Knit, Crochet and Natter 6: Where there's a wool there's a way

[lazylinguist]

A thread for all woolly crafters, from total beginners to old hands! Previous thread here

Thanks @CrochetBug. Dsis and I were honestly so convinced it was something really sinister. Much more convinced than DM was, I think (she's a real technophobe and won't have anything to do with the internet so, unlike us, she hadn't been googling the hell out of her symptoms- a cautionary tale for us all there!). Hope you're getting on ok with your health issues too. Right... housework time for me .

Meant to include a pic of my Fairisle cuff so far...

And new WIP bag...

Ooh, nice lazy! Very pretty fairisle!

I'm working on a Pikachu that looks like a weeble at the moment for DS2 and a Among Us character for DS who thanks to this thread I was able to impress with my knowledge 😂

Oh no CrochetBug, nightmare!

Those are fabulous lazylinguist and Flavia. I'm approaching the foot of second sock so will try to post when it's done.

Sorry I've not read the whole thread so apologies if this has been mentioned - but I found a beautiful item on 'attic24 Christmas wreath' which is so colourful and an inspiration for idle hands if we ever suffer such things.

Glad to see your update about your mum lazy! You must all have been worried. Your jumper cuff looks good!

@CrochetBug I've managed to get appointment dates wrong in the past, hopefully you get another soon 🤞

@FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack dd2 would love weeble Pikachu 🥰

I'm 1/3 of the way through the LFC scarf, and really need to sew in some ends 😱 I'm hoping blocking will sort the slightly wonky edges (& maybe a sc border?)

Pikachu is very cute. Lame joke alert: How do you get Pikachu onto a bus? Poke 'im on . Ds used to love that joke (and Pokemon)!

lazy I will pinch that one for tea time dd1 is full of willy jokes lately 🙄 & doing my head in a bit with them!

My friend's struggling to find an easy, free, knitted jumper pattern to try for her boys. She's not been knitting long so just wants something simple to begin with. I don't suppose any of you could suggest something?

lazy dd1 laughed at your Pika joke

It always reminds me of this one: How do you annoy Lady Gaga? Poke 'er face.

She'll like that one too! It's her turn to brew soon...

lazy that’s great news about your mum. I love the fair isle cuff, so pretty.

lucysmam I’m glad DD liked Errol, it’s a lovely way to remember him.

flavia that’s a lovely little pikachu.

@prettyteapotsplease that is beautiful and I found her winter wreath too which is just gorgeous! I love the robin in it!

DS very much liked that joke lazy

You're all much less fussy than DS2 about Pikachu 😂 he had a nosey over my shoulder when I was browsing Instagram and spotted it in my feed, but when I handed it to him he clocked I'd left off the arms and legs so I had to add them

I have a test knit I should be working on but I'm dithering about which yarn to use and I started a lace yoke jumper last night instead. It's knit in the round and it's so addictive.

Right - I've just knitted the last row of the first sleeve. Time to tackle the applied icord bind-off...

you can do it!

Right... I've just re-read the applied icord instructions again. I understand all of it except the last bit. I'm hoping someone can help (wizard-in-chief Flavia?).

So you've done your icord, starting by casting on 2 stitches onto the rh needle with backward loop method, then knitting stitches, slipping stitches, passing them over etc. At the end, you end up with 2 live stitches on your right needle and need to close the gap and join up with the beginning of the icord edge where you started it.

It says: To close the gap, keep 2 remaining live stitches on the right needle. Using a dpn (I'm already using dpns) pick up the right "leg" of the 2 icord stitches, 1 row to the left of where the 2 stitches were cast on. Graft the stitches on each needle together with Kitchener stitch.

I know how to do Kitchener stitch. What I don't understand is the bit in bold. What does it mean by one row to the left? One column to the left? And if it's the right leg of two stitches, that must mean the two columns to the left, not just the one to the left?? How can a row be to the left? Rows are above and below each other, not to the left or right! Aargh!

Ha - I missed your post while I was busy typing out my plea, Flavia! I need explanations and a dunce's hat more than pompoms, I think .

I'm sorry I can't help @lazylinguist. Lovely fairisle on the cuff.
@lucysmam you really hate weaving in ends, don't you?

I think Pikachu's face is just perfect @FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack. I'm very curious what the pattern for your lace yoke jumper is.

My scarf is taking forever and a day. I think it might be ready for next winter. I've got another one to start for a present. I've had a little play with the wool and it's absolutely gorgeous and I am thinking about a fancier pattern. I've been eyeing one up that's paid for but worried I won't like it or understand it. Is anyone else like this about patterns? I often read a few options for a project and some of them I just don't like reading so don't choose those ones. Tricky if it's a paid one.

This is the lovely wool for the present scarf. It really holds its shape when you work it.

🤣@MerylSqueak it's most definitely not my favourite part of a project!

Sorry @lazylinguist! I mean to check how you were doing! That isn’t how I do it

Beautiful wool, Meryl.
I'm not a fan of weaving in ends either, lucysmam, but that's nothing compared with how much I hate sewing knitted pieces together! So glad this jumper is no-sew!

@lazylinguist sorry, that sounded really dismissive but I posted too soon! The browser is playing up and all jumpy so I've had to switch to an adblock.

I had a bash at it and tbh, I don't get it. I did take pics of my method though in case that's any help!

I get to the last two stitches, cast off one on them as normal by passing the yarn over to leave one.

Then I break the yarn to leave a tail, get a needle and pass it under the first Icord stitch from the outside of the stitch to the inside under both legs. Then from the inside of the work, pass the needle through the two legs of the last stitch that's on the right needle and pull tight.

But basically mess around until my sewn bits mimic the icord look. I did this in two colours, it's much less obvious in one!

Ok I've looked at a video of an applied icord bind-off now, and I think I get it! The way the woman on the video does the icord itself is a bit different to how it's done on the jumper pattern, so I'll do it the pattern way, but the video does show how the joining up bit works - phew!

It's Rococo by Sari Nordlund @MerylSqueak

www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rococo-pullover

I'm doing it in black so it's hard to see at night but I'm hoping the final effect is worth it! I'm also slightly concerned I should have gone up a size but we'll see. I could always go on a crash diet to save me ripping out

I tend to check the project notes on Ravelry of anyone who's made a paid pattern to see how they got on. Saying that, there's a few designers whose pattern writing style just doesn't work for me and I've been put off every buying from them again! What's the pattern you're looking at?