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| Re: Stash [message #39967 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Tue, 01 March 2011 21:02   |
 libby.gorman
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Love all the supplies!
Ms. McKinley may be surrounded by enablers but I definitely agree with the tweet that said she was one, because my recent birthday present from my mom (at my request) was a trip to two yarn shops in the area to get supplies (without the two year old).
I just rolled some cotton yarn into a ball over the last two nights and am now ready to start a dishcloth project.
I also joined Ravelry because of this blog. The only problem now is the desire to photograph all my stuff to post on Ravelry without attendant time, since our computer uploads photos at the speed of cold molasses.
And every knitting post just makes it worse...except in a good way--is this what enabling feels like?
Libby
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| Re: Stash [message #39974 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 03:02 |
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Diane in MN
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It is really really easy to get a lot of yarn into the closet really really fast. There is a danger to this. I have just used Ravelry's wonderful cataloguing capability to get my stash organized and described. I found stuff I didn't remember buying--I have an excuse, since I bought it twenty-plus years ago--and then made the discovery that I had purchased 10 skeins of yarn, each a different color, and wound all of them into balls and labeled them A through J, obviously for a specific project, and I now have no damn idea what the project was because I didn't put a label in the bag. So I've spent more time than I should have done today, looking through all my stashed magazines to see if I could recognize the sweater that sparked the purchase. And the best I could come up with was a probability. Aaargh.
We never did find a Really Simple Top.
I'd suggest that you look for any of Vogue Knitting's Very Easy Very Vogue pattern books. They can be ordered from the VK web site, but since hardcover pattern books are expensive, I like to look at the patterns in them before shelling out the cash. But those patterns really are very easy, and the VK instructions are very good. You could also check the yarn manufacturer's web site--they might have free patterns to download.
In the course of skimming through twenty-odd years of magazines (as you might guess, most of them Vogue Knitting), I found this poem--Machinery Doesn't Answer Either, But You Aren't Married To It, by Ogden Nash--which I offer to both knitters and non-knitters. It contains the line "And she casts a lethal glance, as one who purls before swine." Gotta love it. 
I suppose every time he looks at me smile he thinks, another year at Oxford for Hagar! Yessssssss!
Can there be any doubt? Only if he's, say, buying a boat instead. 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| for the various knitters... [message #39975 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 03:28 |
Xyzzy
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I thought you might find this interesting -- another author I read posted quite recently about reading gloves she came up with for a friend:
Knit Reading Gloves - Devon Monk
Based on the past, she'll likely share the pattern if people ask her nicely. (She has some of her other patterns on her site, plus a gallery & posts that are fun even for non-knitters like me.)
We're told to take one day at a time, but I keep being ambushed by several of them at once.
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| Re: Stash [message #39977 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 05:43 |
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Just imagine me reading this post with a HUGE GRIN.
Your new yarn looks fabulous, and the tall-chats-up-random-folks lady was right: if you love it now and you don't buy it, someone else will get it and you won't be able to find it ever again. Such is the nature of beautiful yarn! It's what keeps yarn shops in business, I'm sure, and our....insulation insulating.
Besides, what if the unthinkable happens? WHAT IF SHEEP STOP MAKING WOOL?
Better prepare for that, unlikely as it may be.
(Actually, my first expedition into a real yarn shop, I bought a ton of this glorious royal blue 50/50 wool/silk and then was too intimidated to use it. ...And then they discontinued that line of yarn. The danger is real! Catastrophe could happen at any minute! (You've probably seen the yarn. I made it into the Owls sweater eventually. (Ravelery link. Sorry, non-Ravelers. Guess you'll just have to join!)))
Smooshes!
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| Re: Stash [message #39978 is a reply to message #39970 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 06:14 |
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(Well, actually it sometimes sits there and says "No!" to every suggestion timidly addressed to it.)
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Indeed. I have ...rather a lot of yarn that's doing that. *glances nervously over her shoulder at the Knitronomicorner*
But it TOLD me to BUY IT! So I did. It just won't tell me WHY! *wails*
Marion
Keeper of the Knitronomicon
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| Re: Stash [message #39989 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 11:27 |
Annagail
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So far I've managed to keep my stash extremely minimal mostly by being broke. The rule for me is that I have to knit all the present stash (or at least most of it) before I can contribute more to it.
At the moment I'm still working on the socks-from-hell (the thickest, warmest socks you will ever see, worsted weight knitted on size 0 needles, 100g of yarn per sock and OMG they take forever) and in the queue have (not in order) an armwarmer (which I have to frog and reknit- damn you, tension!), a scarf, another pair of socks, probably a pair of gloves (unless I can find another pattern that makes something that doesn't need to be washed on a regular basis, as the yarn in question is hand-wash only), and probably a couple other things I'm forgetting about. But no more buying yarn till those are DONE.
(Which means I have to find some serious time to knit, because I'm saving my spending money to try to go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival and...somehow yarn just finds its way into your hands at that sort of thing.)
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| Re: Stash [message #40001 is a reply to message #40000 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 14:57 |
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| Fiona wrote on Wed, 02 March 2011 14:48 |
(and then there was the moment of madness where I ended up ordering a spindle and some fibre to try spinning - Jodi has to take a certain amount of responsibility for this, because the moment of madness was inspired by her guest blog about spinning!!! So now I have a fibre stash as well as a yarn stash!!!)
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HURRAH!!!!!!
Smooshes!
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| Re: Stash [message #40006 is a reply to message #40005 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 16:47 |
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I'm JUST SAYING, but this wheel fits in a tote bag. *g*
(Though the direct drive isn't something I'd want. Lots of people like it and it sounds like an adorable portable wheel, but I'm fond of my Fricke -- which fits nicely in a corner if you have one, but yeah, I know we all don't.)
[Updated on: Wed, 02 March 2011 16:47]
Smooshes!
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| Re: Stash [message #40007 is a reply to message #40006 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 16:52 |
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| jmeadows wrote on Wed, 02 March 2011 21:47 |
I'm JUST SAYING, but this wheel fits in a tote bag. *g*
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*shoves fingers in ears and tries to ignore Jodi's silver-tongued attempts to corrupt!*
Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....
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| Re: Stash [message #40010 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Wed, 02 March 2011 17:39 |
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Dear gods the pull of knitting is strong. I was just in a craft store looking for supplies that I need for my current artistic crafties(you know, paints, pastels, pencils, paper, etc), and I went over to check out the needle point selection when I saw THE YARN. And I just started to wonder about knitting, and if it's as fun as my knitting friends seem to think it is, and how much time it would really take...
...when I suddenly realized the only reason I was even CONSIDERING it was because of all the recent talk about the fun of starting a new craft on this blog/forum. I thought of the PINK ROSE NEEDLES.
Knitting is obviously much more dangerous than I originally thought.
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| Re: Stash [message #40045 is a reply to message #40033 ] |
Thu, 03 March 2011 05:08 |
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| equus_peduus wrote on Wed, 02 March 2011 21:47 |
I had to join. And I want that sweater. :)
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You could make one. ;)
It's actually a super easy pattern, as long as you don't fear the cable.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Stash [message #40047 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Thu, 03 March 2011 06:00 |
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Marina
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Bamboo and birch are wonderfully soft. Bamboo/silk, bambo/cotton--as log as there's no wool, to which I am allergic, bamboo combos are lovely.
I am a teal woman--any bleens or grues are my shade and hue, along with winey reds, kelly/emerald/forest/spruce, silvery greys, metallic silver & copper, and all sorts of purples. Given my coloration, most browns, olive-to-chartreuse, and pastels need to be kept away from my face. Give me those saturated jewel tones!
Very few of the folk I chat up in stores to whom I give my email ever write. Darn it.
A. Marina Fournier
❦If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful ❧ William Morris❦
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| Re: Stash [message #40083 is a reply to message #40080 ] |
Fri, 04 March 2011 10:08 |
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HeiQ
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| Mrs Redboots wrote on Fri, 04 March 2011 05:49 |
Cables are far, far easier than lace! AND than colours, except plain stripes of course, which are the Next Thing you learn once you've mastered knit and purl and what the various permutations thereof produce. After that I'd say cables and Aran, and keep both lace and fair isle/jacquard/instarsia until last.
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I second this wholeheartedly. I was under the impression that cables are way more difficult than they are. My mom's favourite type of knitting is those intricate Finnish/Latvian /Russian-type colour patterns, and I love them too, so for my second knitting project ever, I decided to knit a pair of coloured mittens. I finished the project, with my second mitten being significantly larger than my first as I figured out how to relax my tension a bit and how to carry the secondary yarn around...
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| Re: Stash [message #40105 is a reply to message #39964 ] |
Sat, 05 March 2011 08:23 |
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Mrs Redboots
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That sort of thing is great fun to knit, but I still struggle with even tension. Mind you, blocking the finished piece does help.
Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
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