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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1462 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
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 Mrs Redboots
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I've been knitting for simply ever, but started to do it really seriously when my daughter was born. I crochet a lot, too, but find knitting easier. And have done some spinning in my time (but no longer have the time for it, alas).
I'm not on Ravelry - I seriously haven't the time for any more forums (fora?) in my life, including this one!
This Christmas, I am knitting these bags for people, which will be filled with a variety of goodies, including my home-made soap and washcloths like these. Think I might just have to do a Chalice one....
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1464 is a reply to message #1447 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 08:09 |
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Susan from Athens
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| livvispatula wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 08:58 |
I've been knitting since I was nine-ish and crocheting since...three, four years ago? I love making socks and hats; basically anything small, quick, not too fiddly, and utterly lacking in cables. I'll do sweaters only if I *really* love the pattern, and I'm never making a blanket again.
Recently I've been "forced" to watch Firefly by a friend, and I was immediately inspired to recreate Jayne's hat for him. The only problem is, I don't know how to make pom poms. Do any of you know how to do it?
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Yes, it is very easy. Use a soft fibre for a very caressable pom-pom. On a doubled up piece of light card draw two concentric circles. Cut around the edge and cut out the inner circle so you have two rings. The size of the outer circle determines the size of the pompom and the size of the inner circle the density and amount of yarn. If you want a slight pompom make the inner circle small. If you want a super dense one make it big.
Loop your yarn around the ring to cover the entire surface of the ring (as neatly as possible)(I start at 12 o'clock and go clockwise, but my sister says I am too fussy with these things). Then keep going around until you fill the entire hole up.
With a pair of sharp scissors cut into the outer edge of this bloated doughnut shape. You want to cut between the two layers of the card. So think of your pre-pom-pom as Saturn you want to slice along the plane of Saturn's rings, but only the outer layer. Once you reveal the "card sandwich" and be careful here not to remove the cards (I am mixing up my metaphors horribly) you use a piece of yarn to tie around the central core of the pom-pom. You tie it as tightly as you can.
Then you remove the card, fluff up the pom-pom and do any trimming necessary. I hope that makes sense.
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“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1469 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 09:46 |
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Becky in VT
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I simply cannot believe I'm the first to find this, but it's not anywhere else in the forums (that I can find)
Yarn Harlot was in Boston yesterday, and someone brought in a knitted cable pattern representation of change ringing:
They called it Cambridge Major.
I actually think this picture helps me understand change ringing, maybe a little...
Oh, and I've never introduced myself forum-wise. I'm Becky, I've been sewing since I was a kid, but I never learned to knit (although I wanted to, I had no one to teach me) So in college I made a knitting friend teach me and it's been going strong ever since! I taught myself to spin as well, but I can knit on the bus, so that's my major craft these days.
~Becky
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1473 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 11:17 |
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I just typed this all out and my computer ate it! Ahhhhhh!
I love this "thread"! Very warm and fuzzy!
I've been doing fibre things since I was 7. Not going to tell you how many years that is! I can:
Knit
Sew
cross stitch
embroider
spin and
crochet (but all my squares come out as trapezoids or parallellograms!)
I am currently working on a Christmas stocking in cross stitch, and a knitted lacey sweater in blue bamboo wool (blue makes me happy!)
I just finished a hat in grey wool that my daughter spun on a drop spindle. I feel safe in saying it has character.
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1475 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 11:27 |
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Never mind, I found it.
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1476 is a reply to message #1474 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 11:49 |
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Becky in VT
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In case anyone else has this problem, just click on the link and scroll down, it's there (the green cabled scarfy thing)
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"You belong somewhere you feel free"
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Knitting, Veggies, Chickens, and more
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1480 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 13:02 |
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i am currently in the process of making a quilt for my sister and her husband for Christmas. i worked out the design and chose the colors, now i just have to buy the materials to make it.hopefully will have enough money by end of the month.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1522 is a reply to message #1447 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 21:35 |
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| livvispatula wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 01:58 |
Recently I've been "forced" to watch Firefly by a friend, and I was immediately inspired to recreate Jayne's hat for him. The only problem is, I don't know how to make pom poms. Do any of you know how to do it?
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Yay Firefly! A friend of mine with a new baby has finally watched Firefly, and now I'm dying to make a Jayne hat for her offspring XD
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1540 is a reply to message #1513 ] |
Fri, 17 October 2008 23:44 |
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| Lissla Lissar wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 20:10 |
I've done fine jewelry chainmail, too, which kind of counts as knitting.
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Ooh! I keep thinking about getting into chainmail.... though I really wish I could make gloves. Generally, I think it's best that I don't, though. I REALLY don't need more to do!
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1542 is a reply to message #1540 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 01:23 |
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I've wanted to get into making chainmail for a while - I've made byzantine chain bracelets before and it was tonnes of fun*, but I am simply staggered by the expense of enough wire to make something out of chainmail...
*though also quite a bit confusing - it requires a lot of focus and memory to get which link goes where and then where it connects...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1546 is a reply to message #1524 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 03:31 |
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| livvispatula wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 21:44 |
| Charismitaine wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 21:35 |
| livvispatula wrote on Fri, 17 October 2008 01:58 |
Recently I've been "forced" to watch Firefly by a friend, and I was immediately inspired to recreate Jayne's hat for him. The only problem is, I don't know how to make pom poms. Do any of you know how to do it?
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Yay Firefly! A friend of mine with a new baby has finally watched Firefly, and now I'm dying to make a Jayne hat for her offspring XD
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You have to post pictures when you get it done! Baby + Jayne hat = win!
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I will! XD It'll be a little while, because I have to learn how, of course--I haven't attempted knitting in the round yet *fears lack of knitting mojo*
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1573 is a reply to message #1556 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 13:40 |
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| livvispatula wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 09:09 |
| Charismitaine wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 03:31 |
I will! XD It'll be a little while, because I have to learn how, of course--I haven't attempted knitting in the round yet *fears lack of knitting mojo*
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Aww, knitting in the round isn't that bad. Especially if you're doing something as small as a baby hat. The secret is to make sure you don't drop the needles you're not currently working with - I used to put rubber bands on the ends when I was first learning - and to make sure the stitches at the ends of the needles are tight enough that they stay next to each other instead of leaving a gap that looks like you dropped a stitch. A little gap is normal, though.
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I have a set of interchangeable connected needles (lots of different sizes and various lengths of connectors for them). They make knitting in the round a breeze (trying to do it with normal needles scared me...)
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1598 is a reply to message #1580 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 15:29 |
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| livvispatula wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 14:17 |
| Mori-neko wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 13:40 |
I have a set of interchangeable connected needles (lots of different sizes and various lengths of connectors for them). They make knitting in the round a breeze (trying to do it with normal needles scared me...)
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But you can't do really small stuff like gloves and socks and baby hats with those. Can you?
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You can! My set goes from like a 3 to an 11, and there're connectors from very short to very long. For some things you want double pointed needles, but for pretty much anything else you can use the connected ones. And when you're not working, you can pull them together so you're less likely to lose stitches.
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1602 is a reply to message #1598 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 16:25 |
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livvispatula
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| Mori-neko wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 15:29 |
| livvispatula wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 14:17 |
| Mori-neko wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 13:40 |
I have a set of interchangeable connected needles (lots of different sizes and various lengths of connectors for them). They make knitting in the round a breeze (trying to do it with normal needles scared me...)
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But you can't do really small stuff like gloves and socks and baby hats with those. Can you?
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You can! My set goes from like a 3 to an 11, and there're connectors from very short to very long. For some things you want double pointed needles, but for pretty much anything else you can use the connected ones. And when you're not working, you can pull them together so you're less likely to lose stitches.
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I have a set, but they go from 5 to 15. But I always use 1s or 2s for socks because I knit too loosely.
Hey, does anyone else have this problem or know how I can fix it? When I'm doing stockinette stitch, my knit and purl rows sort of bunch up in pairs. I think I must have the tension different when I'm knitting as opposed to purling but it *feels* the same....
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1603 is a reply to message #1571 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 17:16 |
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| livvispatula wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 12:50 |
Here we go...
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It looks awesome!!
Smooshes!
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1619 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 20:28 |
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Charismitaine and I went to the local Yarn Shop today! So Much Pretty! And it was all so soft! We both ended up with two skeins of fine Alpaca yarn - hers are green and mine a lovely shade of brown... We had dragged along her sister and two other friends and so were forced to leave pretty quickly but all the ladies who worked in the yarn shop were so nice and friendly I could easily have stayed for hours just chatting and watching them knit and stroking my alpaca wool...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1639 is a reply to message #1630 ] |
Sat, 18 October 2008 23:33 |
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A Knitted Tea Set! That sounds fabulous! My little cousin has a tea-party theme going to her room and I've been thinking of knitting her something... May I ask where you got your pattern for it?
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1691 is a reply to message #1645 ] |
Sun, 19 October 2008 19:07 |
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Adorable! (But is there any way to shrink the photo a bit? It's doing wonky things to my screen....)
Local Yarn Shop = fabulous--but I'm so glad I waited to go until I had money o.0 And now I will have to wait until I have money again to go again XD
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1695 is a reply to message #1693 ] |
Sun, 19 October 2008 19:31 |
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| KitF wrote on Sun, 19 October 2008 19:19 |
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Adorable! (But is there any way to shrink the photo a bit? It's doing wonky things to my screen....)
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Thank you. (And to tell you the truth, I don't know. Moderators? Is there some way I can make that photo smaller?)
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Upload a smaller file size? That's all I got.
Or try uploading to Flickr/Photobucket and using the image tool that asks you to put in the URL - and use the medium size when you grab the URL.
Smooshes!
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1710 is a reply to message #1542 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 00:07 |
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| Reading Angel wrote on Sat, 18 October 2008 18:23 |
I've wanted to get into making chainmail for a while - I've made byzantine chain bracelets before and it was tonnes of fun*, but I am simply staggered by the expense of enough wire to make something out of chainmail...
*though also quite a bit confusing - it requires a lot of focus and memory to get which link goes where and then where it connects...
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I have a friend (also in the SCA) who plays with chain mail and he made me a chain mail bra - which except for being a bit cold, is actually suprisingly comfortable. And not at all see thru!
I can share the pic if anyone is interested.
He also gave me lessons (and made me the cutest starter kit for my bday) on 4 link, 6 link, box, byzantine and something else - yes it is really hard concentration. I found it really hard on the wrists as well.
If you want links then this is a great place to go (and they ship world wide)
http://theringlord.com/cart/shopdisplaycategories.asp?id=1&a mp;cat=Rings
They do really cool aluminium rings in lots of pretty colours - its light so easy to work and wear (as well as the other kinds of rings)
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1711 is a reply to message #1710 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 00:25 |
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Now I'm lamenting buying so much yarn yesterday...
And of course, I'd have the same issue with a chainmail bra as I do with ones with underwires - in the event that my heart stops and I need a defibrillator I would be completely exposed as they attempt to save my life, since the electric current and the metal in the garment are not conducive to the defibrillator working properly...
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"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: One for all the fibercrafters! [message #1714 is a reply to message #1062 ] |
Mon, 20 October 2008 01:07 |
librarykat
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I have tried and failed a number of times to learn knitting. My mother, who knits and crochets and was a professional dressmaker and pattern drafter, tried to teach me. She was more successful in teaching me to sew and embroider, so that is what I do. I'm a crazy person and prefer to handstitch everything rather than use a sewing machine, however. I have sewn several dresses by hand, including a 1920s flapper dress of satin. I do better with origami and jewelry making, and make earrings with miniature origami designs, I also make tiny handbound books into earrings. I handbind the books myself, using Japanese washi paper for the covers.
I do have a couple pairs of knitting needles and some yarn, and may probably attempt to knit again. It's just that you can't take knitting needles on board aircraft anymore, and I always found that cross stitching and such helps pass the time in airports and on flights. It's very irksome that I can't do this anymore.
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