The Knitters Thread

Have you looked at the Marriners site - I'm not allowed to post links as I count as a new user, but just google it (it has 2 rrs in it)


They do cotton but I'm not sure if the sort you are after


I gave up on the stocking stitch jumper and bought a pattern with an interesting mini cable and lacy pattern at the neckline and have finished the front and back. What I didn't realise is that the pattern is all up both sleeves, and is quite badly written - so much so that I had to contact the people who produced the pattern to try and sort it out. They corrected one part of it, but that has just created another problem - I think I have worked it out now, but it requires quite a bit of concentration!

I finished crocheting 3 baskets for DD's desk and then used the rest of the wool on 8 little innocent smoothie hats. I've sent them off now. I quite enjoyed doing them but it seems like a lot of effort to generate 25p!! I've also crocheted 2 preemie baby hats and knitted a wooly hat for a sailor. I then found a load of bits of wool under my bed that I didn't know I had, plus some small balls from the fronts of knitting magazines, so I am creating granny squares out of it all - I can make one sat in bed each evening. Once I have enough I will create what, in my head, is a blanket of great beauty, but as I'm not very good with combining colours will probably be a mish mash of random squares!

I've been quite ill the past couple of weeks with a lot of breathlessness which has meant spending quite a bit of time having to sit down, which is how I've managed to get so much crafting done! House is a mess and meals are a bit random though!

What is everyone else working on?

2childmum2 wrote: »

Have you looked at the Marriners site - I'm not allowed to post links as I count as a new user, but just google it (it has 2 rrs in it)


They do cotton but I'm not sure if the sort you are after


I gave up on the stocking stitch jumper and bought a pattern with an interesting mini cable and lacy pattern at the neckline and have finished the front and back. What I didn't realise is that the pattern is all up both sleeves, and is quite badly written - so much so that I had to contact the people who produced the pattern to try and sort it out. They corrected one part of it, but that has just created another problem - I think I have worked it out now, but it requires quite a bit of concentration!

I finished crocheting 3 baskets for DD's desk and then used the rest of the wool on 8 little innocent smoothie hats. I've sent them off now. I quite enjoyed doing them but it seems like a lot of effort to generate 25p!! I've also crocheted 2 preemie baby hats and knitted a wooly hat for a sailor. I then found a load of bits of wool under my bed that I didn't know I had, plus some small balls from the fronts of knitting magazines, so I am creating granny squares out of it all - I can make one sat in bed each evening. Once I have enough I will create what, in my head, is a blanket of great beauty, but as I'm not very good with combining colours will probably be a mish mash of random squares!

I've been quite ill the past couple of weeks with a lot of breathlessness which has meant spending quite a bit of time having to sit down, which is how I've managed to get so much crafting done! House is a mess and meals are a bit random though!

What is everyone else working on?

Are you feeling better now? I hope so. If not, please go and see your GP.

What am I knitting? I've started the first sleeve of my Audrey in Unst cardigan and am a quarter of the way down the arm. (You pick up stitches at the armhole and knit down.) My plan is to make full-length sleeves, not the 3/4 ones per the pattern.

My handbag knitting project is a pair of (modified) Hedera socks, using leftover sock yarn purchased during my trip to New Zealand. (I bought 3x50g balls of a local New Zealand sock yarn.) I've already knitted one pair of socks from this yarn and am determined to use it all up. Here's a photo of the first pair:



That pair took 1.5 balls of yarn. Right now, I'm halfway through the foot of the first sock, having just finished the second ball of yarn, so hopefully will have enough to finish a full pair.

- Pip

I have been to the GP 3 times - the second time I was sent to A and E and spent the day in Resus with a suspected blood clot. Thankfully they didn't find anything, but I am coughing at getting breathless just walking up the stairs, and nothing seems to shift it. I just have to sit and knit/crochet!