) to get back into the sort of routine I used to have, as I have not done much crafty stuff at all lately. I don't sew much, but like to knit, can do a little crochet (I made my daughter a beautiful dress when she was a baby) and I love cross stitching.

I love this website and all the forums. I don't go out much in the evenings due to son's health. I work full time so this is my "Socialising" and you're all lovely. It's like having friends in for a chat. If anyone does Facebook, I'm on there too. PM for my details.

Seakay

shona wrote: »

Does anyone know where I'd get a chunky cream yarn - probably 'slub' I think it's called to knit this as seen below the hat and described - it should be an easy scarf, but I love how it looks.

I have looked on loads of sites, but am struggling to find plain cream... except as eg ordinary wendy chunky.

Can anyone help? The hat looks do-able too!

thanks

Ivory cream knits on a 10mm needle (that is what US 15 is) but is a plain yarn
https://secure.theblack-sheep.co.uk/acatalog/Sirdar_Denim_Ultra_Mega_Chunky.html

ivory cream here
http://www.angelyarns.com/sirdar/knit.php/yarn/311
looks a bit more textured but I haven't yet found anyting as "lumpy" as that shown in your pattern

I Googled 10mm cream wool but only got through the first page before running out of time.

Pink_Fairy_2

Olliebeak wrote: »

I hold my work in my left hand; my hook in my right hand; and the yarn as if I'm knitting with my right hand. This way you are taking the yarn around the hook - instead of the 'proper way of hook around yarn'. I think that it works for me because I was knitting for a few years before starting to crochet and also because of a broken wrist as a child, I don't have a great deal of flexibility in my right wrist.

I always do it like that. I thought it was normal and I didn't break my wrist???:rotfl:

pcg2001

Hi, everyone,

went out and got myself needles (5.5 mm) from charity shop for 0.75£ and sets of 3/4 in Poundland. Also got a bege chenille yearn in Poundland and have just done a 10cmx10 cm square with a very loose knit... I'm really happy I learned again how to knit the basic. However:
- I remeber my needles having a small hook at the end when I was growing up... These ones don't.
- Maybe chenille was not the best to start. It said on the package the yarn is enough for a scarf so I thought it was value for money. However now I cannot see very well the pattern and it is all loose.
Any help on this, please? Which yarn is the best to start?

Pipkin, how is your book called? I've just ordered a book called Knitters' bible, since I saw it at WHSmith and it looked very pedagogical (which at this stage is what I am looking for), however I'm not sure it will have a lot of patterns.

Ianna

Guys what's the second and third row here telling me to do? I understand basic knitting and purling but I don't get the tog and s1 business.

pixiedust_2

Hey! Have seen this thread pop up a few times on the forums page, but haven't got round to having a look til now... Taught myself to crochet around October time, as something to keep me out of trouble in the evenings at uni (and no, it didn't work, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun ), and then picked up some knitting needles over the Christmas break. Am a bit of speed-knitter, in the 3 weeks since I found some needles, I've made a scarf and a handbag, not to mention the 2 crochet scarves I made before Christmas and the I-don't-wanna-know how many flowers I've made! But they are stuck all over the place now...

I'm currently working on squares of crochet *and* knit, which will, when I've finally got them finished, be made into a blanket... I'm on square number 3 at the moment, all crochet. About to start on the knit ones, which could take a lot longer, as these are all picture-type designs, and that's something I haven't done before... Also only realised today that all of the squares will be different sizes (from free patterns picked up on Ravelry), so will have to make some strips and bits to plug a few gaps I think! Will worry about that later though

Churchmouse

2nd row sl1 just means passing the stitch to the active needle without actually knitting it (slip it onto the right hand needle)

3rd row k 2 tog means pass the needle through the front loops of the next two stitches and knit them together as if they were one stitch. So the needle goes through the front loop of the second stitch first, then the first stitch. This is a way to decrease one stitch
k into front and back of next stitch means knit into the front loop of the stitch as normal but instead of letting the loop off the needle knit again into the back part of the loop and then let it slide off. This increases the stitch count by one to balance the earlier k 2 together.

http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/increases this site has some very useful videos. They call the k into the front and back increase a bar increase. It will show you much easier than I have explained:rotfl:

Hope this helps you;)

Olliebeak

pcg2001 wrote: »

Hi, everyone,

went out and got myself needles (5.5 mm) from charity shop for 0.75£ and sets of 3/4 in Poundland. Also got a bege chenille yearn in Poundland and have just done a 10cmx10 cm square with a very loose knit... I'm really happy I learned again how to knit the basic. However:
- I remeber my needles having a small hook at the end when I was growing up... These ones don't.
- Maybe chenille was not the best to start. It said on the package the yarn is enough for a scarf so I thought it was value for money. However now I cannot see very well the pattern and it is all loose.
Any help on this, please? Which yarn is the best to start?

Pipkin, how is your book called? I've just ordered a book called Knitters' bible, since I saw it at WHSmith and it looked very pedagogical (which at this stage is what I am looking for), however I'm not sure it will have a lot of patterns.

Not quite sure from your posting if you are wanting to get back into knitting or crochet, pcg. From your earlier postings, I gather that it's knitting.

Knitting needles don't have 'hooks' on the end of them but they do have a 'bobbly bump thing' on the other end. Crochet hooks obviously have a 'hook' bit - but are only a few inches long.


There was a craft that 'sort of got going in the early/mid 70's' that appeared to be a combination of the two - one of those darn 'K-tel' things, if I remember rightly! That consisted of a knitting needle with a hook on the end. It started off like a row of crochet, then you worked back along picking up every stitch to the other end of the row; then you worked back again taking each stitch off again. A bit like casting on and then casting off each row as you went. My mother had a go at it - but soon threw it away again. It was very difficult to do proper shaping for sleeves and necklines as everything appeared to be geared towards square shapes. May have been ok for dropped shoulders and slash necklines that became fashionable around that time!

Maybe this is what you remember from when you were younger .