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You could consider adding the design with duplicate stitch after the fact.
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Thanks, both options look like they will work for me. I’ll try the intarsia in the round and see how it goes.
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There's also this video about Strandtarsia, a combo of stranded and intarsia, that involves slipping stitches and knitting backward, the end result is basically the same I think but you might like looking at different techniques. https://youtu.be/KWBGmps0bN8
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 I made a hat. Some of malabrigo's yarns are really hard to take a decent photo of when you have a crappy phone. Pattern is https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/move-on-up
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Aug 22, 2018 02:33
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Which colourway is that? Hat looks great, good work.
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Aug 22, 2018 13:32
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It's Mattise Blue, probably my favorite that they have.
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Aug 22, 2018 18:54
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Go me. I wondered if it was. I bought two skeins on Rios when it came out here, it and Teal Feather are two of my favourite cws anywhere.
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Aug 23, 2018 04:55
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That's a lovely looking hat!
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Aug 23, 2018 05:34
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  What the fade
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Oh, I love those colors so much. And a great texture change too, what's that pattern? 
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Lorryn posted:
Oh that's awesome! Nice of you to give your kitty a blanket too. 
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Aug 24, 2018 14:59
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Thanks! The pattern is what the fade?! by Andrea Mowry
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Finally finished my Ella in time for fall. I love Lene Holme Samsøe's patterns. I've used Drops Nepal for this, it's going to be really warm and snuggly! 
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Aug 26, 2018 18:25
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Gorgeous! Love that yoke.
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That’s a drat nice sweater. And a beautiful shawl, good cat and beautiful hat. I just finished a scarf for my kid’s soccer team. I wanted it warm, did not have the patience to double knit it and so I went with k2 p2. I kinda winged it on some of the letters while on vacation drinking beers but I think it turned out ok. 
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Love that sweater!! And a good scarf, if you fudged the letters I can't tell
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Does anyone have any tips for making a pair of knitted slippers non-skid? I've got two pairs of knit slippers that I want to send out as gifts, but I'm stumped as to the best way to make them safe to wear. They're already done, so I can't use the premade soles. Any advice?
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A piece of leather on the bottom, or sheepskin that you could sew or glue on? Otherwise people have had success with dotting puff paint on the bottom to give some grip. Personally I haven't had issues with mine and I didn't put anything on the soles, but ymmv.
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Latex paint on the soles.
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It's cooling off and I went and made a hat about it:  Used Berroco Ultra Alpaca, pattern is https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pinnate-hat
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That's a great hat! I finished my seaweed scarf, and need to grab some pictures. Started in on a baby blanket for a friend. Still figuring out what to do with this Caron One pound of yarn. Maybe a mermaid tail blanket, but I'm so ready to be done with my rainbow blanket.
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  The first few of what will probably be many star ornaments. These still need to be stuffed but they’re blocked http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/scintillation
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Lorryn posted:
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My kids are really into a video game called Splatoon so I made them squid hats. Here's the second one I made. They came out great!
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Aaaa those are great, would wear.
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:Recently picked knitting back up after a long hiatus and here's what I've made in the last month and a half: Did you guys see this one? https://m.imgur.com/r/knitting/BFDONrQ
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That dude is my hero. I'm about to pull the trigger on level 1 of the Knitters Guild Association master course (just waiting for my sign on). Anybody done this or know someone who's done this?
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YMMV but it seems like paying a bunch of money to have tiny martinets crab and nitpick about your paperwork and bullshit hoop-jumping more than actual knitting. Here's the official Ravelry group including discussion from/for people going through it https://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-knitting-guild-association-tkga
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It sounds like the directions are super extensive and not the clearest. Going through the Level 1 thread, people with questions include scientists, technical writers, someone with her own copy of the Chicago Manual, etc. -- they don't sound generally clueless. I personally feel like I would do better focusing on knitting and new techniques rather than writing book reports, citing sources for swatches, buying exactly the right size of box to mail things in, only being allowed to use pastels with a super strict interpretation of pastel -- you name it -- and having to redo the whole thing if I miss a bullshit hoop. And I mean, I was an English major and I'm now a professional copy editor. I'm not intimidated; I'm all about bibliography formatting and precision. But the degree to which they take it seems more like powertripping than anything useful. If you're set on it, I would be curious to hear your thoughts. I obv have a strong impression, but I don't know personally anyone who's done it. Anne Whateley fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Oct 28, 2018 |
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Anne Whateley posted:It sounds like the directions are super extensive and not the clearest. Going through the Level 1 thread, people with questions include scientists, technical writers, someone with her own copy of the Chicago Manual, etc. -- they don't sound generally clueless. I genuinely appreciate your perspective. It does seem like they're doing a bit of gate keeping or trying to pretend it's like a college program which has me like  but if I truly got some academic knowledge from it, I'd be happy.I can't tell if it's stupid nitpicky bullshit or if they're just particular sperglords like me, tbh. My people tend to take that poo poo to a weird, unpleasant level. Yesterday I checked out of the thread after hitting the 'which yarn to use, which needles to use, how to get gauge' freakouts because I think these are things any knitter who is attempting a master class should know. There is particularly one poster in there who I think asks stupid questions and shits it up with feelings which makes it much harder for me to sort tl;dr from material errors/omissions. Granted, I don't have the material so I can't tell for certain what's going on, and from at least a couple answered questions it does seem like the material is not perfect (10/10 would do as instructed and cite it because I'm that kind of person). I don't love that they seem to leave pastel open to interpretation, but if you asked me about that green and rose yarn in that one post, I'd say def no on the rose and maybe on the green depending on lighting (looked neon to me). I was confused about the question from the scientist and you'd know more about this than me, so I'll ask you: the bib layout the chair posted looked like bog standard APA (idk why they're using APA but w/e). Is there a situation in APA or Chicago in which you would not cite or note inline? It occurs to me they might be making their own weird mishmash style and I'll probably ask them about it once I slog through this thing. For now I'm definitely leaning toward doing it unless I find something that's just a glaring problem, but I'm glad you pointed this out because it gives me a better idea what to expect. Looking through the co-chair's blog, I actually know how to do most of if not all the techniques in L1, I mainly need critique on the finished product and would benefit from some structure in learning what I don't know how to do yet. I'm not really an executive functioning kind of person so I just learn techniques all scattershot and I think there are some holes. Plus, I intentionally haven't worked since 2015 so it might not hurt to be able to say 'yeah I did some study and look what I got' instead of being like 'yeah, you know, I knitted a bunch and learned a bunch of cool stuff'. In the interests of not making GBS threads up the thread entirely and because I love this thing so far:   It's based on Spring in September because I've never knit a sweater before and needed a place to start and uses Dither for the color work. It is huge because I am huge right now and wanted a long, tunic-like sweater with a cowl, and this season seems to be all about crop tops and vee necks which boggles my mind. It's a drop shoulder sweater and the original has the front and back ribbed at the top, then sewn together which is very cute but will not keep me warm, so I'm going to do either a three needle bind off or kitchener/other grafting for the shoulder seam and pick up for the cowl along the neckline. It's Caron One Pound because it's cheap, really soft, and knits up fast af. IDK if I can block out the tension problems in some of the stranded section, but I'll try. BonerGhost fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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Good luck! I don't think I'm anywhere near that sort of awesome at knitting. But I do love getting Simply Knitting in the mail monthly, and I think I am gonna make a sea horse cushion soon.
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ButtsFromTheSky posted:What I've read about TKGA and the grading is that if you're already an intermediate to advanced knitter then the program gives you structure to learn things and take your knitting skills to the next level. I've considered doing it because I like having a goal to work toward and accomplish, and I think it would be neat to reexamine a lot of what I think I know about knitting. There's a podcast out there called Mastering the Knits that chronicles two women going through level 1. It's not the best podcast but it does give some insight into the process as they're doing it which I found interesting. Thanks for the tip and the input, I might have to see if they have some transcripts somewhere (I do not do podcasts). Aerofallosov posted:Good luck! I don't think I'm anywhere near that sort of awesome at knitting. I'd never consider myself awesome at knitting but people seem to be impressed with the crap I make, and I figure I'm at least competent after 15 years of it.
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Anyone tried out the new knitting app, Making Things? I've seen a few comments from people that made me wonder if it was really that great, and I didn't like my read-through of their ToS. But could go either way.
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Good news folks, if you're in the market for unusably small amounts of yarn, Dollarama has you covered!! (in case you can't tell from the photo, these balls were about 2 inches tall)
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Might get a dishcloth out of it, I guess? 
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