The Knitters Thread

whatatwit

Landgirl, is that the knittingdaily patchwork wrap? :eek:

Ches

whatatwit wrote: »

Ches, have you tried googling for the patterns? or ebay?

No I haven't tried either but thanks for the suggestion I will have a look.

Hev...I have the book you mention and all the dolls which my mum knitted from the patterns in it. But its not dolls I wanted its the dolls clothes patterns printed in the Womans Weekly (pink top) magazine in the 50's. They were to fit smallish baby boy and girl dolls (I think about 12") which you could also order from them.

Luca-Chatzzi

Hi there,

This is my first post on the knitting forum, thrilled to see there is one.

It made me smile reading the post about finding the knitting treasure in the attic.

Usually I keep my knitting gear in the attic during the summer in a plastic drawer tower ,and then bring the whole lot down for the winter months...this year I think I will keep it down for all seasons as I plan to use up my stash knitting pretty but economical pressies for Christmas 2008.

The problem is though that my stash has outgrown the drawer tower as I found too many bargain balls of yarn this Winter...I have been living with bags of wool dotted around the house but have come up with a solution...this may have been posted here before so forgive me if so ( haven't got around to reading the entire thread yet ). I thought I would make a cheap and cheerful unit akin to how they store the wool in the shops. All you'd need is some masking tape and some uniform sized boxes....tape the boxes together on their sides in a tower with the open side facing you...then you can see all of your stash at one go and not have to empty it out all over the floor when looking for a certain colour or whatever. I guess if you really wanted to you could paint the outside or wallpaper it....either way it will be tidier than my present situation where all the bags take alot of floor space...this way it uses a much smaller footprint and is cheaper and greener than buying another plastic tower

HTH somebody with any creeping stash problems LOL

Look forward to reading the rest of the threads.

BW Luca

Luca-Chatzzi

I had a thought about what to do with the patterns and magazines and decluttering...if you have the equipment, could you scan the patterns and save them to disk...or whatever the correct computer speak is LOL. Then you get to keep the patterns but free up some real space too.

HTH

BW Luca

landgirl100

whatatwit wrote: »

Landgirl, is that the knittingdaily patchwork wrap?

Yes whatatwit - I know you want to make it too. I'm using Patons Misty and although the colours are very different, I'm really pleased with it so far. I'm up to Block 22! I sold a couple of books on Amazon last week and blew the lot on the wool!
Luca-Chatzzi, good idea - I will scan some of the patterns, but I hate to throw the magazines away! I've now found folders of Knit and Stitch magazine and Hand Knitting News as well, and Golden Hands in 5 volumes (I bought those second-hand years ago). I've not even started on looking at the yarn stash yet. Hopefully I packed it all away safely!

whatatwit

Well done landgirl, are you finding the squares easy to do?

Hi Luca, great idea for storage.

soba

Many years ago when my friend's son was about 5 I knit him a cable cardi. It was absolutely lovely and I know he wore it a lot. Many many years later (about 15!) when I had my son, my friend presented me with a package - it was the cardi I had knitted for her lad. She'd kept it all those years just incase I had any kids!! DS has recently been going to school in it, cos it's the same colour as his uniform.

Olliebeak

frisco wrote: »

thanks i'll need it! no a really deep collar more like a n old fashioned 50s cardi kinda like a shawl collar i'm just glad i did'nt have to knit the whole thing, son is 6ft 6in

I did a sort of similar collar on aran jumpers for my son when he was small.

It was done by making the neck of the front of the jumper in a square shape - but slightly deeper than a square (if you see what I mean). Then the jumper was sewn up as normal.

Next step was, starting with the righthand side of the neck pick up stitches up the side of the neck, along the back and back down the lefthand side of the neck. By this stage the stitches are beginning to feel a bit 'tight' on the needles - but it gets better as you knit more rows.

Then doing a knit one/purl one rib, do enough rows for the side of your work to fit across the front of the squared neckline. Looks a little peculiar but bear with it.

Turn work inside out, and stitch the two side of your ribbing across the front of the jumper. It should now look as though it folds to a point above the back of the neck. When you turn the work back to the right side, fold the back of the neck down again, and the front forms into the 'shawl-style collar'.

I found this to be a great alternative for a 'polo neck' - for a toddler especially. It gives the nigh neck collar feel but with lots of flexibility for getting over their head - just looks very peculiar when you first see it finished.

I think the pattern I originally had was in a pattern book - sure I still have it 'somewhere' - but that would be quite another story !

whatatwit

WooHoo, my ravelry invite has arrived...oh my there are so many ideas...not yet sussed it out properly, but I'm sure I will.

landgirl100

Anybody fancy knitting this? It's the most weird and wonderful knitting I've seen for a long time!