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NotQuiteCockney · 08/07/2006 19:40

I have started knitting again. I've finished two baby hats (one with a four-eyelet design, another with panels of a fern-looking lace) and am working on one with a simple all-over lace.

I figured lace made sense for this weather.

What is everyone else working on?

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marthamoo · 08/07/2006 19:43

Oooh a knitty person - I have asked a daft knitting question on another thread...

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/07/2006 19:44

Which thread? Link or bump! Tamum's the real expert, but I'll help if I can.

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Blondilocks · 08/07/2006 19:45

I'm currently doing a scarf. So far it's taken over a year to do a third of it (I think I'd do a more plain pattern next time, but maybe in different colours or something!)

To be honest I do a bit of the scarf & get bored as it's really repetitive (plus I have several cross stitches on the go at the same time!) This is my first make though, so wanted something simple & maybe one day I'll be able to make baby clothes

marthamoo · 08/07/2006 19:46

I'll link

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/07/2006 19:48

Found it, I'd checked on new knitting threads, but not seen yours as you posted at the same time as me!

It can be more interesting to do a more varied pattern. I'm always doing strange textures, to keep my interest up. My current hat has every other row plain, but the interesting rows never have more than 5ks in a row, and on one row, I have to wrap stitches, which I've not really done before (except on short rows projects).

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Littlefish · 08/07/2006 19:59

I should be knitting right now! I'm just doing the second front of a little dusky pink cardigan. I have loads of friends who are pregnant - one of them is bound to have a girl!

Also, just bought some lovely Rowan 4ply to knit a Debbie Bliss, Baby Cashmerino cardigan for my SIL who is due in October.

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/07/2006 20:41

Warning: 4ply takes forever. My albatross is 4ply, and I still have loads and loads of it.

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NotQuiteCockney · 13/07/2006 19:37

I've sewn in the ends on the two hats that were finished, and finished the third (but not sewn in ends). I think I might be getting my head around lace. I need to do three more hats pretty sharpish, and am thinking about doing one with a sort of spiral of fagotting. Or two spirals, that cross? Must do trial bits.

I might do a hat in something other than albatross yarn, too, as I do have bundles of other lovely yarn hanging about.

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warthog · 13/07/2006 20:45

sounds lovely nqc!

when i went looking for wool for the blanket i was going to crochet i got waylaid by some really lovely bluey / greeny wool. so am teaching myself how to knit with the wool in the left hand. i've knitted for 25 years with it in the right, so it feels like i'm learning from scratch. so my 'learning project' is a plain scarf for dd, followed by socks in a lovely bluey / purpley colour for dh. and i've found a pattern dh likes for a jersey, so that blanket will be on hold for a while. good thing too, don't know if i could deal with the repetitiveness of it all. there's only so far changing colours can go!

really pleased with the continental method so far. MUCH faster than my old way even though i'm still learning. what does everyone else use?

warthog · 13/07/2006 20:46

well, maybe not 25 continuous years...

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NotQuiteCockney · 13/07/2006 20:50

I knit continental-style (NB: German is a better thing to call it, as French people knit with yarn in the right hand. As do Belgians.). Most of the people on here knit English-style, with yarn in the right hand.

There's a lovely site with videos of people knitting, to help you learn, they do German demos, too. Should I dig up a link?

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NotQuiteCockney · 13/07/2006 21:30

Ah, never mind, I see you already posted a link to it yourself. It is a great site, isn't it.

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warthog · 13/07/2006 21:56

yes it is! thanks for clarifying - wasn't sure what to call it! but the stitches seem to be a lot neater / more even than english style. it amazes me that after all this time, there is still so much i don't know... do you ever feel like that?

baby cashmerino is lovely, although i bought some that had obviously been attacked by moths. every couple of rows i was having to cut the wool and retie. eventually i just gave up. bad luck i think.

housemum · 13/07/2006 22:06

Am currently working on a cute cardi for my dd age 3, bought the yarn & pattern at the Knitting & Stitching show, went there because I really like cross stitch, I knit occasionally. lovely yarn in shades of pink/dark pink - one of those variegated ones, from getknitted.com.

housemum · 13/07/2006 22:09

Got a bit lost looking for casting on links, but I found a great site last summer when I was doing a ballet cardigan and it said to use the thumb method of casting on - it may ne the one you've been talking about, but in case it's not, it's:

www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/basic_techniques/index.php

(Not sure how to put a link in)

housemum · 13/07/2006 22:11

durrrrr - just realised as I pressed post that it shows you how to put a link in - you can tell I'm new to this!

casting on methods

warthog · 13/07/2006 22:15

yes, housemum, that's the site i found too. it's really good isn't it? also tried the thumb method. was really easy.

what was the knitting and stiching show like?

Pruni · 13/07/2006 22:22

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tamum · 13/07/2006 22:28

I am doing a lacey/cabley cardigan from a Vogue magazine in Jaeger Trinity. I have just finished a tie-front bolero thing from a Debbie Bliss pattern but I need to block the pieces (boo) and then crochet a border (triple boo). My next plan is the hooded cable jacket from here (click on "view inside pages" if you are remotely interested ) and luckily I've been invited to a sale preview of my LYS next Monday, so should be able to pick up some stuff....

Pruni · 13/07/2006 22:30

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tamum · 13/07/2006 22:36

I shall ensnare you, just you wait.... (they are so, so easy compared with just about any fancy technique you care to mention, honest...)

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NotQuiteCockney · 13/07/2006 22:43

Yes, cables are very easy.

I'm finding lace not too bad, too. It just shows any error you make, like crazy. But then, as I can generally not tolerate errors, it's fine.

(Oh, I'm using those stitch markers, and finding them very useful, particularly for work with panels in it.)

Next hat will either be something spiraley, or something with a different sort of panel - there's a Barbara Walker texture that looks lovely, but the described pattern isn't set up right to be used as a panel, even though I think it'll make a great one. It's pretty hairy, though, so I think I have to chart it to take it apart and make it into a panel, iyswim ...

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NotQuiteCockney · 13/07/2006 22:45

Oh, and I've been making some local in person knitting mum friends, including a Belgian woman, who doesn't know any knitting terms in English, which is slightly tricky. And we sorta have a LYS now. Well, it's a LFS really, as it seems to only stock Finnish things. But there's yarn, anyway. Slightly random strange Finnish yarn, but still ... (Actually, am not sure yarn is finnish, but shop owner is, and much of stock is.)

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warthog · 13/07/2006 22:46

has anyone ever knitted something from a kit?

tamum · 13/07/2006 22:51

Good news about the local knitters NQC, and I'm glad the stitch markers have come in useful

wartnog, I haven't, no. I always, always want to change the colour or something. I was tempted by some of the Alice Starmore ones but you have to have a copy of her hideously expensive out of print books too Have you seen something that takes your fancy?