The Knitters Thread

mardatha

I''m too far out to have anywhere to go without either getting on a bus (not poss as my health is just now) or hauling a very ratty husband along as chaffeur. My retirement didn't turn out as planned LOL but I'm still enjoying it!

janb5

plumduff55 wrote: »

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

How lovely of the librarian to bring you all hot chocolate- what a great lady!

plumduff55

mardatha wrote: »

I''m too far out to have anywhere to go without either getting on a bus (not poss as my health is just now) or hauling a very ratty husband along as chaffeur. My retirement didn't turn out as planned LOL but I'm still enjoying it!

Hi, I was kind of forced to retire at age 60 in October 2015. I'm using a good chunk of my pension lump sum to fund my retirement till my state pension kicks in when I turn 66. Much as I hate to see my bank balance going down each month there is absolutely no better way to spend that money than to go to bed each night knowing I don't have to get up for work the next morning. I love being retired especially while I still have my health and the energy to go gallivanting out and about.

Janb5, the librarian is lovely and we have become good friends and go walking on her lunch hour each Tuesday.

Only two of us at the knitting group today but not unexpected due to the heavy snow and icy roads. Happy knitting xx

janb5

plumduff55 wrote: »

. Much as I hate to see my bank balance going down each month there is absolutely no better way to spend that money than to go to bed each night knowing I don't have to get up for work the next morning. I love being retired especially while I still have my health and the energy to go gallivanting out and about.

I guess we are a similar age as I was born in 1954- a year apparently when sweet rationing came to an end.

I too love retirement and don`t understand people`s incredulity when they ask me what I do all day!

plumduff55

Janb5, It's amazing how time passes. I'm as busy if not busier than I used to be when I worked full time. But it's busy with things I love doing. I am so happy when I'm in my sewing room quilting and making things or watching the afternoon film and getting an extra bit of knitting done. I am so lucky xx

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I too, love being retired. The best thing for me was to have some sort of informal routine in my day, came in handy after my husband died as it was all too easy to drift and then I would go to bed tired but without the satisfaction of getting things done. That is why knitting is so wonderful, there is a good end product, one that I would call positive, not negative like routine housework and btw I see less and less dust these days

There are alone days, could say lonely but alone and lonely are different. I only have to think of all those people who have to squeeze into a working day. Then I settle happily into a craft and maybe a film or definitely the radio

I have to do my sums today as I have altered the length on afterlight and have to introduce the start of neck shaping. I am glad I used the row counter and kept notes but will read it through first and draw the lines, so I can see where I need to adjust before I start.

No sign of my refunds from loveknitting and glad I paid with paypal. If they don`t arrive next week then I will go down the dispute route. I have all the evidence I need for three separate refunds. They will have received the items three days ago. It is only when there is a problem that you can tell how good a company is, it is how they deal with it

plumduff55

Hi everyone, for anyone thinking of going to the SECC Glasgow Hobbycraft show at beginning of March - the tickets are available on
"Itison" for only £4 each and there is no booking fee although you do have to specify which day you're going. I've booked tickets for the Friday and this offer is available for a month.

There are also tickets costing £9.50 for the Knitting and Stitching show at Ingliston,Edinburgh last weekend in April. But I think these have to be booked in next 13 hours. I've also booked a ticket for this one.

If I am going to allow myself to buy some wool then, I'd better get busy diminishing my stash :rotfl: xx

mardatha

Are you going to the Edinburgh Yarn Festival thing in March plumduff? I fancied trying to get to that if I'm ok. Glasgow's too far for me though.

janb5

nursemaggie wrote: »

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.
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.

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Hi NurseMaggie- how did you get on- did you sort out the problem or find a new one? I haven`t made gloves but pretty sure I have a spare family pattern so if you want to, pm me and I`ll send it to you.

nursemaggie

Hi janb5 I got one on Saturday. It's got 4 sizes and three designs.

I have not started them yet. I kept putting off going because of the weather first the high winds and then the snow so I started a jumper for my DGS. I only manage without knitting when on holiday. Does not save me any money though, I usually read 4 or 5 books in two weeks. My Son in Law has the same taste in reading so I take paperbacks and leave them for him.

Malta is not a good place for buying books the local library where they live is not very good and of course the University where he works does not have much fiction in their library.

Thanks for the offer.