The Knitters Thread

OrkneyStar

cuddles123 wrote: »

Oops sorry - thought you meant to post a pic - didn't see the link

Yes - the yarn made my mouth water every time I knitted with it

Ah, was confused there lol! Nice socks.

archieboy

Looking for some advice please. Today I bought a 50gm ball of Jaeger Alpaca in my local charity shop. They only had the one ball unfortunately. Now I'm wondering what I can knit with this amount. I'm not even sure what ply it is but I think it looks thiner than DK.
Would I be able to get a pair of socks out of it? I've only made socks in DK and they used about 65gm for the pair. I don't think it would be enough for a scarf, would it?
I'm not a very experienced knitter so just have no idea so would welcome your advice. It's such lovely wool I'd like to put it to good use. Thanks,

Apollonia

archieboy wrote: »

Looking for some advice please. Today I bought a 50gm ball of Jaeger Alpaca in my local charity shop. They only had the one ball unfortunately. Now I'm wondering what I can knit with this amount. I'm not even sure what ply it is but I think it looks thiner than DK.
Would I be able to get a pair of socks out of it? I've only made socks in DK and they used about 65gm for the pair. I don't think it would be enough for a scarf, would it?
I'm not a very experienced knitter so just have no idea so would welcome your advice. It's such lovely wool I'd like to put it to good use. Thanks,

Jaeger made one yarn called 'Alpaca' which is 4ply and then there was one called 'Alpaca Double Knitting' so you probably have the 4 ply. The recommended needle size helps as DK is usually 4mm needles while 4ply uses smaller.

According to the yarn database on Ravelry a 50g ball is 183m so not enough for adult socks, maybe for a child. There are 132 projects using this yarn on Ravelry - lots of wristwarmers/fingerless gloves - maybe browse the pattern ideas and projects tabs here:

http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/jaeger-alpaca

Or do a pattern search specifying the length and type of yarn you have and see what you like there:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/search#photo=yes&craft=knitting&weight=fingering&meterage-in=0-150&page=2&view=captioned_thumbs&sort=popularity&fibertype=alpaca

dizzy_lizzie

Orkney your corgi is sooooooo cute. I'd be chuffed to bits if I'd knitted him :T
Cuddles one day I WILL try to knit a pair of socks. I keep saying I will everytime I buy a new pair. And I love it when I'm bought socks too.
Yep...I do love socks
x

dizzy_lizzie

archieboy wrote: »

Looking for some advice please. Today I bought a 50gm ball of Jaeger Alpaca in my local charity shop. They only had the one ball unfortunately. Now I'm wondering what I can knit with this amount. I'm not even sure what ply it is but I think it looks thiner than DK.
Would I be able to get a pair of socks out of it? I've only made socks in DK and they used about 65gm for the pair. I don't think it would be enough for a scarf, would it?
I'm not a very experienced knitter so just have no idea so would welcome your advice. It's such lovely wool I'd like to put it to good use. Thanks,

Hi archieboy. If you decide to knit some wristwarmers here's a really easy pattern I found a while ago. Fingerless mittens I hadn't knitted for donkeys years and wanted something easy to try. They knit up beautifully and you don't have to change colours if you don't want to. There is a pic I posted of them somewhere on here but it was a looooooong time ago
x

OrkneyStar

Just finished this:
Hardly took any time but was knitting it on and off in between Corgi's and other stuff lol!

OrkneyStar

Finished these two recently for Jubilee Celebrations:

Quiet here, hope everyone is well and been enjoying the sun when it was here.

mrs-moneypenny

your queen and corgi look brill OS

mummyyof5

Thanks for the mitts pattern dizzy lizzy...going to make these for 1 of my friends for X**s.

cuddles123

Those look great Orkney - will they be on display somewhere?