Knit, Crochet and Natter into 2021

[lazylinguist]

A thread for chat about woolly crafts. All welcome, including complete beginners.

Previous thread here

[lazylinguist]

Welcome Gliblet! Lovely stripy shawl!
I just had some lovely compliments on my jumper on the (fiendishly difficult) family Zoom quiz. I haven't managed to knit a single stitch today, and won't now, as I may have started on the NYE booze.

Our 2hr walk was lovely - icy with the beginnings of a pinkish sunset and low-lying pale mist over the estuary, which was completely white with a thin layer of crusty ice.

[lazylinguist]

Happy New Year, knitters and crocheters! May your 2021 be full of squishy yarn and successfully completed projects.

[FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack]

Happy New Year everyone!

I have 3 outstanding WIP's to finish this year. I will do it, I will

[NiceCardigan]

Happy Woolly New Year to everyone!

[lazylinguist]

That's the spirit, Flavia!
My NY resolutions are, as always, food and exercise-related, but I am going to make a shiny new page in my Bullet Journal with knitting and crochet projects I fancy doing - many of them inspired by this thread!

[lazylinguist]

Oh and high on the list will be the Neville Longbottom cardigan which bruffin posted on the first thread.

[Gliblet]

Happy new year all! I've reached the point in the shawl pattern (Reyna - free on Ravelry) where the rows get ridiculously long so I've also cast on a Zickzack scarf to have something to do when I'm feeling like the shawl will never end.

I'm off out to re-start couch to 5k and later, when I've stopped wheezing and swearing and I've had a shower, I shall add a few rows while waiting for my legs to recover

[Midnightstar76]

Happy New Year fellow crafters!! One of my New year’s resolutions will be to finish something.

[lazylinguist]

I'm off out to re-start couch to 5k and later, when I've stopped wheezing and swearing and I've had a shower, I shall add a few rows while waiting for my legs to recover.

Oh good for you, Gliblet! I had reluctantly given up running due to endless niggly little foot and knee issues, but I'm going to have one last go at building it up reeaallly slowly before I decide whether to quit for good. I too was a wheezing and swearing couch to 5k-er (about 12 years ago). Astonished myself by learning to love it and eventually got to half marathon distances. I've missed it, but it's not worth destroying my joints!

[lazylinguist]

Not running today though - it's super icy here, I'd break my neck.

[inquietant]

One of my children can do steeking but I still don't understand it even after watching!

Please can I join in? My crochet resolution for 2021 is to do a good hat, every hat I have ever done has been rubbish.

I am also doing wet felting with the youngest, we have improved the quality of felt, I never know what to make with it though!

[lazylinguist]

Welcome inquietant! I've never done felting. Is it difficult?

[DrDolittlesParrot]

Lovely scarf @Gliblet
I've just knit one for my mum, but ran out of wool, so it wasn't quite big enough. She loves it though. I'm now knitting a bigger one, when I get fed up of the super long rows I knit fingerless gloves for dc. Soon they'll have enough to open a shop though, not sure what I'll knit then

[tizwozliz]

Happy New Year everyone

I'm busy researching non amigurumi projects for the New Year in advance of placing a yarn order.

I'd really like to make a crochet infinity scarf, some placemats and some hanging pod storage things this year.

[Gliblet]

@DrDolittlesParrot wow, that looks so neat! Did you have any trouble keeping the middle straight? I think I've got the hang of it now but I had to unravel the whole thing because I'd not only dropped a couple of stitches in the mesh sections, I'd also gone wandering off to the left

[DrDolittlesParrot]

Thanks @Gliblet. I managed ok actually, think I unpicked half a row once because I'd lost the middle, but generally could tell by the increases the time before. The pattern said use markers but I didn't have any, I've ordered some now, so will see if it's easier with them.

[CrochetBug]

@lucysmam there's no 'should' with the Among Us hats they all wear what the player chooses. (My son always plays as blue but wears the beanie) The balloon hat wouldn't be so easy because it needs to 'float' somehow. I haven't seen a pattern for it, but I guess it must be possible.

@inquietant try thus website for a hat. They are really quick and easy.

Happy new year everyone

[inquietant]

No @lazylinguist felting is really simple, I just find getting the colours balanced hard. I can make a piece in about 20-30 minutes I guess? It is quite relaxing as you have to roll it a lot so it is quite tactile.

Thanks for the hat patterns @CrochetBug, will look.

[inquietant]

Tactile is the wrong word... I mean the movement required to make it is relaxing.

[lucysmam]

Happy new year all!

@CrochetBug I've found a youtube tutorial where the maker uses what looks to be jewellery wire to make the hat float - I've been spring cleaning all day so will go back and watch it properly either later on or tomorrow. Hopefully no-one will need me for much tomorrow & I can get another colour done.

I'm hoping one of the girls takes the hint & gets me some of the cheap wool I've seen in one of the pound shops in town, for my birthday, to practise a virus shawl before I attempt a blanket for dd2. I want to tackle a bigger project!

[CrochetBug]

I did wonder if using jewellery wire would work! But testing it would involve opening the understairs cupboard of doom.
No not the yarn cupboard, the other understair one which is full of all my other craft materials

[tizwozliz]

Just remembered one of my other aims for the year - a temperature blanket or scarf. I got a weather station for Christmas so can easily gather my readings everyday. I just need to decide on what pattern I'm going to use. I'm thinking I'll do a weekly average and 2 rows per week.

[lazylinguist]

I like the sound of the felting, inquietant! There's a pattern for some chunky felted bracelets in my Kate Davies book - I might have a go at one of those.

[CrochetBug]

DS did felting on a school trip once. I went as a parent helper but wasn't allowed to do one :(
It looked like so much fun. Dare I start another new hobby

[lucysmam]

Crochetbug it looked to have the end shaped like a hook, so it sort of slides back into the character,

I cba to get out the box the wire's in now so that's definitely a tomorrow job. I'm going to make blue's backpack and helmet instead (quite envious if your craft cupboard - my stuff's all stashed in boxes scattered round the house)