More knitting chat ...

[NotQuiteCockney]

Ok, new pictures, photobucket.com/albums/c176/NotQuiteCockney/?sc=6 . I like both new hats, although the photos are rubbish. (Am I not holding the camera still?)

Not sure what to do next, am slightly uninspired. Thinking about tubular knitting? DH has a colleague whose wife is having a baby, so I should do one for them ...

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tamum, you are so right about Clara...just had a peek.

i've just started making a lovely kidsilk haze scarf i got with my recent rowan subscription..looks a tad spidery atm...

I just signed up for a sub of Simply Knitting. I blame tamum, and the latest issue of Knitting itself, which plumbed new lows in car-crash knitting patterns you'd have to be insane to use

Finished your socks then have you bundy?
I am putting the final touches to a deep sea-green Dexter hoodie for DS (from Pipsqueaks, a wonderful Rowan book) and though I say it myself, it does look gorgeous.
Apart from the pleasure of making and sending the present, I feel I owe Droile a big thanks for giving me the opportunity to hone my casting on and making up skills. I have finished three languishing projects off properly since that mad stitchathon chez NQC. Who must be airborne by now, Godspeed and not too much family angst awaiting her over in Guadalajara

finished? wot's that?

i have lost the book (lovely erika knight one) somewhere in the flat..must try and look for it a bit harder)

and re-discovered cardi (pink/purple rowan wool cotton) i was knitting for dd1 but of course now will be for dd2.

do you think it would be ok to do the edging for the kidsilk scarf in crochet (I know, shameless crossover knit/crochet tart) as I hate picking up stitches from edges of things..esp when using double thicknesses of yarns...

oh and found some lovely mossy green rowan dk cotton which with the 4 pinks i have will make a lovely zip up cardi for dd1, esp if i can find the right funky pink zip.

Oh you crochet slapper, I would think so!
Hope Pipsqueaks turns up. Leafed through those little Louisa Harding books today looking for an All-Seasons Cotton use-up project for dd, and thought again how boxy and uninspiring those designs are
So am going to do her a nice butch Dexter hoodie as well.
And then I need to look sharp and do her Jaeger fair isle cardy because it doesn't go any bigger than 2-3
Did you see John Lewis wool sales are up 60% on this time last year? Might encourage them to reinstate some of the floor space they have consigned to Y fronts and grand-dad "fashion" in W1...

I'm trying to encourage reporter friend to do piece on how crochet has been neglected...but becoming trendier, esp now they have their own crochet n bitch book, iykwim. i have a few patterns with all seasons..in fact i have yarn leftover begging for a nice pattern but agree most of them are uninspiring. thought a lot of rowan 39 was a bit bonkers...

Is that the woman with the armchair on her head one? Agreed.

and a lot of what can only be called pelmets on the bottom of things..in different 'kin yarns, ffs.

It's such a flattering look on everyone, not. If you put a cake-frill of angora round my middle I think the men in white coats would be round soon after...

the models are so adorned it was frankly disappointing to see that only the armband was the thing in one photo that you could knit..
off to JL for a quick fix of something (hopefully cheap)xxx

You've probably left but the readicut sale brochure has some aran tweed yarn that I am after...

I haven't bought the new Rowan, or the last one. My only (admittedly pathetic) rule is that I have to find at least one pattern that I actively want to knit, or two for Rowan mags because they're so expensive. I have actually distinguished myself by starting my second pattern from the latest Interweave Knits (it's the Pearl Buck Swing Jacket ). I haven't quite finished the first pattern from there, but nearly.

I can't believe I'm getting the blame for your Simply Knitting sub Marina The green hoodie sounds lovely, and so does the scarf (which I'm sure would look really nice with a crochet edge). A.N. Other MNer just showed me some gorgeous Debbie Bliss dark green Cashmerino Astrakhan (?)- really beautiful. I am going to JL tomorrow in search of fabulous ribbons as I'm still determined to make a Monsoon-y beribboned cardigan for dd....

Love the jacket tamum, what a gorgeous pattern. When and if I ever get a waist back I would love to try one of the Hanne Falkenburg kits.
I ordered some yummy birch pins from Kangaroo today as I don't think I can ever go back to metal needles after I was led astray on here...

I get the Rowan on sub as am an International Member (fgs).
International Grumbler more like. Bundle is so right about the ludicrous busyness of the fashion shoots - it's like Where's Wally, trying to locate a teeny snood in a welter of bunched fabrics, tassels, droopy tights etc

It's just all so over-designed, isn't it? Trying too hard. Some of the stuff in the last one you just couldn't imagine ever seeing anyone wearing, not just our age (hem hem).

(feeling like a drug dealer here....)

Stockist please tamum! I am becoming a serious knitting needle perv. Still hoping to trace those fabulous glass-bead ended ones featured in Knitting a while ago.

It is clumpy and fluffy IMO Fio. Well, the cotton dk is, especially compared to Rowan stuff.
Dh was whining about no jumpers for him so I did him a costing too and that shut him up. Gone are the days when homeknits were a sign of pauperhood eh...

Your wish is my command, Marina, only promise me you'll take a deep breath before you see the prices They are soooo worth it though, they just glide along, and so beautiful. I got a couple of pairs from the US a year or so ago, but you can get them from the fabulous Get Knitted now- Lantern Moon

The only Debbie Bliss yarn I've ever knitted with was Maya, which was lovely but now discontinued. I just bought some nice ribbon from JL so I am raring to go with a little jacket-y cardigan for dd....

but I am fed up of my cheapy Pony needles slithering out of my knitting and onto the rank floor of SE Trains' finest cattle trucks
Lucky dd, what a nice project for half-term

Are Lantern Moon needles much better than Brittany? I've just upgraded to those, but could easily swap again

OK, I got bitten. Marina you knew it would only be so long until my mother got me hooked. I am booked onto my first Rowan workshop in Holmfirth so have been honing my knitting 'skills', knitting DD a hat from the Little Badgers book and decorating it with a knitted corsage (for which I had to learn what K1 tbl meant).

I'm now knitting Steph a second hat, but using Debbie Bliss yarn instead of Rowan and it kind of gets a bit of fluff built up round the yarn as I knit, iyswim. And it doesn't seem to knit up as smoothly.

For those that care, I am using bamboo needles (lent by mum).

So Marina, now you know why I'm not on mumsnet so often - not just DD's op!

resistance is futile SueW! So glad you are unable to fend off your mum any longer.
I had several Debbie Bliss balls for Droile's blanket and every single one had a snarl/knot/broken end in it.
I don't know Brittany needles Lulabell but am all ears