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Put it in your awesome poptab purse! http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-pop-tab-purse
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Fooley posted:If you click the link in the pattern, it looks like the whole point of the pattern is to find a use for those awful plastic bootleg slinkies people love to put in goodie bags. Sheesh, at least when it's a crappy slinky you can still play with it the way you're supposed to play with a slinky. (I hate slinkies because one made me fall down the stairs as a kid, stupid thing...)
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Feb 19, 2010 17:54
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No, no you can't. The drat thing is maybe an inch tall and good luck trying to get it to go down LEGO stairs, let alone regular ones. I am bitter.
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Feb 19, 2010 18:11
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Blue_monday posted:wandering: what kind of cast on do you use to teach? Long tail cast one. What I do is I make sure they have a nice, long tail and tell them to cast on until they run out of space or they run out of tail. Then I tell them to frog it all.  They hate me for it, but after that they can do the cast on blindfolded! Shnooks posted:In other news, what the gently caress is this pattern? http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/free-ufo-pattern Never before have I been happy over my lack of crochet skills.
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Feb 19, 2010 18:27
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I never knew people started learning with anything but a long-tail  Guess I should thank my lucky stars my aunt knew what she was doing
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Feb 19, 2010 19:14
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Charmmi posted:Put it in your awesome poptab purse! I need to make this and save it for when I'm 82 years old and on my 5th cat.
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Feb 19, 2010 21:13
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Wandering Knitter posted:Never before have I been happy over my lack of crochet skills. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/slinky-ball Gee, thanks grandma a slinky ball super duper! Actually, I'm forcing myself to learn to crochet but no, I will not make slinky balls. EVER.
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Feb 19, 2010 21:27
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Ozma posted:http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/slinky-ball That's...very..  Does the crochet thread know about this? And is there something as equally batshit insane on the knitting side?
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Feb 19, 2010 21:47
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Charmmi posted:Put it in your awesome poptab purse! Holy crap that made me laugh. Who knew there were so many projects with slinkies.
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Feb 20, 2010 14:08
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Oh my lord. Sorry to link another, but: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/all-in-one-outfit-w-vest-for-american-girl-doll ...I wasn't a particularly girly girl but when I dreamed of having an american doll, that was NOT what I had in mind.
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Feb 20, 2010 22:51
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You have to save up one hundred and forty pop tabs to make that gem. That's a lot of aspartame, 'cause you know Donna drinks Diet.
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Feb 21, 2010 07:15
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Donna drinks Tab to make her tab purses. You loving know it. Did you guys get the knitpicks today? Nice to see that hansi singh (sp)- maker of the loch ness, dumbo octopus, and anglerfish patterns- now has a book. Maybe that's old news to the rest of you, but I was pleasantly surprised. It actually had some feasible patterns elsewhere this time around, which is unique for me. The felted fruit purses were cute and I enjoyed the sock patterns.
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Feb 21, 2010 08:06
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Cleaning out my room yesterday I found a severed knitted bear head with no eyes, so I stuffed him, gave him buttons and sewed him up with a pin back. He looks ashamed to be alive. I still haven't got round to finishing the squid assembly. It feels like a waste of stuffing because I've done such a lovely job on the knitting and all its tentacles are "unique". 
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Feb 21, 2010 11:26
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I have to ask....why was there a severed bear head in your closet? for content: My wool from yarn.com should be coming soon. I'm going to do some nice fiddlehead mittens out of cascase 220 and robot mittens in malabrigo. I'm pretty excited. This will be the first time I've followed a colourwork pattern. I'm also going to actually make a gauge swatch! My lace stole is coming along nicely. I'm almost done 1 ball of yarn, which means I'll have to buy a second one soon, and once thats finished the stole should be finished. I'm pretty excited!
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Feb 21, 2010 17:52
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Blue_monday posted:I have to ask....why was there a severed bear head in your closet? It's a traditional housewarming gift where I come from. No really, I have no idea. I can only presume that at one point I was knitting a bear. A very small bear...
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Feb 21, 2010 18:05
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I'm digging the pin though! I'm in a knitting rut I think. I dont really like the fiber I have here and I have been unable to find a pattern to match up with what I have. As it stands i'm just playing around with some of the cotton I have and different dish cloth patterns, and learning how to read charts. I've got some sport weight orange wool that I really want to find a project for but so far I've got nothing.
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Feb 21, 2010 20:51
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madlilnerd posted:It's a traditional housewarming gift where I come from. Sell it on etsy as a voodoo ghost bear. I'm sure an asking price of $20.00 is perfectly reasonable.
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Feb 21, 2010 21:28
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Ozma posted:Sell it on etsy as a voodoo ghost bear. I'm sure an asking price of $20.00 is perfectly reasonable. I was thinking of making less shoddy, more appealing ones (maybe a panda...) and selling them for $3-$6 but now I don't want to  Although if I took your suggestion, it might end up on Regretsy and that's pretty much a guaranteed sale and $20. Hmmmm.
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Feb 21, 2010 23:55
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Just make sure to take a picture of it on a bright white background at an angle so you really can't see it clearly. Instant etsy money. 
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Feb 22, 2010 02:31
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Wow! I've been busy lately and havn't been checking this thread, so sorry for neglecting questions. Glow in the dark yarn!?!?!  I must see this!EVG posted:This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Any chance you have the pattern for a smaller size? I'd like to try this to use up 2 skeins of Vanna's Choice I bought on sale that it turns out I hate the feel of, but I'm pretty darn sure it's not enough. Also I have noooo idea where I'd put a squidly that big, but half the size is still large and perfect! I'm still considering whether or not to post that, as it what I make for friends/potentially sell. I'll think about it. madlilnerd posted:SQUIIIIID UPDAAAAAAATE I'm loving the tentacle updates. Yeah, it definitely starts to drag around tentacle 5. The pattern mistake is probably due to the fact that I'm terrible at math. Sorry about that! I'm also sorry about the vagueness of the last instructions there. I honestly had no clue how to describe what I did. But here's a pic if that will help. The best I can figure is I closed it like you would one of those bags that closes with a drawstring, then I knotted it really tightly. Maybe I should make a video or something while I close up the half-size one that I ought to be done with tomorrow evening. Sensitive squidlings might want to look away...  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. I can't wait to see finished squids!!! Blackish Sheep fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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. With the feeder tentacles, it says to decrease until you get 11sts and then KFB into every stitch so you have 24sts and then k1 KFB so you get 36sts. If you do it with 11sts, you get 22, not 24, so I missed that last decrease, leaving me with 12sts to increase into.
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Ozma posted:Awww. http://www.flickr.com/photos/72906716@N00/sets/72057594095330901/ If only there were patterns for these. Of course, I'd probably never finish one, they look amazingly tedious.
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that tiger looks REALLY good, even without the wacky violence part.
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Ozma posted:Awww. We should be friends  I have a whole collection of bizarre patterns and weird poo poo I've discovered online. Allow me to share some of my favorites:  Knitty: Housefrau  Knitted mustaches for every occasion Various weird toys, including dandylions, a resistor, capacitor, grass, toilet paper, among other things. Super cute.  Adorable Wild Thing sweater!!! And a couple things I've made: caaaaaaaaaaake  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image. Claude the lobster with a little scarf-thing  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Long tail cast one. What I do is I make sure they have a nice, long tail and tell them to cast on until they run out of space or they run out of tail. This is how I learned and I'm actually thankful for it. Knitting is a journey.
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I just bought the love bytes mitten pattern off of ravelry. It looks really simple and i've knitted some mittens before so I think i'll be alright. I've got the wool needed on the way (malabrigo) I forget which colours I chose right now but I think one of them was glazed carrot. I cant wait till the yarn getrs here and I can start :3
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Blackish Sheep posted:We should be friends Hey, one of my coworkers designed that! Anyone else doing Ravelympics? I'm pretty sure the yarn gods REALLY don't want me getting mine done in time; I've had 2-3 yarn tangle situations so bad scissors were the only way to salvage anything, ripped the project 4-5 times before deciding to switch to a new pattern and finally after one more ripping have just completed the ribbing portion of the Razor Cami. My boss, meanwhile just has to seam the Cowichan sweater she did in a knit-off against another girl at the store and still has ample time to do Sahara for her Olympics project. At this rate I'll probably not even cast on my Central Park Hoodie before warmer temperatures make it obsolete. This is more or less okay, though, because I am adoring the patterns from Louisa Harding's new books Belle and Bijoux. They're just so unapologetically girly and the yarn is lovely and affordable!
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Blackish Sheep posted:Various weird toys, including dandylions, a resistor, capacitor, grass, toilet paper, among other things. Super cute. Mochimochiland is great. I just did Hugs + Squoze, and I also bought the patterns for butterfull and sausage dogs.
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Bob Shadycharacter posted:Just, the groups. Search any goddamn topic in the world and there's a group of knitters devoted to it AND they have their own subforum. It's like a rabbit hole. SA: Like a rabbit hole.
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So I've got some mystery yarn here: That's a size 5 DPN next to it for scale. It's way thinner than any other yarn I have and I've got 2-3 other balls of it (much larger than the ones in the picture) and I'd like to know: 1) How to identify it and 2) what to do with it.
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Roflex posted:So I've got some mystery yarn here: Looks like fingering weight to me, but it's been a long time since I used any needle besides a 0 so I could be off. You can take a ruler and wrap the yarn around it to get the WPI (wraps per inch) and that will give you a good idea as to the weight. And once you know the weight you can search patterns on ravelry that are made with that weight! You can also measure a few yards and weigh it to get an idea of how much a yard weighs and then weigh the whole thing to get an idea how many yards you have. And if you want to know if it's wool or something else you could try burning a little of it or trying to felt a small bit of it.
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Take a little bit and burn it. If it looks melty, it's probably synthetic. If it turns to ash then probably a natural fiber. If it smells like burning hair it's probably wool, if it smells like burning paper then probably cotton. The felt test is good too, if it's an animal fiber it will felt easily, if cotton or acrylic then it will never felt.
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Charmmi posted:Take a little bit and burn it. If it looks melty, it's probably synthetic. If it turns to ash then probably a natural fiber. If it smells like burning hair it's probably wool, if it smells like burning paper then probably cotton. Unless it's superwash wool, possibly. Also some wool that's been bleached to be bright white won't felt anymore. Obviously it's not wight but I don't know if maybe sometimes they bleach wool to lighten it before dying it a lighter color.
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I only got into this business to make hippie hats, and hippie hats I shall make.  It was so much fun to make and I love the colors. I've been wearing it every day. And I finished it in one night, too! Ravelry link. Speaking of strange patterns, I eat a lot of apples, yet something tells me I'll never need an apple cozy.
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Hobo Camp posted:Speaking of strange patterns, I eat a lot of apples, yet something tells me I'll never need an apple cozy. But think of all those BRUISES!
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Hobo Camp posted:Speaking of strange patterns, I eat a lot of apples, yet something tells me I'll never need an apple cozy. I'm pretty drat sure every object in existence has a knitted cozy for it.
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Wandering Knitter posted:I'm pretty drat sure every object in existence has a knitted cozy for it. Like stethoscopes. But at least the apple cozy is cute. Edit: You know, I'm not all that surprised that there's a menstrual cup cozy either.
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Feb 25, 2010 23:49
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hollaback grandma posted:goddammit noro I'm going to marry noro when I grow up! Which reminds me, I have a ton of noro that I need to figure out something to do with it all. It can't all be scarves.
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I have a confession about Noro. I hate working with it. Well, I hate working with Kureyon. Maybe when I get around to that Silk Garden I have in my stash box I'll be happier with it. Someone promise me I'll like it better. I recently ended up with 5 skeins of Kureyon because I took an entrelac class at my local shop and my mom and her friends all decided they wanted to come too. So we get there and of course we have to buy the yarn for the class from the shop, so we all bought Kureyon because the colors are pretty (and it was the cheapest self-striping they had). Then when the class was over, they were all like "ok, this was fun but I'll never finish this and this yarn will go to waste, so here Fionnoulla, you take it." So I made an enlarged Booga bag out of it all. It came out beautiful and I love the bag, but I absolutely HATED actually knitting with Kureyon - knots and twisting and untwisting and sticks and leaves and poo poo just made it totally unpleasant. Plus, maybe I just got unlucky, but every single skein had at least 2 joins in it.
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