I'm going to learn how to spin! A lovely knitting friend sent me a drop spindle and a box full of rovings for Christmas. She'd actually started spinning it and her work was already on the spindle so it was really easy to keep it going from there. ...And then I went and did a little more reading and considered watching a few more videos about spinning yarn and thread and now I'm going, "Wait, I can't be doing this right yet. This seems too easy and I'm not cussing out the fibers." I'm pretty sure I'm not bothering at all to keep the same level of tension or twist as I go along, so that's probably part of it.. Does anyone have any (free, online) resources they'd recommend for spinning wool rovings?
I would. No use spending more time on something you'll never use, and it's not a mistake you'll be able to fix once you've finished. Time you spent on this one wasn't wasted because you learned stuff :) Edit: lol this sounds really condescending to me. Wasn't intentional!
i got more yarn because there was a sale at the store. All I remember (Its kinda almost 4am) is that there is Yak in there and it will be the warmest motherfuckin shoulder warmer thing ever.
So a while ago I received a squid in the mail, and this was actually a very good thing :) @IndigoRiffRaff makes v cuddly stuffed cephalopods, y'all Spoiler: Her name is Indigo because I am not creative
I return with specs and more brain as well as what i'm doing with my new yarn The brickred yarn is Lang Yarn's Odeon and it's 42% Mohair, 38% Acrylic, 20% Polyamide The dark brown is Lana Grossa' Yak Merino and it's 28% Baby Alpaca, 30% Virgin Wool, 20% Yak and 22% Polyamide I'm knitting a pretty gigantic loop shawl/cowl on gauge eight needles by basically doing a pretty broad rectangle and sewing the thing together when I'm finished I'll block the colors by going one entire ball of yarn until I run out and then switching to the other color. Additionally I knit everything the same direction except for three stitches the otehr direction each row, wandering one stitch further to the side with each row (it's supposed to make a diagonal line going across the scarf happen!) So since I close the loop "sideways" I'll end up with vertical stripes and a line of zigzag texture running up and down the entire round.
It mostly makes sense and it sounds really cool! By "the same direction" do you mean knitting vs purling?
Nah, you're fine, it wasn't condescending from my perspective! I've frogged it and started over (with a brief false start due to having forgotten that the cuff wants a k2p2 rib, instead of just knitting straight through; it explains why the edge of the cuff was curling a bit, though). It helps that I've got nothing at all to do today; the storm yesterday means that we're not going anywhere, so I can knit and watch episodes of The Great British Bake Off on youtube. I am keeping an eye on the cuff this time, though, to start with, and checking every five rows whether it's long enough for my tastes. Once it's long enough, I'll move into the thumb gusset.
yes i think I do! the problem here is that German knit vocabulary calls them right and left stitches with right being the one where the yarn is behind the needle and left being where it's in front of the needle!
Also I think I might try somethign for my next project to keep from losing motivatio halfway through: Every complicated part of knitted clothes (cuffs, sleeves, arm holes, collars) I am absolutely terrible at knitting but halfway decent at sewing so I might just faux-upcycle and basically knit basic shapes and then do all the complicated things in fabric. Has the additional value of resulting in FUN TEXTURE MIXING :D I got a shitton of fabric hoarded away and even some leather scraps so that might be a lot of fun!
Cotton yarn! DNA cabling! Seriously, Knitpicks Billow is just about the nicest thing I've ever knit with. Well, I haven't knit with very fancy stuff, but OH MY GOD this cotton is nice. And the reviewers were complaining about the thick-and-thin texture, but it doesn't bother me at all.
I KNIT MYSELF A HAT!! WITH MY HAT LOOM THING!! THIS IS THE FIRST IVE DONE FOR MYSELF!! AAAAAH!! :D :D :D :D :D pictures to come when it isnt 1am *heh*
Congrats, Imoyram! Glove is progressing nicely. I just finished binding off the ring finger, and things are fitting nicely so far. There's a couple spots where I think I might need to go back and crochet in some more material later (mostly just the crotch between the pinky and ring finger right now), and I'm not entirely happy with the fit around the spot where the pinky finger joins up with the rest of the palm (it's a little baggy) but I can fix that with a bit of thread and a needle afterwards if it's still weirdly baggy after it's been blocked. I'm wondering if the bagginess might be because I'm using dpns that are a size larger than the pattern calls for; the closest I have to the right size, though, are...I'm not actually entirely sure they're dpns? They're about twice as long as the Boye dpns I'm using right now, and they have blunt tips rather than pointed ones; for all I know, they're supposed to be stitch holders or something - I can knit with them, but it's more awkward than with the dpns I'm using now. (They were inherited out of a mystery bag of knitting supplies my mom and I picked up at a Value Village several years back.)
So, quick question. Does anyone here have experience with working on waste canvas? I want a silly transformers bag, so I'm doing a fairly sizeable (about six by nine inches) cross stitch using waste canvas over quilting-weight fabric. Most tutorials I saw for waste canvas were a lot smaller than this, and I'm wondering if doing a bigger project will make it difficult to pull out the threads at the end. If it does, I can pull them out before I fill in all the gaps, but I'm dreadfully attention deficit and easily distractible, and even towards the end, having the grid there would be a huge help for preventing mistakes. So I'm not sure what to do. Nobody I know irl has ever used this stuff, so has anyone on here?
The glove is progressing well! I've finished up the glove-bits proper, and have moved on to the mitten shell. I may need to frog a bit, though, or decrease faster (possibly frog back a bit and then decrease faster) because I forgot that the pattern was made by someone who has, comparatively, giant hands. And I kinda want the shell to fit properly. So the glove saga may continue onwards for a bit. The really annoying bit is that it's looking like this won't finish up the leftover yarn at all.
