The Knitters Thread

nursemaggie

Hope everyone is OK.

mardatha

I'm kicking myself for buying cotton that I hate. It looked lovely on the website, really delicate pale blue and pink... got it and its bright staring in-yer-face awful blue and sickly pink. I started knitting a hitchhiker with the blue, cutting it with stripes of pale blue-grey silk, but I still don't like it. I'm so desperate not to waste it that I'm thinking to try a teatowel with the damn stuff. At least it will be absorbent for the dishes
I fell in love with Katia yarns, they have some truly gorgeous cotton mixes and Katia Air Lux is stunning, but it seems to be hard to get here.

nursemaggie

Will be an expensive teatowel Mar. DS did comment that my scarves looked like teatowels. I can't think what the pattern was but I think I put it on here. Won't you still hate the colours when you dry the pots?

Next times I would send them straight back if you don't like the colours. I have only had the one lot of yarn from a website, still buying yarn from Age UK. It was Patons yarn and one ball had 15 knots in it. It did not wash very well either. It has put me off buying yarn on line.

I do vaguely remember I was not keen on Patons yarn when I was young. My dad wanted a fairisle sweater and we could not find a pattern he liked. I designed one for him.

I remember when I took him to choose the wool I told him, " You can have any wool you like except Patons." He chose an expensive yarn but it was worth it because it still looked new after 20 years.

mardatha

I got the cotton really cheap, it was this stuff -
http://www.purplesheepyarns.co.uk/love-you-6.html

purpleybat

mardatha wrote: »

I got the cotton really cheap, it was this stuff -
http://www.purplesheepyarns.co.uk/love-you-6.html

its 4ply? i prefer cotton stuff, it doesn't irritate my skin, maybe we could sort somehow that I buy it off you?

mardatha

It's DK, I put on the wrong link. It's this stuff PB:
http://www.purplesheepyarns.co.uk/cotlgt33.html
5 balls of Blue Bonnet and 5 balls of Light Pink. Would 5 balls of DK be enough to knit anything though?

nursemaggie

Now those do look nice colours sorry they turned out so horrible.

lovecrafting

hi all, i am currently knitting santa sacks for december, in my brain i thought yes, one each for the kids will work... uhuh i had forgotten just how long they will take, and i had planned matching stockings and bed blankets to match

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Nursemaggie hope your treatment is progressing OK, I have lymphodema which is a left over from my cancer treatment and found that if I don't knit then my right arm siezes up as its twice the size of my left one.

I knit blankets for The Linus Trust which donates them to children all over the world who have nothing often than the clothes on their backs. I have been doing it for the past 8 years and have lost count of the amount I have knitted over the years, but I like to think that somewhere on this planet a child goes to sleep a little warmer for one of my 'blankies' as my DGS used to call them I find wool from all sorts of sources, often handknitted stuff at a boot sale which I will unravel and wash and reknit up (very handy for plain white wool which I use for edging the blankets.)

I am always on the look out for inexpensive websites for DK wool and if anyone knows of any I would be grateful for a heads up. I have never seen wool in my local Aldi's or Lidl's but sometimes there is wool in Wilkos but for some reason never any yellow

My friend crochets for the same charity and any left over bits of balls I knit in stripes to use them up nothing is ever wasted

My grandchildren are now past the age for knitting things for and I am hoping I live long enough to have some gt.grandchildren then my needles will be clicking away again I did for awhile knit prem baby things for the local hospital in 3 and 4 ply as they were always looking for bits for the tiny little early babies.

I really enjoy knitting, as I like to be doing something useful when watching TV

Nice to see that there are other enthusiasts who like it as well

JackieO xx

nursemaggie

Welcome Jackie It looks like the others aren't around at the moment. This thread is always intermittent. There is more activity in Winter than Summer.

I managed to get some yellow last week. When I go to the hospital the Age UK shop near the hospital has yarn at £1.45 a ball. They don't have a lot as they have mostly stopped selling it. This branch must have a decent turnover to keep getting it. Perhaps it is because it is near the most famous Cancer hospital in the world. There are lots of people having to sit around all day while they have treatment.

They has two balls of Yellow last week. I need that colour for some Christmas things I will knit late this year. I think yellow is just not fashionable at the moment.

You could have a look at any Age UK shops you come across.