It's Crochet, Knit & Natter 10: New Year, New Yarn, New Thread!

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Time for a new thread for all the lovely yarn crafters!

Old thread here: http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/artsandcrafts/4557189-its-crochet-knit-natter-9-so-many-projects-so-little-time-oh-well-i-almost-made-it-rhymee_

Oh dear, @MerylSqueak - I can only tell you that yes, I would take it back. It would annoy me too much!

Oh dear... I suspect your daughter is right

Grrr

Have you had this happen before? Is it a prominent mistake or one that’s going to bug you forever more, or one where you’ll forget about it and nobody will see it?

(I tend to “meh” or cheating by stitching over if it’s too far down.)

I just ripped back. I was fine with it until my daughter said that, which is why I carried on knitting. When I said I couldn't be bothered, she said, shocked, 'That doesn't sound like you!'

I didn't stand a chance really after that.

Done, then! Hope it doesn’t take too long or hurt your arm more redoing it all.

I just ration myself to two rows a day. They do have about 220 stitches each but, still, it's slow going.

That’s sensible, especially with such long rows. I have to ration a very complicated cable jumper I’m making - it’s not the cable so much as that it’s in 5ply, on 3.25mm needles, which is very hard on my hands. Blasted thing’s given me a ganglion cyst on my knuckle! I’ve rationed it into hibernation atm and started a simple intarsia jumper in Fiddlesticks 8ply (so soft) on 4.5mm needles - my favourite and usual combination, and it knits up so fast I can get in 20 rows a day if I’m not too distracted by certain websites … 😜

Oh no, @Catsmere ! I got a ganglion on my wrist from spinning when I was new to doing it and was doing loads to practise. It went away after a while.

I too am doing a slightly complicated cable pattern - a jumper for dd. I've got into the swing of it now and am really enjoying it, but I'm going very slowly!

Pic of my progress so far. The colour doesn't show up well at all - it's actually a dark bottle green, not that sludgy colour it looks in the photo!

I usually enjoy cables a lot too, @Fairislefandango and yes, one does have to take them slowly! Cables are pretty much my default setting for knitting, lol.

That jumper’s gorgeous. Those very complex cable sections are the same sort as on the one I’m currently not doing, but you have more of them to deal with.

I would never have guessed that’s green. Granted I have my screen set to warm colour, but it looks a deep reddish brown, no sludge tones or bottle green for that matter!

I’ve reached the part of the intarsia where I have half a dozen balls of wool to control … and to prevent the supurrvisors from flinging onto the floor!

Aarrgghh! The gauge for my top is still throwing me! I have put the yarn and hook back in their box in disgrace 🤣

Do any of you have any lace weight yarn & a 3.5mm hook handy? It's held double & the pattern says...

"Gauge knitted in round (I think the writer is not English & it's definitely a crochet pattern)

10x10cm in pattern stitch, 10 sts and 8 rows"

The pattern stitch is lemon peel so surely if I crochet 8 rounds of 10 stitches I'm doing it right?? It just does NOT give me 10x10cm - even done flat 🤔

Oooh, actually, I may just have had a 💡 moment...the single & double crochet that make the stitch, count as one? Maybe it can come out of the box and play once I finish painting King Charles & Camilla for work!

Never mind, it's staying in the box until the designer replies to my email...in the video I've just watched she's doing flohdc & blohdc so not lemon peel 🙄 It's annoying me.

Ooh, @lucysmam that does sound extremely confusing!

The last one that confused me like this was the Taylor Swift inspired cardi I made dd1, a couple of years ago now! I'll have another crack at it later maybe...or maybe just wing it 🤷‍♀️

I actually never used to be that keen on knitting cables, @Catsmere. I found they messed with my tension - or rather, I wasn't very good at adapting my tension to them. They've grown on me recently though!

It's a bit of a labour of love making this jumper for dd. It's going to take me ages! She'll be off to university in the autumn and it will be nice to send her off with a cosy, homemade jumper to wear. She's very specific about what she likes wearing, and the cream cable jumper I recently gave her (that I'd made for myself years ago but was always a bit small) is the only jumper she'll wear! She chose this pattern and the yarn colour.

I’m glad the pattern and colour are your DD’s choice, @Fairislefandango , it would be awful to put in all that work (and money … knitting is heejus expensive) and have her not like it!

I never even think about tension for the most part. It all evens out when the thing is blocked. I certainly hope that applies with the one I’m doing now; the intarsia section is finished at last and it’s just dropped stitches for a ladder effect and up to the neckline.

Just tried the hexagon cardi I am making for DD on her to check the fit. Possibly should have checked before I finished off the ribbed cuffs and sewed in my ends.

Cropped sleeves are really in this year, right????

Ive finally finished all the squares for DS afghan, i have pinched blossom stitch from @12roundsofwhitelowfatspread kal
Blocked them all today and need to decide how to join them and then going to line it.

Squares from my afghan

Beautiful work!

Thank you@Catsmere , Now the bit i hate, joining them together!

@bruffin I hear you, I knitted a bedspread all in one piece to avoid seaming! 😄 I don’t mind with jumpers, but not something that big.

Looks fantastic @bruffin ! Just blocking my squares too procrastinating about sewing them up

That’s a lovely cable pattern @Fairislefandango! I find it so frustrating sometimes trying to get the camera to show the right colour!

@LancreWowhawk I think cropped everything is in this year looking at what young people are wearing, If I had the abs I’d join in but I think I’ll stick to full length

Those look great @bruffin! I love the colour combinations in your first pic.

I’ve now ripped back my cardigan so many times I’ve inserted a life line to make it easier to pick up the stitches next time. I don’t know what it is about this pattern but I’m only keeping knitting it out of stubbornness now. It really shouldn’t be as much of a trial as I’m making it…