The Knitters Thread

nursemaggie

Yes kittie when you know what you are doing. I think it is well over a week since I started on my gloves. I got as far as the fingers and kept pulling it back and pulling it back.

Nothing adds up had to keep adding extra stitches as there were only enough for three fingers. I must have read it a hundred times. It was so wordy instead of being in what my father used to call knitting code(he had to read my mums patters to her when she went blind).

I thought I had better try it on. It was massive could have got both hands in and that was without any fingers. So now to decide, do I spend all day rewriting the pattern smaller and more understandably, do I go to the wool shop tomorrow they are closed today or do I look on line and not be able to print it? It all sounds too much work.

I had not done any knitting on DPNs since I was in my early teens. I knitted my first pair of gloves when I was 6. After that I made dozens of them and got fed up with them. I had not knitted on DPNs since I was about 12.

The gloves were nice and tight no gaps or big stitches so I did think I could knit lots of gloves for Christmas next year especially for DD and family as they are moving to Romania next September. DD did 5 years in Morocco, her husband I think did 3 years, three years in Venezuela, 4 years in Libya and 4 years in Saudi Arabia. They bought a flat in Malta. They were going to settle there. After all that time in deserts they have all developed an allergy to something in the sand and it is there in Malta too. SiL is working at Malta University so they don't really want to move. I think they may need two or three pairs of gloves each in Romania.

So annoying about the pattern it was nice with the cables on the back of the hand. I need a family pattern with sizes from about age 12 for me up to mens sizes.

You could always use some of your stash and knit cushion covers kittie. Ive seen pattern online from cotton ones made to look like liquorice all sorts to Aran patterned ones. I guess you have to line them though.

mardatha

It's blowing a gale here and flurries of snow, forecast heavy snow later, so I'm still happily in knitting mode. I love doing gloves too maggie but only use one ancient printed pattern. I find an awful lot of the patts on Rav are badly written or don't make sense to me. Right now I'm doing 2 socks, one fuchsia & dark rose (aka double strands both PINK lol) ... and the other one is turquoise and purple. Again two strands of 4ply together. I like knitting 4ply but my daughter is too heavy handed and footed, and just pokes her toenails right though fine socks :mad:

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nursemaggie wrote: »

You could always use some of your stash and knit cushion covers kittie. Ive seen pattern online from cotton ones made to look like liquorice all sorts to Aran patterned ones. I guess you have to line them though.

I have pushed the cushion idea away, would only be making extra work

Gloves, I made these two years ago in wool

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ringwood-gloves
They were too big and the wind came through, so I machine felted as I had nothing to lose. They turned out fab, a good snug fit and windproof

I haven`t done any knitting yet today. I did quickly sew up a roll for my dpns, this time with vertical slots, two, one higher than the other, for each size and getting wider and wider. I went from size 2mm to 7.5mm and have now homed almost all my dpns, mostly in the two lengths. They are not quite all in there as I have a set of tiny dpns and a metal set in a case but no more hunting when I need some. All the sizes are written in marker pen

Just had lunch and am about to settle into knitting in my recliner

Robson65

Hello Kittie,

I wasn't impressed either. I now use Wool Warehouse and have found them to be brilliant.

They have a Facebook page but I don't look very often because it makes me buy !

They do show knitters finished items and WIP's though.

Robson

plumduff55

I've escaped from the sewing room to have my lunch :rotfl:. Completed all the drawers which are now nice and organised although the room is knee deep in material that will be going to CS if I can't find storage space. I've even found some white crepe that I used to make my wedding dress in 1977. I should have binned that as I've been divorced since 1991 !!!!

It is really windy here and keeps getting very dark as if it's going to snow then it brightens again. I'm in central Scotland and we are a bit more sheltered than those further up and further down.

I'm away to tackle the rest of that room xx

plumduff55

Good morning everyone, I finished decluttering and organising my sewing room at 6 last night - that took about 7 hours but what a difference. I sew quilted and memory cushions and had 8 cushions piled high on top of the wardrobe - these are all now crammed down the gap between wardrobe and wall and are now invisible !!! I have a bag to go to the CS and also binned some scraps. I just hope that in the future I'm not hunting for something that I've "Kon Marie'd" :rotfl:

It is snowing here this morning and there is about an inch lying- looks lovely. This morning is housework morning, then I'll go for a walk in the snow before my knitting class begins at 2pm. I love retirement.

Happy knitting xx

mardatha

I'm up in the Borders hills plumduff and we got a couple inches of snow too this morning. Starting to freeze into ice now.
I haven't ever seen the Wool Warehouse, I've always had great service from Loveknitting but I'm anybody's if the price is right
I'd love somewhere to go and knit, like a knitters circle. It can get tedious being stuck in the house all the time and I can go weeks in winter - literally - without talking to a neighbour.

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oooh, wool warehouse looks good
http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/

me too mar, I am knitting day after day and am lucky if I see the postman

spirit

mardatha wrote: »

I'm up in the Borders hills plumduff and we got a couple inches of snow too this morning. Starting to freeze into ice now.
I haven't ever seen the Wool Warehouse, I've always had great service from Loveknitting but I'm anybody's if the price is right
I'd love somewhere to go and knit, like a knitters circle. It can get tedious being stuck in the house all the time and I can go weeks in winter - literally - without talking to a neighbour.

No snow here (West Yorkshire) at the moment. Just posted off a blanket for my daughter's chiahuahua.


Moving house soon so packing up my stash


I've had really good service from loveknitting, but have also used woolwarehouse. I have found the LK site a bit cheaper.

plumduff55

mardatha wrote: »

I'm up in the Borders hills plumduff and we got a couple inches of snow too this morning. Starting to freeze into ice now.
I haven't ever seen the Wool Warehouse, I've always had great service from Loveknitting but I'm anybody's if the price is right
I'd love somewhere to go and knit, like a knitters circle. It can get tedious being stuck in the house all the time and I can go weeks in winter - literally - without talking to a neighbour.

Our knitting group is in the local library. When I retired I went in to see if there were any groups I could go to. Before I knew it the librarian had talked me into starting a knitting group. It is great, there are 6 regulars and we have a great chat and our librarian brings us all a hot chocolate every week. It is heavy snow here now and I'm going to get my hillwalking boots on and go for walk to the adjoining country park before the class. I love the snow when I don't have to drive in it 🌦❄️☃️🌨 xx