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TauntTheOctopi, I really like that too, great job!  I've been in a knitting funk since finishing up my monster scarf a few months ago. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that can do a flurry of knitting and then get kinda blase about it. But I recently thought 'hey dumbass, you need a hat!' and instead of paying for one, I'm gunna make one! Knitting is so exciting like that  I like the idea of learning one new thing with each project if possible, so cables here I come! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/frivol looks so cute, but I'm just going to do the seamed version for now since it's my first try. So to everyone who said back in October they're easier than they look, I'm holding you to it 
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That's the way I've been knitting so far. I only started in Feb last year. My mum taught me ribbing straight away, saying if I was comfortable doing both I could pretty much do anything I wanted. Moved on to hats in the round, then 2 colours, then socks and I'm trying colour work in the round now. I think cables will be my next project too. Having read through detailed instructions I think I can probably do it! Can as use cocktail sticks as stitch holders? I used them on my socks...
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Jan 23, 2010 13:30
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You can use pretty much whatever you want in lieu of an actual cable needle, just so long as you can hold your stitches to the front or back of your work and then slip them back onto the right needle. Sometimes if I'm lazy I'll use a DPN of the right size so I can actually knit the stitches right off it without slipping them back. My friend's got a pretty good tutorial for cables on her blog if anyone's trying to tackle them for the first time.
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Jan 23, 2010 17:31
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Drei posted:You can use pretty much whatever you want in lieu of an actual cable needle, just so long as you can hold your stitches to the front or back of your work and then slip them back onto the right needle. Sometimes if I'm lazy I'll use a DPN of the right size so I can actually knit the stitches right off it without slipping them back. Yeah, I just knit a scarf with cabling going both ways, and I only used a DPN and I was fine.
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Jan 23, 2010 21:24
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Halp! At work, on the counter we have a basket full of Malabrigo Baby Lace. So I bought some. Ravelry doesn't even have baby lace listed. What the hell is the difference between baby lace and regular lace? I want to make this scarf but I don't want the thread to be so small that it looks like a ton of holes on my size 4 needles.
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Ok so I feel like a crazy person. I had been working on a scarf in stockinette a few months back and just recently picked it up. Except now while I am knitting one row, purling one row, its coming out garter. I've unraveled the recent work and started over again like five times and it's coming out garter every time. I figured I'd try just knitting in garter for a while and it looks the exact same as when I think I'm doing stockinette. I've never had this happen before, though I admit I am as amateur a knitter as can be, but what the heck am I doing wrong?
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Jan 26, 2010 05:15
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Awesomonster posted:Ok so I feel like a crazy person. I had been working on a scarf in stockinette a few months back and just recently picked it up. Except now while I am knitting one row, purling one row, its coming out garter. I've unraveled the recent work and started over again like five times and it's coming out garter every time. I figured I'd try just knitting in garter for a while and it looks the exact same as when I think I'm doing stockinette. I've never had this happen before, though I admit I am as amateur a knitter as can be, but what the heck am I doing wrong? I'm super duper new to knitting, but maybe you're doing something weird like not turning your work and knitting backwards at the end of a row? That would make knit 1 row, purl 1 row look like garter instead of stockinette, right?
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Jan 26, 2010 05:28
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I thought that was it, and it could be I suppose, but I'm not knitting any differently than I normally do and I've never had a problem doing stockinette before. Also, I just started a new scarf with the same yarn and its still happening. How would that even happen, though? Not turning my work, I mean?
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Jan 26, 2010 06:06
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Awesomonster posted:I thought that was it, and it could be I suppose, but I'm not knitting any differently than I normally do and I've never had a problem doing stockinette before. Also, I just started a new scarf with the same yarn and its still happening. How would that even happen, though? Not turning my work, I mean? Can you take a picture for us?
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Jan 26, 2010 06:18
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Are you knitting a tubular scarf on circular needles or dpns? That would make a difference...
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Jan 26, 2010 06:25
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Wandering Knitter posted:Can you take a picture for us? Yeah, I'll see if I can get a good picture of it as soon as I can. The yarn is fuzzy so it might be hard to see the stitches, but I'll see what I can do. Also, no, I'm not knitting in the round. Just two regular 6.5mm needles. Edit: Well balls, my camera battery's dead. I'll definitely get a picture tomorrow. In the mean time I'll try to solve this mystery on my own. Awesomonster fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jan 26, 2010 |
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Jan 26, 2010 06:50
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Are you knitting through the back loop and creating a twisted stitch maybe? If you get enough twisted stitches, I guess it could look ridgy, especially on a fuzzy yarn?
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Jan 26, 2010 09:08
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Shnooks posted:Halp! Fear not, gentle knitter! I bring aid!: The Malabrigo lace listed on Ravelry is the Malabrigo baby lace, and it is a fingering weight. The "baby" does not refer to the weight, but rather of the age of the Merino sheep from which the wool comes. It comes from baby sheep. (Which I suppose is much softer?) Hope this helps.
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I'm stuck. Again. I totally suck at knitting unless I know 100% what I'm doing... Anyway - I'm knitting my brother this hat - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jacques-cousteau-hat - and I'm stuck on the decreases. The pattern says 'The decreases are KKS (Knit-knit-slip= knit two stitches and then slip the first of these two over the second). First decrease round: Work 31 stitches in rib pattern, then KKS, place marker, knit 28/33 s in rib pattern, KKS, place marker, knit 33 s in rib pattern, KKS, place marker, knit 33 in rib pattern, KKS, place marker, purl 2. The following decrease rows: *Work to two stitches of marker, KKS, repeat from *.' The way I'm doing it my decreases look weird, and not like they will spiral like on the pictures. I've un-knitted 5 rows or 140 stitches 3 times now cos I can't get it looking right. This is what mine is looking like (The W being the decrease and the V and - being knit and purl. I am currently camera-less.) v v v v v w v -- v v v v w vvv -- v v v w -- vvv -- v v w vv -- vvv -- v w - vvv -- vvv -- w v -- vvv -- vvv -- vvv -- vvv -- vvv -- I'm knitting the rows above my decreases. I'm going to end up with huge knit sections after my decreases. The pictures of the finished ones dont look like that! Am I meant to be carrying on the 3k2p rib pattern after the decrease? If so how? I keep trying different things and I keep getting confused! 
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Jan 26, 2010 15:19
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Scooty Puff Jr. posted:Fear not, gentle knitter! I bring aid!: Yes! This helps! That's what I thought, but then I started knitting and I was like what the hell this is so tiny. Can you tell I've never knit anything lace before?
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Jan 26, 2010 15:38
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Shnooks posted:Halp! There's one or two of those scarves done in lace weight on Ravelry and they still look pretty good, I think. Or you could knit it holding a strand of heavier weight yarn too.
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Klams Jam posted:I'm stuck. Again. I totally suck at knitting unless I know 100% what I'm doing... I've never posted in this thread before but I'll give it a go. You do continue in the rib pattern after the decrease. The spirals are created by pulling the yarn. When you decrease, you've created a space where there used to be two stitches but now there's only one. In lace knitting, you'd leave that space as a hole, but in regular knitting you just keep knitting in pattern. The next stitch after the decrease is pulled into the space created by the decrease, which gradually creates a spiral as the stitches are pulled to fill in the spaces made in each row. So anyway, to continue the pattern in the first round of decreases, you knit the 31 stitches in pattern, so your 31st stitch should be a knit stitch (because you've done 6 complete repeats of the ribbing pattern and you're starting the next repeat, which starts with a knit stitch). Then you do your decrease, where you knit two stitches and slip one over the other. This means your next stitch after the decrease should be a purl stitch. This is because you are still knitting in pattern, so you've just knit three stitches (even though you now only have two) and now you need to purl two stitches because your pattern is K3, P2. If you're in doubt as to what to knit, look at the stitches in the row below what you're doing. if they are purl stitches, then purl and vice versa. So next you would knit 33 stitches which consists of the two purls after the decrease, plus 6 complete repeats of the ribbing pattern, and then one knit stitch. Decrease and keep going the same way each time. In the rows after this first one, knit in pattern until you have one stitch before the decrease you did in the row before, so this first time that would be 30 stitches in (I think). Do your decrease with these two stitches, then continue working in pattern, starting with purl stitches. This will gradually pull the purl stitches into the spiral you see in the pattern picture. I hope that wasn't too confusing, I've gotta go out for a little, but I can do up a bit of a mockup picture later if you are like me and get confused easily by written instructions instead of pictures. Or maybe someone else has a clearer explanation .
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Jan 26, 2010 16:36
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Shnooks posted:Yes! This helps! That's what I thought, but then I started knitting and I was like what the hell this is so tiny. Malabrigo lace is definitely a LACE weight yarn, thinner than fingering weight. I'd knit it on size twos myself, although you can do whatever you want! I just like lace to look a little denser in the stockinette portions. But if you do it on 2s you might want to add pattern repeats, otherwise it'd be pretty small probably.
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Jan 26, 2010 17:15
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I think I have it... I always purl 2 after the decrease? I just get easily confused in general! But I think what you said is what I thought it should be... I just couldn't work out how!
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Jan 26, 2010 17:23
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Klams Jam posted:I think I have it... I always purl 2 after the decrease? I just get easily confused in general! But I think what you said is what I thought it should be... I just couldn't work out how! Yeah, just continue that purl rib up the hat by purling two after the decrease. I guess I could have just said that but I think I was kind of trying to explain it to myself as well.
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Posting for the gf: I just finished a scarf this weekend (woohoo), however I have a concern. I am concerned that my scarf, especially the weaved-in ends, will come apart when I put it in the washing machine and/or hand wash it. Has this ever been a problem for your projects? Do the weaved-in ends come apart or stick out? I tend to weave my ends in a U-shape a couple times and not in a straight line just to ensure that the ends will not unravel. Are there any tips or advice on weaving the loose ends to make sure that this doesn’t become a problem? Thanks!
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Jan 26, 2010 18:40
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Bob Shadycharacter posted:Malabrigo lace is definitely a LACE weight yarn, thinner than fingering weight. I'd knit it on size twos myself, although you can do whatever you want! I just like lace to look a little denser in the stockinette portions. But if you do it on 2s you might want to add pattern repeats, otherwise it'd be pretty small probably. UGH. My bad. Brain was on fire.
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Jan 26, 2010 18:59
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I think I have a new love in my life. I can't stop knitting fingerless mittens. I have four different knitting projects going on at any given time -- a hat, a squishy animal, fingerless mittens, and a scarf. I'm trying to get as much done as possible for a silent auction two weeks from now that's going to benefit the Haiti earthquake relief effort, and holy hell I'm up to my ears in yarn and I don't know how I'll finish all this poo poo in time and not go stark raving mad. It's a fun ride though.
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I am still confused by my hat. I am blatantly 'special'. Stupid decreases. I think I'm just going to carry on regardless and pretend that I see no mistakes. My brother wont know the difference. I'll be lucky if I get a thank you!
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Klams Jam posted:I am still confused by my hat. I am blatantly 'special'. Stupid decreases. I think I'm just going to carry on regardless and pretend that I see no mistakes. My brother wont know the difference. I'll be lucky if I get a thank you! Try running a lifeline before you start the decreases, then just knit it as best as you can but give it some time. I knit a WWII watchcap for my husband's friend and it honestly did not look right AT ALL for most of the decreasing. I was convinced I had totally hosed it all up but I got to the point where I didn't care anymore and just wanted to finish, so I kept going anyway (my plan was to inform him it was SUPPOSED to look that way and he just didn't understand art or something). Then all of the sudden I looked at it and it was perfect and exactly how it was supposed to be. You need enough on there to really make the pattern appear. If you keep working and then get toward the real end of it and it still looks all hosed, you can always rip it out to your lifeline and try again.
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Same thing happened with a ribbed hat I knitted for my husband. I read the pattern wrong (as I am prone to do), so when I started decreasing, it just looked wrong and nothing at all like the picture on Ravelry. I finished it and gave it to him anyway, and I said something along the lines of "I'm sorry if it looks all hosed up. If you want, I'll frog and reknit it". He looked at it and honestly had no idea how I had messed it up, and said it looked great. A knitter's eyes are going to catch more mistakes than a non-knitters eyes, and especially if you are talking about males here. I do like the lifeline suggestion though. I need to start doing that myself.
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Ma_NiC posted:A knitter's eyes are going to catch more mistakes than a non-knitters eyes, and especially if you are talking about males here. As a male knitter I still see every mistake I make when I see people wear my hats .Also as far as whoever's hat looking messed up, maybej ust keep going like you said? Ribbing always looks screwed up to me until I get 5-10 rows in.
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Awesomonster posted:I thought that was it, and it could be I suppose, but I'm not knitting any differently than I normally do and I've never had a problem doing stockinette before. Also, I just started a new scarf with the same yarn and its still happening. How would that even happen, though? Not turning my work, I mean? I just had this problem even though I know how to knit stockinette, I had the yarn facing the wrong way when I was purling (behind the needle instead of in front) and I made a garter stitch  Derp. It's dumb but a possibility.
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Captain Stinkybutt posted:I just had this problem even though I know how to knit stockinette, I had the yarn facing the wrong way when I was purling (behind the needle instead of in front) and I made a garter stitch Haha, you know what, that's probably exactly what I've been doing without even noticing  Next time I'm knitting I'll look and see, but that seems to make the most sense. I am a pretty big doof, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Fooley posted:As a male knitter I still see every mistake I make when I see people wear my hats That's because you made it, though. Most men aren't going to be looking at anything that close and let's face it, most men don't knit. I certainly think it's awesome that you knit though
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Awesomonster posted:Haha, you know what, that's probably exactly what I've been doing without even noticing Welcome to the land of feeling dumb. I went over to my other knitty friend and said SHOW ME HOW TO PURL AGAIN and I watched her do it and went "gently caress me I'm an idiot."
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So I've finally decided to tackle socks and am on the heel flap right now. I'm following the Yarn Harlot's "Good Plain Sock" pattern from her book, and the instructions say to work the heel for 28 rows "or until the flap is a square". Well, 28 rows later and the length of my heel flap is a little more than half the width. Should I just keep on knitting back and forth until the dimensions are one to one, or are all the extra rows going to mess me up later? I think part of the problem may be that I'm using a 9" circular instead of DPNs so working back and forth on that is likely tightening the stitches. Should I get the DPNs and redo the heel flap instead? VV Thanks, I feel less worried now. Drei fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jan 29, 2010 |
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Drei posted:So I've finally decided to tackle socks and am on the heel flap right now. I'm following the Yarn Harlot's "Good Plain Sock" pattern from her book, and the instructions say to work the heel for 28 rows "or until the flap is a square". Well, 28 rows later and the length of my heel flap is a little more than half the width. Should I just keep on knitting back and forth until the dimensions are one to one, or are all the extra rows going to mess me up later? I usually do mine about 2 1/4 inches. I don't think it has to be a square, the important thing is that it's the right length for your heel - try holding it up to your actual foot to get an idea. Mine are definitely usually more rectangular. Once you're done turning the heel you will pick up stitches along each side of the flap, so however long it is is however many stitches you'll pick up, and then you'll decrease those away.
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I just want to say that thanks to the yarn trading thread in SA-Mart I've become completely addicted to Lamb's Pride yarn. I've already used up the few balls I've gotten along with another two I picked up on ebay. God drat it why can't I find this in my state? 
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I have made many things since I last spoke to you lovely knitters!   A felted purse from SnB without the silly I-Cord and attached pouch. Derp.  A pair of cellphone cozies for myself and my boyfriend who decided he wanted one after I made mine! And I looooove this from Breean Miller's Neck Truffle pattern on Ravelry :    PUMPIN' 'EM OUT HECK YEAH So much fun.
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Dancingthroughlife posted:I really like those Captain Stinkybutt Your name make me I made a blanket out of Cascade 220 superwash and really liked it. It's not as soft as cashmere or anything but I liked it a lot, not to mention the price was pretty good considering.
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This thread inspired me to try knitting! I started a few months ago and have been messing around with lots of different types of stitches to get comfortable with the basic motions of knit and purl and have finally almost finished my first trial project. I'm working on a Slouch Hat (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-slouch-hat) and I'm confused about the final instructions. Here's what it looks like so far with my cheapo yarn: The pattern called for a provisional cast on, but said I could use a regular cast on if I chose and would be OK with having a seam. (That's why both edges appear to be bound off) For now, that's fine. Because of that, I don't have any live stitches to pull the hat together. That's fine too, because I'll just weave together the sides with a needle. What I don't understand is how to pull the top/circle together with these instructions: "Run the yarn thru the stitch bumps at the very rim of the top of the hat and synch together." Am I just supposed to run the yarn through those bumps and then pull it together as tightly as I can? I would think that'd make something of a clump at the base. The sample photo in the pattern looks more like it's flat.
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Is it possible to post the photo from the pattern? The ones on Ravelry don't really show that part so I can't really guess at how it SHOULD look.
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This was included in the pattern. I assume since I'm not reposting the directions in whole, it's OK to share this. I hope?
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