What are you knitting at the moment?

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They're not colours that you do though, as such- all you have to do is to swap ends from a single ball of Kureyon every 6 rows, there's no fairisle or intarsia. Or do you mean you don't like colour?

Yeah, basically. I don't like multicoloured things. I like texture. I am trying out lots of new textures for the squares (latest: daisy stitch - very nice), and really enjoying that.

Tamum - nope, just got bored of being willandsamsmum and had a change. Don't know why i picked zisforzebra though - too many alphabet cards with DS' obviously

i do like the lizard ridge

will consider, at least a lizard ridge SOMETHING

am at a low ebb really knitting wise. A lot of it is that I don't have nice needles in the sizes i need (nice, ie brittany and above needles are stupidly important to me). And my tension is thusly off because of course I then just use what I have avalible. And then i get sad and frog it. I haven't fininshed anything for ages.

Also most of my yarn is albatros yarn from when my JL equivalent shut and i don't like it. or its leftovers from my projects, or other peoples projects.

I know what i need to do, i need to find a nice, small project, buy the wool, buy the correct needles (not hard-I am reliably .5 mm looser than reccomended gauge) and just knit it and thusly get my groove back.

yes that is what I must do.

I am fed up with making do and mending on the knitting front, its dispiriting.

not knitting at the moment but I do crochet. despite the fact that it's boring filly !!!
i've got 2 boo dolls on the go. and a scarf. and 2 hats. think that's all...

oh am just jealous pm

I want to learn to crochet but CAN'T learn from written down things, i need someone to teach me

might put an ad in the paper...

my mom taught me. and i can't follow patterns. so everything i make is an experiment!

Filly, I taught myself to crochet from a rather dated booklet I'm borrowing from my grandmother. It's very good. Would you like to borrow it? I can pop it into the parcel (which I intend to pack today) if yer like.

Oh, confession is good for the soul.
I am currently doing
an annoying mini Mn blanket for dd and her posse of bebbies because she keeps stealing the pink squares to wrap the smaller ones in
a Sunday Brunch matinee jacket from the Sublime booklet for my dsis' baby, due in August (so the little blighter might get the thing by Xmas)
a rather lurid pink and lilac speckly cardigan as requested by dd
a variegated slouchy skateboarder sweater for ds from Debbie Bliss' book

Will also be starting a Debbie Abrahams squares blanket for my unborn niece/nephew soon

i am knitting my non smoking scarf.

i knit when i give up smoking.

its really rubbish - but i love it.

one day i will get a picture and you craftaholics will congratulate me on the stupidest looking thing you ever saw

( will also need help casting off at some point as i haven't a fking clue)

I'm completing a pink cardy (of course) for DD - on first sleeve now. Can I confess here that I have only ever sewn up one sweater before despite knitting several? Teaching myself to knit tubes in the round - with the aim of completing a pair of gloves, somewhat late for the season now. Have wool to do baby bonnets from Last Minute Gifts for impending arrival of nieces in June. Languishing in the bottom of the bag is a lacey scarf which needs to be ripped back and started again

PMD, there are some adorable crocheted creatures on the web here which I would love to make if only I could advance my crochet skills to the level required! Filly you need to go and buy some ridiculously lovely wool - can you get to Loop again?

Fillyjonk, there are free crochet videos here , if that would work for you?

Alternatively, I know one of our local knitting groups has some expert crochet people in it, too. Do you have any local knitting groups? I bet the people on UKHK would know ...

i have this unnatural confidence in my crocheting abilities. I laugh in the face of patterns! HA! i can only do a few stiches and i make the rest up! so it really is silly that i look at things and think 'i could make that!'

check out my first boo creation in my profile pics.

oooh tick that wouold be lovely, i can memorise the booklet and send it back, ohhhhh yes

and don't forget to send me a bill

that sodding sock book is still vanished

there is a lcoal knitting group but they are scarily extrovert, i might try them though

Surely you want a knitting group to be extroverted? I mean, one where everyone skulks in their corners and refuses to talk to each other would be a bit pointless?

Of course I know exactly where it is and can put my hands straight on it.

no this is extoverted in a hockey playing type way

boom-y

They play ice hockey? I know girls who play ice hockey back home, I didn't think there were any English girls hard enough for that ... oh, a friend of mine back home was dating an English girl rugby player, though ...

I would guess loud jolly hockey sticks hockey rather than ice hockey! Good point about the idea of introverted groups though.

Filly, did you ever look at those Pavi needles? I am addicted to them, they are so slidey and pointy. Brilliant for Lizard Ridge because of picking up stitches after the short row shaping.

Marina, that's so nice that you are openly knitting for your sister's baby now

Some day British people will tell when I am being intentionally obtuse.

Then again, at least I can have fun with it.

oooh yes they were lovely tamum

I am disciplining myself to use what I have atm though. and am feckin fed up of it. hmm.

ok am going to make some nauties using barbara walker stitch patterns

(you are all familiar with a nautie i assume)

and btw in my defense-I am not especially introverted (though nowt wrong with that IMO) but this group meets in a shop that turned one of our number away, possibly on the grounds that she was a bit scruffy.

so.

I am trying to upload a picture of my blanket.

It's driving me mad. Think the file must be too big...

Ok, the shop bit I can see. Did they say why they were turning her away at the time? How odd.