Support thread for Mumof2TeenBoys' and Expat's Blankets

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Following on from the terrible news of the loss of Mumof2TeenBoys' ds, a new Woolly Hugs project has been started and, as ever, MNers have stepped up to offer whatever little comfort we can to Mumof and her family. We also keep close in our thoughts Aillidh, the dd of expatinscotland, who died yesterday.

We've put together some general info mostly about knitting but with some crochet bits thrown in, which should get you started but please feel free to ask for any help - I'm not sure if the crocheters are going to set up a new support thread but their current one is found here.

Please dive in - we will inevitably end up talking bollocks rubbish at some point but all are welcome aboard.

I suspect I wouldn't find it easy

You do need to be able to do purl

and I was remiss and didn't teach you as I'd promised ages ago

We were too busy drinking

More woolly treasure arriving safely today, many thanks

IShallWearMidnight Beautiful blue textured knits, just lovely

PiggyPlumPie Gorgeoise snuggly blue textured knits

Piggy, we will make sure your cards get to the families safely, and thank you for mine X

Okay, so I have now posted the above in the right place

Lovely squares droitwich

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Don't make me Pretty

...didn't do any knitting though!

Got it out at one point, but somehow didn't get round to getting started

The and chatting won!

I'm sure we can blame blondes - not sure she knows which end of a knitting needle to hold although she certainly knows her way around a cork screw

Just checking in... my planned 'day to myself knitting' didn't pan out as I've come down with tonsilitis (boooo) so I spent most of my time in bed today (although I did manage to file my tax return in between ).

I tried crochet last week. My wool-hand little-and-the-one-next-to-it fingers cramped up in minutes. My tension went from good, to loose, to 'too tight to get the hook through'. My attempt at rows looked like a rhombus - no idea how I dropped stitches.

I think I will stick to knitting....

Trib, just realised I didn't reply to you...too busy battling with my tricksy cables/increases/decreases! I finally won and the finished square is rather lovely. I'll try and upload a pic so my lovely donor can see what I did with the yarn :)

I'm now trying to figure out how I can turn a square around a crochet 5 point star

Thank you neither

I wil hopefully finish my last square tomorrow whingey child permitting! Hoping to get one of the girls to post them for me BUTi must remember to sewends in this time Tribpot!!! Knit pro emailed me back asked for pics so I sent them some it's my birthday sat so guessing not getting knitprosprob maltesers and after eights as they are youngests favourite well done all on all those special squares I'm a bit jealous of some of the crochet ones but one day...........

I wil hopefully finish my last square tomorrow whingey child permitting! Hoping to get one of the girls to post them for me BUTi must remember to sewends in this time Tribpot!!! Knit pro emailed me back asked for pics so I sent them some it's my birthday sat so guessing not getting knitpros prob maltesers and after eights as they are youngests favourite well done all on all those special squares I'm a bit jealous of some of the crochet ones but one day...........I will meet crafty again and she can teach me x

No idea why that posted twice???

I thought I had a challenge for you this time Trib. But then I realised that I could just a) knit a smaller square and b) knit a shorter i-cord. And it'll all be fine.

Assuming I can knit an i-cord that is...

Oh, that's cute Minnie!

And yes, you can knit an icord. The 'i' is for idiot, you know .. (that's really true, not me being mean).

I can do icord! Proof the I stands for idiot :o

Ok quick knitting sort of question. Tis my birthday next week. I'm 21!

The girls at work have asked if I would like a knitting book from them. Which is closely, but they want me to tell them which one! So which one should I ask for? I've had a look at the ones on the blanket guide and the all look similar!

Closely? Lovely!

Right well let's start with which ones do you already have, Glaikit? Or is the answer 'none of them'?

That is correct Trib, none!

If you have a look in my library on Rav that'll get you started, I'm playing catch-up at work (well, at home) as I bunked off to the Royal Armouries this avo!

Ok. The 200 knitted blocks doesn't get the best reviews on amazon, so do you think a stitch library would be better? I can't follow charts very well, so would prefer written patterns. Knitting for dummies? Argh!

In better news, mum took the hint and I'm getting the knit pro set!

Oh. No not the cubics ones I have told my lot not to get them cos they keep breaking on me!!! I had a weird feeling they where gonna get set for my birthday on Saturday. Might just be me though that breaks them. I'm off to bed my dad would have been 80 today and it's a whole (long yr) since my dh had a tumour removed from his lung I'm in limbo at the minute and mum died 2.5 mths ago roll on sept 4th final results from ct then I hope!